In his speech 8 Judith Collins at the New Zealand Aerospace Summit in October, the country's space minister, She said, that the government is making progress in achieving its goals, defined a year earlier in the space strategy , which involves doubling the size of the country's space and advanced aviation sectors to 2030 year. During the period of 2020 by 2024 year, the size of New Zealand's space industry grew from 1,75 […]

The American company Momentus announced the conclusion of two new contracts with NASA at a total cost 7,6 millions of dollars for transportation of experimental useful loads for testing of space production technologies and advanced traffic systems on board Vigoride apparatus. The first contract, rated at 5,1 a million dollars, is funded through the Flight Opportunities program and involves the COSMIC demonstration experiment (Commercial Orbital System […]

German Aerospace Center (DLR) successfully launched the experimental apparatus atheat from the landfill Andai (Andøya, Norway), which became an important step in the development of reusable space transport technologies. A rocket launched 6 October 2025 year Fr. 10:45 local time, made a flight lasting about four minutes and during two of them it exceeded Mach speed 9 — indicators, commensurate with […]

Raytheon (RTX Corporation Unit) and Anduril Industries successfully conducted a static firing test of an advanced solid fuel missile within a contract with the Director (Air Force Research Laboratory, Munitions Directorate). This stage is regarded as an important step towards expanding US production capacity production capacity and strengthening the country's defense-industrial base. The tested installation was based on […]

By the end of 2025 Italy will open one of the largest and most modern European satellite production centers on the outskirts of Rome. The project is worth €100 million, implemented in partnership between the Italian Space Agency (BUT) and Thales Alenia Space — a joint venture between Leonardo and Thales, - aims to strengthen Europe's position in the global space industry and reduce lag […]

US space forces (U.S. Space Force) concluded a contract with the Californian company Muon Space for the sum 44,6 million dollars to demonstrate an orbital satellite system, able to perform environmental and military monitoring at the same time. The contract was concluded under the Small Business Innovation Research program (SBIR) Phase 3 in Other Transaction Authority format (OTA) — the mechanism, which allows the government to leverage private technology […]

Capsule, that goes down, American reusable New Shepard rocket on Wednesday after a suborbital commercial flight with a crew in six tourists successfully landed at Texas West, reported Blue Origin Development Company. The NS-36 crew included a Kazakhstan media, which became the first Kazakhstan, space; The businessman in the field of franchising Jeff Eljin, engineer […]

According to the results of calculations of software and hardware complexes of the Center for Space Observations (city. Zhytomyr) National Center for Management and Testing Space Means of the State Space Agency of Ukraine (Further - CCC NCUVKZ DCA) Sich-2-1 ceased to exist in dense layers of atmosphere. According to the results of the CCCs of NCUSUKZ, DCA Sich-2-1 entered dense layers of the atmosphere (100 km) 08.10.2025 about 22:22:02 (UTC) at the point […]

Astroscale U.S. in partnership with the Goddard Space Flight Center, completed a four-week series of tests as part of the Approach and Maneuvering Technology Validation Program (RPO). Testing took place in a specialized Servicing Technology Center (STC) NASA and became part of a five-year agreement under the Space Act Agreement program (WEATHER). The purpose of the campaign is to verify the critical stages of interaction of space vehicles in the immediate vicinity, […]

Australian researchers from RMIT University proved, that bacteria useful to humans can survive real space trials: rocket launch, several minutes of microgravity and hard braking during reentry. Within suborbital flight on the two-stage SubOrbital Express rocket 3 — M15 Bacillus subtilis spores were accelerated to ≈13g, endured ~6 min of microgravity at an altitude of approx 257 km and […]

08 October 2025 year Fr. 03:54 (UTC) from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, USA, with the help of the "Falcon" launch vehicle 9 Block 5 ”was launched 28 US spacecraft "Starlink Group 11-17". Satellites "Starlink v2" – these are larger and more powerful communication satellites of SpaceX. They weigh approx 750 kg and have a design with two solar panels to enlarge […]

Mercury Systems and Nightwing have entered into a cooperation agreement, aimed at improving the cyber resilience of Mercury hardware solutions using Nightwing technologies. The partnership involves the creation of pre-integrated cyber security and anti-intrusion tools, which will ensure the integrity of systems throughout the entire life cycle. Combining Nightwing's expertise in US military and intelligence missions with Mercury's hardware platforms aims to […]

The American company Cubic Defense is expanding its presence in the market of military satellite communication systems, introducing a new family of Vector terminals — flat-panel antennas with electronic scanning, able to work through different orbital groupings and networks. The development is carried out in cooperation with the Information Directorate of the Research Laboratory of the US Air Force (Affl) within the multi-year Halo-Enabled Resilient Mesh program, aimed at creating sustainable […]

07 October 2025 year Fr. 06:46 (UTC) from Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA, with the help of the "Falcon" launch vehicle 9 Block 5 ”was launched 28 US spacecraft "Starlink Group 10-59". Satellites "Starlink v2" – these are larger and more powerful communication satellites of SpaceX. They weigh approx 750 kg and have a design with two solar panels to increase the number […]

The Galileo system uses ground-based booster stations (ULS) to ensure accurate navigation of users around the world. These stations transmit the necessary data to the satellites, including information for calculating orbits and correcting clocks. Traditionally, such messages are transmitted using dish antennas, however, recently at the site of the European Space Agency (THIS) in Red, which is headquartered at the von Karmann Institute of Hydrodynamics, tested a new type of terrestrial antenna […]

Two computer engineering students at the University of Pittsburgh, Diccia and Nishal Harel, entered history, becoming the first undergraduate students, which deployed their own applications on the satellite, which is in geostationary orbit at high altitude 35 786 km above the ground. The project was implemented as part of a partnership between the NSF SHREC Center for High-Performance and Sustainable Space Computing and Lockheed Martin, which […]

US-based Firefly Aerospace has announced its intention to acquire defense contractor SciTec for approx $855 millions. The agreement provides $300 million in cash and $555 million in Firefly shares. Expected, that the deal will be completed to the end 2025 year after receiving all necessary regulatory approvals. The acquisition opens Firefly's entry into the defense technology market, where the company plans to expand […]

A new deep space antenna has been opened in the small town of New Norcia in western Australia, which will help scientists in the study of the universe. European Space Agency (THIS) has officially launched its world's fourth antenna for communication with distant spacecraft. New Norcia station 3 (Nno-3) became the second on this site. The height of the antenna is 40 meters, and the weight 700 tons. […]

The American company EchoStar announced, that has met all the necessary regulatory requirements to retain rights to global S-band spectrum, which it is selling to SpaceX as part of the deal for more than 17 billions of dollars. The key stage was the successful completion of the “Bringing Back Into Use” procedure (BBIU), which is administered by the International Telecommunication Union (THAT) - UN structure, which controls the use of radio frequencies in […]

The U.S. Space Force has chosen SpaceX to perform five of the nation's seven most important defense launches, scheduled for 2026 The financial year. The assignments were announced by the Space Systems Command as part of the National Security Space Launch program (NSSL) Phase 3 Lane 2 — a multi-billion dollar contract, which covers complex military missions to 2029 year. The total cost of the program is estimated at […]