Space

The total national space program over the next five years would cost $25-30 billion and the civilian space budget will increase $4-5 billion a year by Fiscal 1963 under President Kennedy following his decision to race Russians to the Moon.

Satellite maker OHB says it is targeting a jump in bookings as it set a financial target of securing “sustainable” order intake of over €2 billion in 2026.

China has disclosed plans to ramp up the pace of Long March 6 flights in 2025 in conjunction with the rocket’s first launch this year.

The world is headed for a period of launcher abundance as the New Glenn expands rocket choice in the heavy-lift segment.

“It’s time to be able to move through space at will and to be able to defend ourselves when we are attacked,” ULA CEO Tory Bruno says.

The company created fireworks with its latest Starship flight test—just not the celebratory kind, as rocket debris caused commercial flight diversions.

“We are at an inflection point,” says Kelli Kedis Ogborn, vice president of Space Commerce and Entrepreneurship at the Space Foundation.

The fuel was subjected to a rigorous series of cyclic thermal evaluations.

Callisto is a joint program with German aerospace research center DLR and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency.

The company, which specializes in on-orbit servicing, said the latest effort will draw on its Rendezvous and Proximity Operations technology.

The signing took place in Espoo, Finland, at Aalto University’s Winter Satellite Workshop 2025.

Petro could fill the role until Trump’s nominee for NASA administrator, billionaire Jarad Isaacman, achieves U.S. Senate confirmation.

The company, which has its origins in India, says its hyperspectral Earth observation satellites will have a 5-m resolution.

If NASA puts all its resources into sending a U.S. person planting the U.S. flag on Mars, the game changes for the European, CNES President Lionel Suchet says.

Thales Alenia Space and Hispasat have linked up to develop a payload that can enable more secure ways to pass data using quantum key distribution.

In his inaugural address, President Donald Trump called for the U.S. to bring astronauts to the moon and "plant the stars and stripes on the planet Mars."

The rivalry between the U.S. and China in space is set to intensify in 2025 as they increase rocket launches and satellite constellation construction.

Several commercial airline flights in the northern Caribbean briefly entered holding patterns due to debris from the test flight of SpaceX’s Starship rocket.

Ispace of Japan’s commercial “Resilience” lunar lander has completed its initial orbital maneuver, setting it on a course toward the Moon.

SpaceX is pressing ahead with plans for another Starship test flight as it investigates the loss of the upper stage during the most recent development mission.

Moon dust and other characteristics of the lunar environment are due for closer inspection if two newly launched landers can make it safely to the lunar surface.

DARPA and NASA’s nuclear thermal propulsion project will miss its scheduled 2027 testing time frame, as its development has proven trickier than anticipated.

Survivability and increased standoff head the list of priorities for long-term Air Force modernization.

SpaceX’s Starship program saw mixed results on Jan. 16: tthe second recovery of the booster.but the loss of the first upgraded Block 2 upper-stage variant.

Derek Tournear, the director of the U.S. Space Development Agency (SDA), has been placed on administrative leave, “pending the results of an investigation.”