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Autonomy improves performance of Aerospace cubesat optical links

by Debra WernerAugust 12, 2025August 7, 2025

Rising investments create new opportunities for smallsat manufacturers in Europe. Credit: SpaceNews illustration; Aerospace Corp

Civil, Commercial, News

For Europe’s smallsat builders, new opportunities but also new problems

by Jeff FoustAugust 11, 2025August 11, 2025

Civil, Commercial, News

NASA to assess LeoLabs’ data for orbital collision avoidance

by Sandra ErwinAugust 11, 2025August 10, 2025

First DiskSats to take flight in 2025

by Debra WernerAugust 11, 2025August 6, 2025

Crew-10 splashdown

Crew-10 splashes down off California coast

by Jeff FoustAugust 9, 2025August 9, 2025

Fission surface power

Civil, News, Policy & Politics

Industry supports NASA plans to accelerate work on lunar nuclear reactors

by Jeff FoustAugust 8, 2025August 8, 2025

Civil, Military, News

NASA Marshall offers dual-use tech for Golden Dome missile defense program

by Sandra ErwinAugust 8, 2025August 8, 2025

China’s Lanyue crewed lunar lander undergoing a landing and ascent test at the extraterrestrial celestial body landing test facility in Huailai, Hebei Province, on August 6, 2025. The lander is suspended from a large steel tower structure and firing its thrusters, producing a yellow exhaust plume characteristic of hypergolic propellants.

China completes landing and takeoff test for crewed moon lander

by Andrew JonesAugust 7, 2025August 7, 2025

Which space race "firsts" are worth achieving? Credit: NASA

Civil, From the Magazine, Opinion

The US can get to the moon first — and still lose

by Dan RobitzskiAugust 7, 2025August 5, 2025

Galileo’s sketches of the Moon, “Sidereus Nuncius,” circa 1610. Credit: Public domain

NASA’s moment is now: breaking decades of strategic whiplash

by Dan RobitzskiAugust 7, 2025August 6, 2025