Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 22, 2025
NASA's Langley Research Center has begun a new series of plume surface interaction tests aimed at improving understanding of how rocket exhaust interacts with planetary surfaces during landing and ascent operations, a critical factor for future missions to the Moon and beyond. When spacecraft descend toward the lunar surface, high velocity exhaust plumes from descent engines can erode soil

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 19, 2025
The Southwest Research Institute-led Ultraviolet Spectrograph (UVS) aboard NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft has obtained a key dataset on the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, which in July became the third officially recognized interstellar object to enter the solar system. UVS observed the comet during a period when Mars- and Earth-based facilities could not monitor it because of viewing constraint

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 17, 2025
Eutelsat Network Solutions and Intellian Technologies have entered a strategic partnership under which Eutelsat Network Solutions will manage the global launch and availability of Intellian Technologies' OW7MP Manpack satellite communications user terminal on the Eutelsat OneWeb low Earth orbit network. Eutelsat Network Solutions is a wholly owned independent U.S. proxy company and subsidi

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 17, 2025
After less than a year in orbit, NASA's Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere (PUNCH) mission, built and led by Southwest Research Institute, is returning wide-field images that place the Sun's activity in the broader context of the inner solar system while tracking comets and major space weather events as they move outward from the Sun. SwRI's Dr. Craig DeForest outlined the mis

New NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman said he wants NASA to move faster on programs such as Artemis but acknowledged he needs time to get up to speed on NASA’s activities.

Rocket Lab successfully launched a Japanese radar imaging satellite Dec.

Blue Origin flew its final New Shepard suborbital mission of the year Dec.

L3Harris, Lockheed Martin, Rocket Lab and Northrop Grumman won contracts to build 72 satellites

Hungarian communications provider 4iG has agreed to invest $100 million in U.S.