Year in images 2025

Our year through the lens: a selection of our favourite images for 2025

Image: Euclid image of galaxy NGC 646

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

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
Globalstar (NASDAQ: GSAT) and Skydio have completed a joint technology trial that demonstrated Skydio X10 drone operations over Globalstar's licensed Band n53 spectrum and the company's XCOM RAN private 5G platform for public safety applications. The companies structured the trial to assess Band n53 and XCOM RAN as an alternative to Wi-Fi and public cellular networks for command, control,

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 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 17, 2025
Leonardo DRS, Inc. (NASDAQ: DRS) has completed the first on-orbit test of its multi-channel software-defined radio (SDR) with integrated advanced cryptography, demonstrating secure satellite data transport for U.S. military users at the tactical edge. The eXtended Crypto Module3-Space (XCM3-Space) adapts the company's next-generation crypto and multi-channel SDR architecture for use in spa

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 22, 2025
The search for evidence of past or present life on Mars should be the highest scientific priority for the first human missions to the planet, according to a new report from the National Academies of Sciences Engineering and Medicine that assesses long term goals for crewed exploration. The report concludes that human explorers offer scientific capabilities that cannot be replicated by robo