Curiosity Blog, Sols 4750-4762: See You on the Other Side of the SunWritten by Lucy Thompson, Planetary Scientist and APXS team member, University of New Brunswick, Canada Earth planning date: Monday, Dec. 22, 2025 As we all prepare for the holiday season here on Earth, we have been planning a few last activities before Curiosity and the team of scientists and engineers take a well-deserved, extended break. […]
Tory Bruno Leaves ULA, John Elbon Takes Over As Interim CEOThe owners of the United Launch Alliance rocket company announced today that CEO Tory Bruno has left the company to pursue another opportunity. In the surprise statement, Lockheed Martin and […]
Sentinels in the Sky: 50 Years of GOES Satellite ObservationsIntroduction In an era where satellite observations of Earth are commonplace, it’s easy to forget that only a few decades ago, the amount of information available about the state of Earth’s environment was limited; observations were infrequent and data were sparsely located. As far back as the late 1950s, there were primitive numerical weather prediction […]
Tory Bruno Steps Down as ULA CEO following impressive tenureUnited Launch Alliance (ULA), jointly owned by Boeing and Lockheed Martin, announced today that President… The post Tory Bruno Steps Down as ULA CEO following impressive tenure appeared first on NASASpaceFlight.com.
Tory Bruno steps down as President, CEO of ULAThe announcement was made by Robert Lightfoot, the ULA Lockheed Martin Board Chair, in a statement on Monday. The board now begins a search for his permanent replacement.
NASA Kennedy Top 20 Stories of 2025Teams at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida spent 2025 preparing the launch vehicle and its powerhouse SLS (Space Launch System) rocket to launch four astronauts around the Moon for Artemis II in early 2026. The center also celebrated milestones by conducting science experiments at the International Space Station to studying the Sun’s solar wind […]
NASA Armstrong Advances Flight Research and Innovation in 2025In 2025, NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, advanced work across aeronautics, Earth science, exploration technologies, and emerging aviation systems, reinforcing its role as one of the agency’s primary test sites for aeronautics research. From early concept evaluations to full flight test campaigns, teams enhanced measurement tools, refined safety systems, and generated data […]
Desert Works Propulsion expands U.S. ion propulsion capability through domestic manufacturing partnership and test capacity growthNew Mexico — December 22, 2025 — Desert Works Propulsion (DWP) today announced the expansion of its domestic electric propulsion development and testing capabilities to address growing demand for advanced […] The post Desert Works Propulsion expands U.S. ion propulsion capability through domestic manufacturing partnership and test capacity growth appeared first on SpaceNews.
Hungary’s 4iG to Invest $100 Million in Axiom SpaceBudapest-based 4iG Space and Defence (4iG SDT) has committed to investing $100 million in US space infrastructure company Axiom Space. In early October, 4iG SDT and Axiom Space signed a preliminary, non-binding commitment letter to pursue a $100 million equity investment in the US space infrastructure company. At the time, 4iG SDT explained that the […] The post Hungary’s 4iG to Invest $100 Million in Axiom Space appeared first on European Spaceflight.
Europa Clipper spectrograph tracks interstellar comet 3I ATLASLos 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
Clues to the migration path of hot Jupiters in their orbitsTokyo, Japan (SPX) Dec 16, 2025 The first exoplanet discovered in 1995 was a hot Jupiter, a Jupiter mass planet orbiting its star every few days. Today, models indicate that hot Jupiters form far from their stars, similar to Jupiter in the Solar System, and later move inward. Two main migration channels are considered: high-eccentricity migration, in which gravitational perturbations excite the orbit before tidal forces circul
Proba-3 mission closes gap in inner solar corona monitoringBerlin, Germany (SPX) Dec 19, 2025 Proba-3 has spent its first year in orbit generating more than 50 artificial solar eclipses, giving scientists sustained access to the inner solar corona that previously could only be studied intermittently during brief total eclipses on Earth. The two-satellite ESA mission is designed to supply the missing observations between the solar disc and the well-studied outer corona, and recent data co
Astronauts, launch teams practice Artemis 2 countdownThe run-through simulated day-of-launch activities, included suit up, ingress into the Orion spacecraft and a countdown that stopped just shy of T-0.
NASA Meets New Administrator Jared IsaacmanOne day after being sworn in as NASA Administrator, Jared Isaacman held a Town Hall meeting with the NASA workforce to introduce himself and answer questions. He praised President Trump’s […]
First Wheelchair User Flies to SpaceThe first wheelchair user flew into space today on Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket. Michi Benthaus, who was injured in a mountain biking accident in 2018, achieved her dream of […]
Redwire Tapped to Provide Docking Mechanisms for Nyx Earth CapsuleThe Exploration Company has awarded Redwire a contract to provide two International Berthing and Docking Mechanisms (IBDM) for its Nyx cargo spacecraft. Developed by QinetiQ Space under a European Space Agency contract awarded in 2014, the International Berthing and Docking Mechanism was designed as a standardised interface to support docking and berthing for the next […] The post Redwire Tapped to Provide Docking Mechanisms for Nyx Earth Capsule appeared first on European Spaceflight.
Wind-Sculpted Landscapes: Investigating the Martian Megaripple ‘Hazyview’Written by Noah Martin, Ph.D. student and Candice Bedford, Research Scientist at Purdue University While much of Perseverance’s work focuses on ancient rocks that record Mars’ long-lost rivers and lakes, megaripples offer a rare opportunity to examine processes that are still shaping the surface today. Megaripples are sand ripples up to 2 meters (about 6.5 […]
Space Development Agency awards roughly $3.5 billion to 4 companies for 72 missile tracking and warning satellitesThis batch of satellites will populate what the SDA calls the Tracking Layer of its Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture (PWSA) constellation in low Earth orbit. The work will be divided evenly, with each company building 18 spacecraft.
Meet NASA’s Astronaut Class of 2025 – Webby SubmissionNASA engineers are laying the foundation for the moonwalks the first woman and next man will conduct when they land on the lunar South Pole in 2024 as part of the Artemis program. At the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, teams are testing the tools and developing training approaches for lunar surface operations. As part of […]
NASA backs CINEMA smallsat fleet to probe Earth magnetotailLaurel MD (SPX) Dec 14, 2025 NASA has selected Dartmouth College and the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, to begin developing a mission that will shed more light on the growing impacts of space weather. The Cross-scale Investigation of Earths Magnetotail and Aurora (CINEMA) mission will unlock the secrets of the energy circulation through Earths magnetotail. The magnetotail is an ext




















