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Issue 79 | Breaking Space News: Dec 1 - 7, 2025
Menstrual Cups Successfully Tested in Spaceflight. This Week in Space News: Clocks on Mars Run Faster Than on Earth, ISS Hosts Eight Spacecraft, Microbes Could Transform Martian Soil for 3D‐Printed Habitats, Sugars and Polymers Found on Bennu, and Solar Insights Unearthed from Ancient Chinese Texts. Plus: Russian Cosmonaut Removed from SpaceX Flight, Missile Defense Agency Awards Contracts to Over 1,000 Companies, and Hypersonics, GEO Satellites, Nuclear Microreactors Draw Major Space and Defense Investment.
Issue 72 | Breaking Space News: Oct 12 - 18, 2025
Low Earth Orbit Nears Satellite Congestion Tipping Point (Unsurprisingly). New Space Armor Promises Protection Against Debris at 17,000 MPH. This Week in Space: Dark Object Photographed, Record Ocean Swells, Expanding Magnetic Weak Spots, and Indian Citizen Scientists Spot a Massive ORC. Plus JPL Layoffs, EU and US Defense Updates, Impulse’s New Lander, and More.
Issue 70 | Breaking Space News: Sept 28 - Oct 04, 2025
For the First Time, NASA and China's CNSA Coordinated to Avert a Satellite Collision. This Week in Space News: Spectral Image From a Binary Star System, China's Probe Selfie, A Black Hole Jet, Moon-Forming Discs, Tumbleweed Rover Design and Expanding Cooperation Between European and Asia‐Pacific Space Agencies. Plus: NASA Employees Furloughed, Germany, Canada Space Defense Investments, Weather Updates From a Free-Floating Rogue Planet, A Satellite Visualization Tool, and More.
Issue 69 | Breaking Space News: Sept 21 - 27, 2025
The Largest-Ever Simulation of the Universe Contains 3.4 Billion Galaxies — This Week in Space News: Glimpse of an Eclipse from Space, Space-Based Tsunami Detection, Deep Space Laser Links Across 218 Million Miles, Russia's "Noah's Ark" Capsule and US Concerns Over China's Growth in Space. Plus: Liquid Uranium Propulsion and Nuclear Batteries, a Space‐Based Semiconductor Supply Chain and the Nearest ET Intelligence May be 33,000 Light Years Away.
Issue 66 | Breaking Space News: Aug 31 - Sept 06, 2025
We Now Have a Simpler Way to Make Oxygen in Space. This Week in Space: A Rectangular Telescope, 3I/ATLAS’ Growing Tail, ISRO’s Parachute Test, New NASA Administrator, and the US-China Lunar Race. Plus: Starship Launch Concerns in Florida, Space Force’s AI and Smallsat Strategy, China’s Military Parade, Kuiper’s First Airline Client, ExxonMobil’s Methane Monitoring, and More.
Issue 64 | Breaking Space News: Aug 17 - 23, 2025
A Comet May be Responsible Earth’s Water & Starlink to Help Cut Astronomy Interference — This Week in Space: Sun‐Synchronous Orbits, Sinus Issues on the ISS, Uranus’s New Moon; Russian Biosatellite Launch, Korean Cubesat on Artemis 2, Mexican ThumbSat on China’s CAS Space Launch. Plus: Portuguese Spaceport; NASA to Reduce Focus on Climate Science; Schriever Wargames Updates, X‐37B Launch, Space Cotan‐Firefly MoU, Platinum Equity‐Anuvu Takeover, Ancient Starburst Galaxy, Mysterious Radio Bursts & More.
Issue 63 | Breaking Space News: Aug 10 - 16, 2025
The Eye Of Sauron Is Staring At Us — This Week In Space: What If Life Doesn’t Need Water After All? Dive Into MEO Dynamics, A TRAPPIST Update, NASA’s PUNCH Reaching Final Orbit, & President Trump’s New Executive Order. Plus: Rocket Lab Acquires Geost, Space Force Absorbs Air Force National Guard Units, AUKUS Deep-Space Radar Goes Live, Impulse Space Unveils Caravan, iSpace Unveils China's First Reusable Booster Recovery Barge, Remedy for NASA Swift’s Orbital Decay, Canada's First Commercial Spaceport & Much More.
Issue 61 | Breaking Space News: July 27 - Aug 02, 2025
Unprecedented Widespread Freshwater Decline Is Impacting 75% of the Global Population, & Prebiotic Chemistry Is Detected in Space — This Week in Space: Explore the GEO Belt, Exploding Glaciers, Blazars, Starlink’s Astronomical Impact, Super Earth K2-18 Updates, & the NASA–Roscosmos Meeting. Plus: X-37B’s New Mission, Slingshot’s Autonomous AI Agent, Launch Updates from iSpace & Gilmour, a Reinvented Double-Slit Experiment, & More.
Issue 59 | Breaking Space News: July 13 - 19, 2025
Earth-Size Worlds May Be Less Common Than Expected — This Week in Space: INVICTUS Spaceplane, Record Breaking Cargo Shipment to the Chinese Space Station, Oxygen & Water From Lunar Soil, Black Hole Merger, & TRACERS Mission. Plus: Trump Admin Makes Climate Report Unavailable, Science Budget Debate in the US, NASA Protest, Space Force Updates, AX-4 Return, Satellite Services & UK's GDP, SES-Intelsat Merger.
Issue 58 | Breaking Space News: July 06 - 12, 2025
Aliens Might Be Listening to Earth’s Airports — Or We’re in a Quiet Cosmic Neighborhood. This Week in Space: China’s Orbital Servicing & Neptune Mission, NASA’s Asteroid Deflection Hurdle, a New Interstellar Visitor, Budgetary Support for NASA & TRACSS, Starlink in India, Space Force Exercises, GAO Oversight, Japan's Expansion in Space, and More.
Issue 56 | Breaking Space News: June 22 - 28, 2025
World’s Firsts: Images From World's Largest Digital Camera & Photographed Exoplanets — This Week in Space: Bolivian Forests, Mexico-SpaceX Fallout, Shoes Designed in Orbit, NSF Eviction, Uninsured Satellites, Space Force Budget, ULA's Government Compliant Chatbot -RocketGPT, Maxar’s Sentry, Lunar Dust, Radiation-Proof Lichens & More
Issue 54 | Breaking Space News: June 07 - 14, 2025
First-Ever Look at the Sun’s South Pole — This Week in Space: The Kármán Line, Concerning Development From Antarctica, Vantablack & Satellite Reflectivity Solutions, Lunar Landing Innovations & China's Collab with Italy, Austria. Plus, NASA Budget Ripples Reach Europe, US Defense Funding Trends, Non-Toxic Propulsion, SES-Intelsat Merger, and More.
