The Senate Commerce Committee advanced the nomination of Jared Isaacman to be NASA administrator to the full Senate in a Dec. 8 vote.

The ongoing review could have implications for space projects

December 8, 2025 – Washington, D.C. – The Commercial Space Federation (CSF) is pleased to welcome its four newest members to our Space Supply Chain Council (S2C2): McCollister’s, MERC Aerospace, Space Markets, and Vivace. Together, these small and medium-sized space businesses represent a diverse cross-section of the commercial space industrial base, from logistics and innovative engineering to marketplace infrastructure and next-generation space technologies.

MILAN – When the European Space Agency announced its new three-year spending plan last month, two countries stood out for the increased size of their contributions. Poland boosted its budget from 198 million euros ($132 million) in 2022 to 735 million euros in 2025 (a 276% increase). Spain raised its contribution from 933 million euros to 1.871 billion euros (a 101% increase).

As the space industry explores orbital data centers to meet growing demands for sovereignty, resilience and sustainability, one critical lens remains underutilized: cost. Not just launch cost or CapEx; but total cost of ownership, sourcing strategy and operational efficiency.

A proposed European Union space law could cost both European and American space companies hundreds of millions of euros in lost revenue annually, according to a new study.

NASA has extended an agreement with a nonprofit organization to manage the portion of the International Space Station designated as a national laboratory, likely for the final time.

Guetlein said his office has held extensive private engagements with industry.

A House hearing on the rise of China’s space program turned into a broader critique of U.S. space policy, including NASA’s current approach to returning astronauts to the moon.

he Department of the Air Force has approved plans to convert a former Delta 4 launch site at Cape Canaveral into a complex for SpaceX’s Starship.

The company founded by SpaceX veterans is opening a solid rocket motor manufacturing campus in New Mexico

Northrop Grumman tested a solid rocket motor Dec. 4 as part of an internal program to advance solid rocket propulsion technologies.

Orbex received far less funding than the other four ESA European Launcher Challenge companies after the U.K. deferred a decision on funding allocations.

China could be without emergency launch capability to Tiangong space station for months, leaving no rapid-response option for any new crisis following the Shenzhou-20 incident.

At next year’s World Radiocommunications Conference (WRC-25), governments will face a choice that goes to the heart of how we monitor our warming planet. Some regulators are wondering whether to open part of the X-band — the 8.025–8.4 GHz range used by Earth observation satellites — to 5G and 6G mobile networks. Several major telecom operators have been pushing for this move, arguing that they could use this spectrum more efficiently and pay countries handsomely for the right to do so.

SpaceX and Amazon stand to get about 4% of the nearly $20 billion that states have proposed for rural broadband buildouts, representing roughly 21% of the locations under the federal BEAD program.

This investment follows Washington Harbour’s earlier moves into space technology.

Welcome, Jared Isaacman. We who love NASA, or at least the idea of NASA, wish you the very best in taking leadership of the great American space agency. You seem to be an agent for change and NASA sorely needs that. Its human spaceflight program, which garners most of its public attention and financial support, is dysfunctional (unsustainable as in an earlier incarnation of a failed initiative) governed more by industry contracts and special-interest politics than by any space exploration or national purpose goal. 

HOUSTON, TX – December 3, 2025 – For more than three decades, Celestis, Inc. has transformed remembrance into exploration, sending the names, ashes, and DNA of pioneers and visionaries into space. Today, the company announces the next chapter in that extraordinary story: Infinite Flight, a deep-space memorial mission to be carried aboard Stoke Space’s Nova rocket, a fully and rapidly reusable medium-lift launch vehicle.

In this episode, former NASA commercial space division chief Phil McAlister sits down with host David Ariosto for a wide-ranging conversation about the future of human spaceflight, NASA’s internal culture, and the explosive growth of the commercial space sector.

Roscosmos has replaced a cosmonaut assigned to the next Crew Dragon mission to the International Space Station for reasons neither it nor NASA will disclose.

Japan is a lion in kittens’ clothing. In both land area and population, it pales in comparison to the likes of the United States, China, India, Brazil, and Russia. In influence, significance, and impact, however, it consistently punches above its weight. In fact, Japan’s economy is the world’s fourth largest, according to the International Monetary Fund, which says the country’s GDP is a massive $4.28 trillion—despite a shrinking population and a paucity of natural resources.

U.S. Space Command’s push for “dynamic space operations” — the ability to maneuver in orbit without worrying about running dry — demands logistics the military has never had.

Senate Commerce Committee leaders said they hope to swiftly confirm Jared Isaacman as NASA administrator as he delivered a “message of urgency” about returning astronauts to the moon before China.

MDA selected 1,014 vendors for the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) program