Week in images: 18-22 August 2025
Friday, 22 August 2025 12:10
Week in images: 18-22 August 2025
Discover our week through the lens
NASA needs bold leadership — or we’ll be watching on TV while Beijing lands on the moon
Friday, 22 August 2025 12:00
New rocket plans continue to emerge to support China’s growing space ambitions
Friday, 22 August 2025 08:18
Space Force establishes Systems Delta 85 to strengthen space defense integration
Friday, 22 August 2025 08:12
Space Systems Command has officially activated Systems Delta 85, a new organization designed to unify acquisition and operational support for space defense missions. The command and activation ceremony took place Aug. 8 at Peterson Space Force Base, with Col. Jason West assuming leadership of SYD 85 under the authority of U.S. Air Force Brig. Gen. Michelle Idle.
The new SYD 85 brings toget Researchers use electrochemistry to boost nuclear fusion rates
Friday, 22 August 2025 08:12
Using a small bench-top reactor, researchers at the University of British Columbia (UBC) have demonstrated that electrochemically loading a solid metal target with deuterium fuel can boost nuclear fusion rates.
Large-scale magnetic confinement fusion-which puts plasmas under extreme temperatures and pressure-is being widely explored as a method for clean energy generation. The experiment p Spacesuit milestone reached with 20 spacewalks on Chinese station
Friday, 22 August 2025 08:12
The extravehicular spacesuit B aboard China's space station has achieved a major milestone by supporting 20 spacewalks, according to the China Astronaut Research and Training Center. Astronaut Chen Dong most recently used the suit on Aug 15 during the Shenzhou XX crew's third series of extravehicular activities.
This accomplishment marks the first time a Chinese spacesuit has met its exten AI assistant supports Chinese space station astronauts
Friday, 22 August 2025 08:12
The crew of China's Tiangong space station recently conducted their third spacewalk with the help of a new artificial intelligence system named Wukong AI, marking the first use of a large-scale AI model aboard the orbital complex.
Delivered by the Tianzhou 9 cargo craft on July 15, Wukong AI arrived along with upgraded spacesuits, fresh produce, and other supplies. The system, named after BlackSky expands non Earth imaging partnership with HEO under new seven figure contract
Friday, 22 August 2025 08:12
BlackSky Technology Inc. has signed a seven figure Gen 2 space domain awareness expansion contract with HEO to provide fully automated low latency non Earth imaging services for defense, intelligence and commercial missions. The agreement marks the fourth phase of the program, following full automation of the tasking to delivery process.
"BlackSky's high resolution Gen 2 high cadence monit CerraCap backs Space Kinetic to accelerate space superiority and missile defense
Friday, 22 August 2025 08:12
CerraCap Ventures has invested in Space Kinetic Corp., a cleared national security innovator based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The move aligns with CerraCap's push to speed space defense technologies and bolster the United States strategic edge as space becomes increasingly contested Another US military mini shuttle launches on a secret mission
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SpaceX launches eighth mission of the X-37B military spaceplane
Friday, 22 August 2025 03:00
The U.S. Air Force’s autonomous reusable vehicle has flown to space since 2010 for long missions that last years
SpaceX launched secretive X-37B US military space drone
Friday, 22 August 2025 02:28
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will blast into space on Thursday night carrying the US military's secretive X-37B drone on its eighth mission.
The rocket is due to launch at 11:50 pm (0450 GMT on Friday), according to SpaceX, which said a backup window is available at the same time the following day.
The US Space Force has said the drone's mission will include "a wide range of test and exp Steam thruster entrusted to raise orbit of Artemis 2 cubesat
Friday, 22 August 2025 01:58
A novel propulsion system will be called upon to perform a life-or-death maneuver hours after the deployment of a South Korean cubesat on next year’s Artemis 2 mission.
Amentum begins work at U.S. space launch ranges after protest is withdrawn
Friday, 22 August 2025 00:24
The company won the $4 billion ‘Space Force Range Contract’ for Cape Canaveral and Vandenberg operations.
Industry wary of UK Space Agency shake-up
Thursday, 21 August 2025 23:45
LONDON – A day after the British government announced plans to fold the UK Space Agency into the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT), industry leaders said the move could streamline Britain’s space policy but also warned it risked undermining transparency and distracting from upcoming European talks about funding for space programs.