Space Development Agency awards $3.5 billion in contracts for missile-tracking satellites

L3Harris, Lockheed Martin, Rocket Lab and Northrop Grumman won contracts to build 72 satellites
Hungary’s 4iG commits to $100 million Axiom Space investment

Hungarian communications provider 4iG has agreed to invest $100 million in U.S.
ESA weighing options to address exploration funding shortfall

The European Space Agency expects to decide in February how to address a 20% funding shortfall in its exploration program.
NASA safety panel recommends review of Artemis plans

Blue Origin flies first wheelchair user to space

Blue Origin flew its final New Shepard suborbital mission of the year Dec.
Paraplegic engineer becomes the first wheelchair user to blast into space
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Isaacman emphasizes accelerating NASA programs as he takes agency’s reins

New NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman said he wants NASA to move faster on programs such as Artemis but acknowledged he needs time to get up to speed on NASA’s activities.
Rocket Lab wraps up record launch year

Rocket Lab successfully launched a Japanese radar imaging satellite Dec.
Possible "superkilonova" exploded not once but twice
When the most massive stars reach the ends of their lives, they blow up in spectacular supernova explosions, which seed the universe with heavy elements such as carbon and iron. Another type of explosion - the kilonova - occurs when a pair of dense dead stars, called neutron stars, smash together, forging even heavier elements such as gold and uranium. Such heavy elements are among the basic bui Proba-3 mission closes gap in inner solar corona monitoring
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 