China reached 90 orbital launches in 2025 with consecutive Long March missions deploying Guowang megaconstellation satellites and the advanced Fengyun-4C weather spacecraft.

A proposal by the Trump administration to dismantle a leading atmospheric science center would also have implications for space science.

A French launch startup that recently closed a funding round is seeking defense applications for its hybrid propulsion technology.

Berlin, Germany (SPX) Dec 30, 2025
On the fourth launch anniversary of the NASA ESA CSA James Webb Space Telescope, the European Space Agency has released a 43 minute fly through video built from many of Webbs best known images, presented as a single continuous journey across the cosmos. The compilation revisits a wide range of Webb observations, arranging them as a sequence of progressive zooms that simulate a flight through dif

Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Dec 30, 2025
China's manned space program has used a nationwide resource mobilization system to manage a recent contingency involving the Shenzhou-20 mission and to launch its follow-on Shenzhou-22 spacecraft within 20 days. After the Shenzhou-20 return vehicle suffered minor window damage from space debris, the China Manned Space Agency activated its first contingency plan of this kind, coordinating e

Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Dec 30, 2025
Of the four mice that recently flew aboard China's space station, one female has now given birth to healthy offspring on Earth, in a mission that also saw the public help name the pioneering "flying mice" crew. The Technology and Engineering Center for Space Utilization (CSU) under the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) said the experiment marks China's first full-cycle mammalian space study, fro