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Here is a list of news that were published in our Newsletter the week of November 3, 2025:

Human Space Exploration

• How Vast plans to keep humanity in orbit;
• Space debris postpones Shenzhou XX astronauts Earth return;
• Scott Tingle named NASA’s new chief astronaut, succeeds Joe Acaba
  Coalition Member in the News – Boeing;
• Trump will re-nominate Isaacman for NASA Administrator;
• Vast completes Haven-1 structural testing, launches pathfinder mission;
• China delays Shenzhou-20 crew’s return due to possible debris strike;
• The International Space Station will fall to Earth in 2030. Can a private space station really fill its gap?
  Coalition Members in the News – Axiom Space, Northrop Grumman;
• What’s happening on the International Space Station while the government is shut down?
• Inside NASA’s scramble to find a backup Moon plan and the wild ideas companies are pitching
  Coalition Members in the News – Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman;
• It’s nearly time to say goodbye to the International Space Station. What happens next?
  Coalition Member in the News – Axiom Space;
• China targets 2026 for first Long March 10 launch, new lunar crew spacecraft flight;
• Shenzhou-21 completes rapid docking with Tiangong space station 3.5 hours after launch;

Space Science

• China’s Mars orbiter captures detailed images of interstellar object 3I ATLAS;
• Ingredients for life spotted in harsh, “early universe-like” galaxy;
• Accelerate U.S. lunar exploration with a robotic sample return campaign;
• Self-replicating probes could be operating right now in the solar system. Here’s how we could look for them;
• How water forms on planets during early formation stages;
• Aging stars may be destroying their closest planets;
• NASA’s next Mars mission will help future astronauts on the Red Planet;
• The light of 10 trillion suns: Scientists report the biggest black hole flare ever recorded;
• Webb Telescope reveals the universe’s chaotic childhood;
• Ancient radio signals could reveal what dark matter really is;
• The future of propellantless space travel;
• Mission to Mars: How space exploration pushes the human body to its limits;
• Blue Origin fires up powerful New Glenn rocket ahead of NASA Mars mission launch (video);
• Why an interstellar comet has scientists excited;

Other News

• Isaacman renomination wins support from much of the space industry;
• Nuclear energy is key to American leadership in space;
• China reached out to NASA to avoid a potential satellite collision in 1st-of-its-kind space cooperation;
• The geomagnetic storms have begun;
• Intuitive Machines to acquire Lanteris Space Systems;
• China tests inflatable space factory, eyes in-orbit manufacturing;
• Florida Space Coast set to break yearly launch record this week
  Coalition Members in the News – Boeing, Lockheed Martin;
• Latvia will become 60th nation to sign Artemis Accords for peaceful space exploration;

Major Space-Related Activities for the Week

• Sunday marked the 25th anniversary of a continuous human presence aboard the NASA-led ISS, with the U.S. government still in shutdown and still much uncertainty over when the Senate and House might come together on a budget strategy.
• The Johns Hopkins University’s Bloomberg Center and SpaceNews are coming together to host a Discovery series of events focused on the geopolitical, commercial, scientific and security dimensions of space. Monday night’s first session is to discuss “what’s possible, where we’re headed and the collaboration powering the next breakthroughs that will take us there.”
• The Economist is hosting the publication’s third Space Economy Summit on Wednesday through Thursday in Orlando, Florida with former NASA administrators Dan Goldin and Bill Nelson among the participants. It appears a virtual option is not possible.
• The National Space Society’s Space Settlement Summit at the University of Central Florida, also in Orlando, is meeting Monday and Tuesday.
• The National Science Foundation, NASA and the Department of Energy’s Astronomy and Astrophysics Advisory Committee (AAAC) will meet virtually on Friday from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. ET.

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