Here is a list of news that were published in our Newsletter the week of December 15, 2025:
Human Space Exploration
- Trump issues Executive Order to ensure U.S. space superiority;
- Experiments on a private space station: Vast asks scientists for research proposals;
- Russia says damaged launch pad crucial to its space program will be fixed by February;
- Martian cities could be built from ice;
- The key role Huntsville is playing in first manned Moon mission in 50 years;
- Russian government approves Roscosmos-NASA talks on cross-flights to ISS;
- Intuitive Machines and Telespazio to collaborate on lunar satellite networks
Coalition Member in the News – Maxar Space Systems;
Space Science
- ‘Crash Clock’ reveals how soon satellite collisions would occur after a severe solar storm and it’s pretty scary;
- What time will interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS be closest to Earth today?
- Catch the Ursid meteor shower as it peaks just before Christmas;
- Latest comet 3I/ATLAS news: Closest approach to Earth this week;
- Comet 3I/ATLAS has a green glow in new color images from Gemini North;
- Perseverance Mars rover ready to roll for miles in years ahead;
- An alien comet just glowed in x-rays and it may be hiding gases we’ve never seen before;
- PUNCH mission spacecraft producing unprecedented images of Sun;
- We’ve now found 40,000 asteroids that could pose a threat to Earth. Here’s why it’s the tip of the iceberg;
- NASA’s Webb telescope, Curiosity rover make Time’s best inventions list;
- Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS makes its closest approach to Earth on Dec. 19: Here’s what you need to know;
- Mars MAVEN mission may be lost in space
Coalition Member in the News – Lockheed Martin; - EscaPADE explorer sort of goes to Mars;
- Is the big bang a myth? Part 4: The emergence of matter;
- James Webb Space Telescope could illuminate dark matter in a way scientists didn’t realize;
- A spider-like scar haunts Jupiter’s moon Europa and scientists think they know why;
Other News
- Rocket Lab launches 4 novel DiskSat satellites for U.S. Space Force, NASA;
- Blue Origin scrubs space tourist rocket launch with first wheelchair user due to last minute ‘observation’;
- Space community celebrates Isaacman confirmation
Coalition for Deep Space Exploration and Coalition President & CEO Allen Cutler in the News; - For the 1st time ever, a person who uses a wheelchair will fly to space;
- Korea plans Mars mission in 10 years with domestic launch vehicle;
- Starfish Space announce autonomous rendezvous and proximity mission success with Impulse Space;
- Alabama ‘exactly where Space Command should be,’ Pete Hegseth says during Redstone visit;
- Blue Origin halfway through 4-flight certification to allow launch of national security missions;
- 13 incredible space museums in the U.S. every traveler should visit;
Major Space-Related Activities for the Week
- While a specific date has not yet been set, the U.S. Senate could vote prior to year’s end on Jared Isaacman to become NASA’s Administrator.
- Early Thursday, Blue Origin is preparing for the 37th launch of a reusable, suborbital New Shepard with six private astronauts, including a first, the launch of Michi Benthaus, who is confined to a wheelchair due to a 2018 mountain biking accident.
- On Friday, NASA astronaut Jonny Kim, a U.S. Navy Seal and Harvard Medical School educated flight surgeon, is scheduled to discuss his 285-day mission to the ISS during a NASA news briefing planned for 3:30 p.m. ET.
- Kim returned to Earth early on December 8 with two Russian cosmonauts.
- Also, on Friday at 2 p.m. ET, the NASA Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel is to convene for an hour-long session, with virtual access.
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