Space Policy News 25 June 2025

SpaceX Moon Mission in Jeopardy: Musk Clashes with Trump Official After NASA Opens Lander Bids

NASA’s acting chief Sean Duffy has announced he will open the Artemis III lunar-lander contract to competition after SpaceX’s delays ts2.tech. Competing firms like Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin and a Lockheed Martin–led team are now eyeing the first crewed Moon mission, slated for 2028 to beat China’s 2030 lunar goal ts2.tech reuters.com. SpaceX’s Starship has made progress (recent test flights met key objectives ts2.tech ts2.tech) but the program is still behind earlier schedules kesq.com ts2.tech. On Oct 21, Elon Musk erupted on X (Twitter), calling Duffy “Sean Dummy,” questioning his space credentials (mocking the secretary’s past as a tree-climbing champion kesq.com)

22 October 2025

October 2025 Space Roundup: Record Launches, Moon Mysteries & Budget Battles Rock the Space World

Sources: Authoritative space news outlets and agencies on Oct. 6–7, 2025, including Space.com, NASA and ESA releases, and Spaceflight Now space.com sciencedaily.com space.com space.com space.com tii.ae. These sources provide official data, mission details, and expert quotes for each item above.

7 October 2025

Moon Exploration · NASDAQ:RKLB · Rocket Launches · Space Industry · Space News · Space Policy

Space Race Heats Up: Major Launches, Moon Missions & Policy Showdowns (Sept. 19–20, 2025)

Key Facts Starlink Launch Extends SpaceX’s Record Year SpaceX continued its rapid launch cadence with yet another Starlink deployment on Sept. 19. After two days of bad weather delays, a Falcon 9 rocket roared off the pad at Vandenberg Space Force Base at 9:31 a.m. local time, carrying 24 Starlink V2 Mini satellites into polar orbit spaceflightnow.com. This mission – dubbed Starlink 17-12 – was SpaceX’s 84th Starlink launch of the year, underscoring the company’s breakneck pace in 2025 spaceflightnow.com. It also brings the total Starlink satellites launched in 2025 to over 2,000 as SpaceX builds out its massive internet constellation spaceflightnow.com. Notably, the

20 September 2025

Astronomy · Moon Missions · NASDAQ:SATS · NYSE:NOC · Science News · Space · Space Exploration · Space Policy

Potential Mars Life Clue, SpaceX Launch Blitz & Space Policy Shakeups – Your Sept 10–11 Space Roundup

Martian Rover Hints at Ancient Life NASA’s Perseverance rover has delivered what might be the most tantalizing evidence of past life on Mars to date. Researchers revealed that a rock sample nicknamed “Sapphire Canyon,” collected in Jezero Crater, contains organic molecules and unusual mineral patterns that could be “potential biosignatures” – in other words, possible chemical traces of ancient microbial activity nasa.gov. These findings underwent rigorous peer review and were just published in Nature, indicating the data’s validity. At a Sept. 10 briefing, top NASA scientists and officials highlighted the significance of this discovery. Acting Administrator Sean Duffy emphasized how remarkable

11 September 2025

Mars · Space · Space launches · Space News · Space Policy · SpaceX

Mars Rock Sparks Life Clue, Back‑to‑Back Rocket Launches & Space Policy Shakeups – This Week in Space (Sept 9–10, 2025)

Key Facts: Launches & Satellite Missions SpaceX’s 24-Hour Launch Blitz – and a Scrub: SpaceX lined up two Falcon 9 launches on back-to-back days, showcasing the company’s rapid cadence. In Florida, a Falcon 9 was slated to carry Nusantara Lima, a 4.5-ton Indonesian telecom satellite, to orbit. After stormy weather caused two last-minute scrubs on Sept. 8–9 (with countdowns halted in the final minute) nasaspaceflight.com, teams targeted a Wednesday night launch from Cape Canaveral. The mission aims to deploy Nusantara Lima to a geostationary orbit, replacing a satellite lost in 2020 due to a launch failure nasaspaceflight.com. The well-traveled booster (B1078) is scheduled to land

10 September 2025

Mars · NYSE:NOC · Rocket Launches · Science News · Space · Space Exploration · Space Policy

Space & Satellite Deep Dive – 8th July 2025: Starlink Expansion, Interstellar Visitor, AI in Orbit & Global Policy Shifts / Updated: 2025, July 8th, 12:00 CET

SpaceX’s Starlink 10-28 mission launched from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on July 8, 2025, deploying 28 broadband Starlink satellites into low-Earth orbit and marking the Falcon 9 booster’s 22nd flight, with the booster landing on the drone ship A Shortfall of Gravitas about 8 minutes and 14 seconds after liftoff. The 500th Falcon 9 launch occurred with the Starlink 10-25 mission, deploying 27 Starlink V2 Mini satellites and marking booster B1067’s 29th flight. 3I/ATLAS, discovered by NASA’s ATLAS survey in July 2025 in Chile, is about 20 km wide and travels up to 68 km/s, making it the third

8 July 2025

Artificial Intelligence · NASDAQ:AAPL · NASDAQ:RDW · NYSE:GSAT · Satellites · Space · Space Policy · Space Technology · Starlink

EU Declares War on Space Junk: A Deep Dive into the New Space Act, the Starlink Dilemma and the Hidden Climate Costs of Orbital Debris

The EU Space Act was presented on 25 June 2025 and would impose EU-wide rules on launch licensing, debris-mitigation, end-of-life disposal, cybersecurity and environmental impact, with fines up to 2% of global turnover. If approved, most provisions would apply from 2030, including special traffic-coordination duties for mega (100+) and giga (1,000+) constellations. The debris crisis features about 40,000 tracked objects orbiting Earth and more than 1.2 million pieces larger than 1 cm, with at least 3,000 new debris fragments created in 2024. Starlink has launched 7,578 satellites, of which 7,556 were operational as of 30 May 2025. SpaceX logged over

25 June 2025

Climate Change · Environmental Impact · Satellite Technology · Space · Space Law · Space Policy

Space Policy News 25 June 2025 - 22 October 2025