Carina Nebula — star formation region photographed by JWST

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newsDecember 15, 2025

The Real Cost of Getting to Space in 2025: A Launch Provider Comparison

Launch costs in 2025 compared: Falcon 9 at $2,700/kg, Electron, Ariane 6, and Starship's promised 10x drop. Shuttle was $54,000/kg — here's what actually changed.

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analysisDecember 15, 2025

Venus: Earth's Evil Twin and the Next Frontier

Venus gets more missions in the next decade than the last 30 years: NASA DAVINCI and VERITAS, ESA EnVision, Rocket Lab's private probe, and the phosphine life debate.

VenusDAVINCIVERITAS

Sample cache tubes deposited on the Martian surface by the Perseverance rover

analysisDecember 11, 2025

Mars Sample Return: Bringing Pieces of Mars to Earth

Mars Sample Return explained: how NASA and ESA plan to retrieve Perseverance's rock tubes, the $11B budget crisis, the architecture rethink, and the astrobiology stakes.

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India's Chandrayaan-3 Vikram lander on the lunar surface near the south pole

analysisDecember 9, 2025

Chandrayaan-3: India's Triumphant Moon Landing That Inspired a Billion People

How ISRO made India the 4th nation on the Moon — and the first at the lunar south pole — for $75 million. Chandrayaan-3's Vikram lander, Pragyan rover, and what it discovered.

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newsDecember 9, 2025

Japan's Quiet Space Powerhouse: From JAXA to Commercial Lunar Ambitions

Japan's space program decoded: JAXA's SLIM 55-meter Moon landing, the H3 rocket, ispace, Astroscale debris cleanup, and Tokyo's commercial lunar ambitions.

JapanJAXASLIM

High-resolution photograph of the full Moon showing craters, maria, and highlands

analysisDecember 9, 2025

चंद्रयान-3: भारत की ऐतिहासिक चंद्र लैंडिंग जिसने एक अरब लोगों को प्रेरित किया

वो पल जब पूरे देश ने साँस रोक ली 23 अगस्त, 2023 को शाम 6:04 बजे भारतीय मानक समय पर, भारत भर में एक अरब से ज़्यादा लोग अपनी स्क्रीन से चिपके हुए थे। स्कूलों में,…

Chandrayaan-3ISROIndia

analysisDecember 8, 2025

Space-Based Solar Power: Beaming Clean Energy from Orbit

Space-based solar power beams 24/7 clean energy to Earth via microwaves. Caltech SSPD-1 proved it in orbit; ESA Solaris and JAXA aim for gigawatt stations by 2035.

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analysisDecember 5, 2025

Ion Propulsion: The Slow but Mighty Engine of Deep Space

Ion engines produce the thrust of a sheet of paper but crossed billions of kilometers on Dawn, DART, and Psyche — how Hall-effect and VASIMR thrusters actually work.

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Saturn and its ring system photographed in stunning detail by the Cassini spacecraft

analysisDecember 3, 2025

Cassini-Huygens: 13 Years at Saturn and the Greatest Planetary Mission Ever Flown

Cassini-Huygens: 20 years, 293 Saturn orbits, Titan's methane lakes, Enceladus's ocean plumes, and the 2017 Grand Finale plunge that redefined planetary science.

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ESA's Ariane 6 rocket launching from the Guiana Space Centre in Kourou

newsDecember 3, 2025

Germany's Space Ambition: From Peenemünde's Shadow to Europe's Largest Space Investor (Part 1)

Germany is ESA's biggest funder at €5.4B, runs 55 DLR research institutes, and is racing to launch two private rockets — Spectrum and RFA ONE — by 2026.

Germany space programDLRESA

newsDecember 3, 2025

Space Startup Funding in 2025: Where Venture Capital Is Flowing

Space VC funding in 2025: where the money flows post-SPAC crash. Vast, Varda and Impulse lead a mature sector built on real revenue, not hype. The 2025 deal data.

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newsDecember 3, 2025

Deutschlands Griff nach den Sternen: Vom Schatten Peenemündes zum größten Raumfahrtinvestor Europas (Teil 1)

Deutschland ist mit 5,4 Mrd. Euro der größte ESA-Beitragszahler, betreibt 55 DLR-Forschungsinstitute und will bis 2026 zwei private Raketen — Spectrum und RFA ONE — ins All schicken.

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