Iran demands binding treaty talks as orbit becomes a war-fighting domain
Iran's UN envoy called on the Conference on Disarmament to begin talks on a binding treaty banning weapons in orbit.
New White House policy targets America’s launch bottleneck
Trump signed NSPM-17 to expand launch ranges, speed permits and grow commercial space transportation.
Katalyst scraps Swift reboost, settles for a close flyby instead
Katalyst's Link spacecraft will skip its planned grapple-and-boost of NASA's Swift telescope after attitude-control trouble.
Eleven space startups land $562M in Space Force scale-up backing
SpaceWERX picked 11 companies for Strategic Funding Increase deals that could draw a combined $562.5M.
Escort mix-up leaves invited journalists staring down Space Force guns
Space Force security officers at Vandenberg pointed guns at invited reporters and two service members after mistaking their escorted convoy…
ZhuQue-3 makes China’s first on-land booster recovery
LandSpace soft-landed its ZhuQue-3 first stage on land, giving China a reusable booster like the Falcon 9 and a faster…
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