SAN FRANCISCO – GHGSat and ExxonMobil Corp. announced a partnership Sept. 5 to monitor and mitigate methane emissions for onshore operations in North America and Asia. Collaboration between GHGSat, a Canadian firm focused on greenhouse-gas monitoring, and the multinational oil and gas company began in 2020 with field trials to demonstrate space-based technology for methane […]

A new space race is heating up across the pond — not to be the first to reach the moon, but to provide a credible and flexible legal framework capable of turbocharging the space sectors in the United Kingdom and Europe.  The intensity of this drive has increased over the summer of 2025. On June

NASA’s acting administrator said he was “angry” after a predecessor told Congress the agency was behind China in sending astronauts to the moon. The post Duffy pushes back against testimony that NASA is falling behind China in lunar appeared first on SpaceNews.

During the 39th annual Small Satellite Conference in Salt Lake City, Utah, in August, SpaceNews hosted a group of industry leaders on our Space Minds podcast to discuss the latest in smallsats and where this part of the industry is headed. These excerpts from our conversations, which have been lightly edited for clarity and brevity,

For years, satellite sensors have transmitted vast quantities of imagery to the ground, where analysts then discarded views obscured by clouds, identified natural features or objects and shared pictures with customers. The entire process took days. Recently, companies have cut the timeline to hours — or even less — through frequent contact with ground stations,

A Spanish startup is entering the emerging reentry vehicle market with plans to develop a reusable capsule offering frequent flights. The post Orbital Paradigm readies first reentry mission appeared first on SpaceNews.

The new year-long program seeks to prepare military leaders for a “contested” space domain The post Space Force graduates first class of officers trained for ‘great power competition’ appeared first on SpaceNews.

Amazon’s Project Kuiper has clinched its first airline deal, partnering with JetBlue to bring LEO connectivity to about 75 aircraft from 2027 in another blow to legacy geostationary players. The post Project Kuiper scores first airline win as JetBlue picks LEO over GEO appeared first on SpaceNews.

In this week’s episode of Space Minds, host David Ariosto speaks with Riley Duren, CEO of Carbon Mapper and veteran of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The post Carbon Mapper and tracking super pollutants appeared first on SpaceNews.

2025 SpaceNews Icon Awards Nominations Are Due Sept. 12 We are thrilled to announce that nominations for the 2025 SpaceNews Icon Awards are now open. Established in 2017 as the […] The post Honoring the Best in Space: 2025 SpaceNews Icon Awards Nominations Open appeared first on SpaceNews.