Wednesday, December 17, 2025

SPACE NEWS: Another commercial space station company emerges

 
 
Another company is entering the commercial space station market. 👉 See more SpaceNews daily news from this playlist    • SpaceNews First Up Audio Daily   👉 Don't miss our weekly Space Minds podcast, subscribe and get notifications. Here's the playlist    • Space Minds   Here are today's stories in SpaceNews First Up for December 17, 2025.
  • Another company is entering the commercial space station market.
  • The Senate is expected to vote today on the nomination of Jared Isaacman to lead NASA.
  • Indian space situational awareness (SSA) company Digantara has raised $50 million as it expands into missile defense.
  • OQ Technology says it has connected a commercial Internet of Things (IoT) chipset directly to one of its low Earth orbit satellites.
  • Vantor, the former Maxar Intelligence, is partnering with Niantic Spatial to develop navigation technology for military platforms operating in GPS-denied environments.
  • An Ariane 6 launched two Galileo navigation satellites overnight.
  • A Japanese navigation satellite is stuck on the pad after a last-second scrub Tuesday night.
  • The Space Force and Rocket Lab have confirmed plans to launch experimental “DiskSats” on an Electron rocket this week.
  • If satellites suddenly lost the ability to maneuver, they would start colliding with each other in orbit within three days.
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SPACE NEWS: Another commercial space station company emerges

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