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James Webb Space Telescope’s year of big discoveries

JWST is offering new insights into the universe’s origins, which continue to challenge established physics and cosmology.

SNAPSHOT: Launch vehicles set for 2025 first flights

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Twenty-four new launch vehicles, many delayed from 2024, are expected to take flight this year.

Flock of launch vehicles set for first flight in 2025

The main engine of the Nano launch vehicle from South Korea’s Innospace was successfully test-fired in August. The firm hopes to make its first launch in 2025. Credit: Innospace

With as many as 23 launch vehicles set to make their first flights in 2025, there’s also a renewed focus on sovereign launch capabilities

2024 set another launch record, 2025 poised to shatter it

With a launch attempt every 34 hours, 2024 set spaceflight records. More than half of 2024’s launches came atop SpaceX’s Falcon 9 reusable rocket.

Quilty Space 2024 Q4 quarterly transactional update

During the fourth quarter, transactional volumes were overall largely in line with recent periods. Space sector M&A volumes were relatively consistent, with 13 announced transactions during Q4 versus 14 during Q3 and 11 during Q2.

Investigation underway following SpaceX Starship explosion

SpaceX’s Starship exploded shortly after separating from the Super Heavy booster following the company’s seventh scheduled test.

New Glenn reaches orbit on first launch, after almost a week of delays due to poor weather

Blue Origin’s New Glenn launch vehicle successfully lifted off on Jan. 16 and delivered its payload to medium Earth orbit.

ESA’s Proba-3 mission launches to create artificial eclipses in orbit

On Dec. 5, Proba-3 lifted off on a PSLV-XL rocket from Satish Dhawan Space Centre in India.

ESA’s Proba-3 satellite pair will create artificial solar eclipses in orbit to study ejections from the Sun.

International Space Station moved twice to dodge orbital debris

Crews have maneuvered International Space Station twice in one week to avoid orbital debris, using thrusters to move the research outpost to a higher orbit.

Global workforce growth shows annual overall gains

SpaceX Crew-7 astronauts train in Hawthorne, California, for their mission to the International Space Station. The crew, which returned to Earth in March, consisted of four astronauts from different government agencies: NASA, ESA, JAXA, and Roscosmos. Credit: SpaceX

Annual workforce data shows a net gain of more than 26,000 space workers. That compares to 6,436 added jobs in the prior year comparison. While methodologies differ, tracking annual data provides some insight to the growth of the global workforce.