12/07/2025
We Report Space Weekly Rewind
11302025 ~ 120625
Dongfeng, China ~
China attempted to become one of the few countries capable of launching & recovering the booster stage of a rocket. A private company Landspace, launched a liquid oxygen/methane reusable rocket with a dummy payload. While the payload was placed into a low earth orbit, the first stage experienced an unknown technical issue on descent catching fire and crashing just off of the launch pad in the Gobi Desert roughly 350 km from the liftoff site.
Brevard County, Fl ~
Currently the United States has no floating launchpads that can compete with the existing Chinese launchpads. If Seagate Space (Tampa, Fl) & Vaya Space (Cocoa, Fl) have anything to say, that will change.
Both companies have teamed together to pool their resources. Seagate Space business focus is on floating launchpads, while Vaya is building & testing the Dauntless, a fully integrated hybrid rocket at its headquarters in Cocoa, Fl.
If this business model comes to fruition, there will be a working mobile launch system which would allow future launches beyond the current “fixed” launch systems by allowing a flexible plan of launching from various locations rapidly and how often.
Dauntless is utilizing a special patented Vortex-hybrid engine first tested and demonstrated in November, 2023. Its focus will be as a tactical missile for the Department of Defense with a capability of providing rapid “on-demand” services.
The second half of this equation revolves about Seagate Space’s Gateway platform. Reconfigurable (think Lego’s), unmanned has been designed for launches and the possibility exists of landings in the future if the need calls for it.
The Gulf of Mexico (America) is currently being eyed as the prime location for dispensing the Gateway. One of the key reasons being discussed is the ability to increase sun synchronous launches as an aid to Vandenberg
With land-based launch pads, launch patterns do not have the flexibility that the Seagate Space & Vaya Space business partnership can offer.
Washington D.C. ~
New, Improved & ready to send Starships on their way over the Atlantic Ocean. The Dept of the Air Force authorized Cape Canaveral Space Force Base SLC # 37 to be rebuilt to handle Starship.
The approval dictates how construction must be done, how nearby offices and personnel must be moved, roads widened to allow vehicles to carry the massive rockets. Included in the decision were one of the biggest fears that Brevard County residents had mentioned at open meetings, the environment, which is a Pandora’s Box of things, hurricanes, floods, noise, wildlife. SpaceX agreed to cover financial cost for habitats and safety rules covering endangered wildlife like Gopher Tortoises & Scrub Jays
People living in Brevard County can expect many more “sonic booms” changes in traffic patterns with the Space Force & SpaceX running point in maintaining a solid line of communications minimizing disruptions with other nearby space agencies as well as Port & beach authorities.
After the official announcement, SpaceX said “With three launch pads in Florida, Starship will be ready to support America’s national security and Artemis goals, as the world’s premier spaceport continues to evolve toward airport-like operations.”
Brevard County, Fl~
The Florida Department of Environmental Protection in a statement released on 3 December said the wastewater used by Blue Origin does not come in contact with any hazardous material or fuel.
Blue Origin’s existing permit has been in place for 5 years and is now being contested by numerous Brevard County residents at public comment meetings.
It should be noted that all water is monitored with results being sent to Florida’s DEP which tests and verifies strict quality standards. In addition, wastewater is discharged into a 9-acre retention pond with overflow safeguards.
This weeks launches:
12/06/2025 CASC* Long March 8 SatNet Wencheng, Site, China
12/05/2025 CASIC** VDES Jiuquan Launch Center, China
12/04/2025 SpaceX StarLink 11-25 Vandenberg SFB, Ca.
12/02/2025 Landspace ZQ-3 Jiuquan Launch Center, China
12/02/2025 SpaceX StarLink (6-95) Cape Canaveral SFB
12/02/2025 SpaceX StarLink 15-10 Vandenberg SFB, Ca.
12/01/2025 ArianeSpace KompSat-7 Guiana Space Center, French Guiana
12/01/2025 SpaceX StarLink 6-86 Kennedy Space Center, Fl
11/30/2025 Long March 7 Shijian 28 Wenchang Launch Site, China
*CASC China Aerospace Science & Technology Corporation
**CASIC China Aerospace Science & Industry Corporation
Article: Graham Smith Images: Courtesy of CGTN, China Daily News,
