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The International Space Station Marks 25 Years of Continuous Human Presence
Dec 02, 2025
On Nov. 2, 2025, NASA honored 25 years of continuous human presence aboard the International Space Station.
What began as a fragile framework of modules has evolved into a springboard for international cooperation, advanced scientific research and technology demonstrations, the development of a low Earth orbit economy, and NASA’s next great leaps in exploration, including crewed missions to the Moon and Mars.
The first expedition
This legacy of achievement in global human endeavors began with the first crew’s arrival to the space station on Nov. 2, 2000.
Expedition 1 crew members NASA astronaut William M. Shepherd and Russian Aviation and Space Agency, now Roscosmos, cosmonauts Yuri P. Gidzenko and Sergei K. Krikalev launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan two days prior.
After a successful docking, the crew transferred aboard the station and began bringing it to life.
Their primary tasks during their four-month mission included installing and activating the life support and communications systems and working with three visiting space shuttle crews to continue the station’s assembly.
The trio returned to Earth in March 2001 aboard space shuttle Discovery, after having turned the station over to the Expedition 2 crew.
(Space)walking into history
Assembly and maintenance of the International Space Station would not be possible without the skilled work of crew members performing intricate tasks, in bulky spacesuits, in the harsh environment of space.
In addition to station upkeep, spacewalks provide a platform for testing and improving spacesuits and tools – critical information for future exploration of the Moon and Mars. Other spacewalks have included operations for scientific research.
In Jan. 2025, for example, crew members collected samples for an investigation examining whether microorganisms have exited through station vents and can survive in space, to better inform spacecraft design that helps prevent human contamination of Mars and other destinations.
More than 270 spacewalks dedicated to the space station have been accomplished in the last quarter century. Several made station and human spaceflight history:
May 1999: NASA astronaut Tamara Jernigan became the first woman to complete a spacewalk at the space station, in support of its construction.
September 2000: Also during space station assembly, NASA astronaut Edward T. “Ed” Lu and Roscosmos cosmonaut Yuri I. Malenchenko conducted the first U.S.-Russian spacewalk.
March 10, 2001: NASA astronauts James Voss and Susan Helms set the record for longest spacewalk in U.S. history, at 8 hours and 56 minutes.
First spacewalks by international partners included:
April 2001 – Canadian Space Agency astronaut Chris Hadfield
July 2005 – Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Soichi Noguchi
Aug. 2006 – European Space Agency astronaut Thomas Reiter
Feb. 26, 2004: NASA astronaut Mike Foale and Russian cosmonaut Aleksandr Y. Kaleri complete the first spacewalk with no one inside the station.
Oct. 18, 2019: The first all-female spacewalk in history, conducted by NASA astronauts Christina Koch and Jessica Meir.
Orbiting laboratory welcomes first commercial crew
The International Space Station welcomed its first commercial crew members on May 31, 2020, when former NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley joined Expedition 63 Commander and NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy and Roscosmos cosmonauts Anatoly Ivanishin and Ivan Vagner aboard the orbiting laboratory.
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The International Space Station welcomed its first commercial crew members on May 31, 2020, when former NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley joined Expedition 63 Commander and NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy and Roscosmos cosmonauts Anatoly Ivanishin and Ivan Vagner aboard the orbiting laboratory.
Behnken and Hurley lifted off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida the day before on NASA’s SpaceX Demo-2 test flight – the first launch of American astronauts from U.S. soil since the space shuttle’s retirement in 2011.
The duo quickly integrated with the rest of the crew and participated in a number of scientific experiments, spacewalks, and public engagement events during their 62 days aboard station.
Overall, the pair spent 64 days in orbit, completed 1,024 orbits around Earth, and contributed more than 100 hours of time to supporting the orbiting laboratory’s investigations before splashing down on Aug. 2.
Successful completion of the Demo-2 mission paved the way for regular SpaceX flights carrying astronauts to and from the space station.
With another certified crew transportation system in place, the International Space Station Program added research time and increased the opportunity for discovery aboard humanity’s testbed for exploration, including preparations for human exploration of the Moon and Mars.
Frank Rubio’s record-breaking year in space
On Sept. 27, 2023, NASA astronaut Frank Rubio returned to Earth after spending 371 days aboard the International Space Station—the longest single spaceflight by a U.S. astronaut in history.
His mission surpassed the previous record of 355 days, set by NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei, and provided scientists with an unprecedented look at how the human body adapts to more than a year in microgravity.
Rubio’s record-setting mission supported six human research studies, including investigations into diet, exercise, and overall physiology and psychology.
He was the first astronaut to test whether limited workout equipment could still maintain health and fitness, an important consideration for future spacecraft with tighter living quarters.
He also contributed biological samples, surveys, and tests for NASA’s Spaceflight Standard Measures, a study that collects health data from astronauts to better understand how the body adapts to space—knowledge that helps prepare crews for the Artemis campaign to the Moon and future trips to Mars.
Alongside his fellow crew members, Rubio participated in dozens of investigations and technology demonstrations, from growing tomato plants with hydroponic and aeroponic techniques to materials science experiments that advance spacecraft design.
Long-duration missions help inform future spaceflight and lay the groundwork for the next era of human exploration.
A global foundation for growing a low Earth orbit economy
The space station is one of the most ambitious international collaborations ever attempted.
It brings together international flight crews, multiple launch vehicles, globally distributed launch and flight operations, training, engineering, and development facilities, communications networks, and the international scientific research community for the benefit of all humanity.
An international partnership of space agencies operates the elements of the orbiting laboratory: NASA, Roscosmos, ESA (European Space Agency), JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency), and CSA (Canadian Space Agency).
Each partner takes primary responsibility for managing and running the station hardware it provides, as well as on-Earth construction, launch support, mission operations, communications, and research and technology facilities that support the station.
At least 290 individuals representing 26 countries, and the five international partners have visited the orbiting laboratory during its 25 years of continuous human presence. Some of those visitors flew to the station on private astronaut missions.
These missions contribute to scientific, outreach, and commercial activities. They also help demonstrate the demand for future commercial space stations and are an important component of NASA’s strategy for enabling a robust and competitive commercial economy in low Earth orbit.
The results of the international partnership created through the space station and its accomplishments exemplifies how countries can work together to overcome complex challenges and achieve collaborative goals.
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Space Station First: All Docking Ports Fully Occupied, 8 Spacecraft on Orbit
December 1, 2025
For the first time in International Space Station history, all eight docking ports aboard the orbital outpost are occupied following the reinstallation of Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus XL cargo spacecraft to the Earth-facing port of the station’s Unity module.
The eight spacecraft attached to the complex are: two SpaceX Dragons, Cygnus XL, JAXA’s (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) HTV-X1, two Roscosmos Soyuz crew spacecraft, and two Progress cargo ships.
This milestone follows the reattachment of the Cygnus XL spacecraft, supporting the Northrop Grumman-23 commercial resupply services mission for NASA, which was removed last week by the robotics officer at the agency’s Mission Control Center in Houston using the space station’s Canadarm2 robotic arm. The Cygnus XL movement was coordinated between NASA, Northrop Grumman, and Roscosmos to provide appropriate clearance for the arriving crewed Soyuz MS-28 spacecraft on Nov. 27.
Cygnus will remain attached to the orbiting laboratory until no earlier than March 2026, when it is scheduled to safely depart and dispose of up to 11,000 pounds of trash and unneeded cargo when it harmlessly burns up in Earth’s atmosphere.
Meanwhile, the 10-person Expedition 73 crew filled its day with biology and physics research while preparing to split up early next week.
Three new residents are living aboard the space station following the arrival of the Soyuz MS-28 spacecraft on Thursday, Nov. 27, 2025.
NASA astronaut Chris Williams and Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and Sergei Mikaev will stay in space until July 2026, conducting advanced space research benefiting humans living on and off Earth.
Kud-Sverchkov and Mikaev have already begun studying how living in space affects the microcirculatory system in their hands, fingers, feet, and toes. Williams has been assisting his NASA crewmates with cargo activities.
On Dec. 8, the orbital outpost will return to seven members and become the Expedition 74 crew when NASA astronaut Jonny Kim and Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Alexey Zubritsky enter the Soyuz MS-27 spacecraft, undock from the Prichal module, and parachute to a landing in Kazakhstan.
The trio performed pressure and leak checks on the Sokol launch and entry suits they will wear next week for the ride back to Earth.
Ryzhikov continued packing cargo inside the Earth-bound Soyuz, while Zubritsky began handing over his responsibilities to his new Roscosmos crewmates.
Kim, Ryzhikov, and Zubritsky are nearing the end of an eight-month space science mission that began on April 8, 2025.
Kim also joined his new crewmate Williams and NASA Flight Engineer Zena Cardman to open the Cygnus XL hatch following its reattachment Monday morning.
The crew will continue unpacking some of the several tons of new science and supplies Cygnus XL delivered on Sept. 18.
Flight Engineers Mike Fincke and Kimiya Yui spent their day focusing on space research to learn about phenomena that can only be studied in the weightless environment of microgravity.
Fincke, from NASA, first swapped computer hardware supporting a physics experiment that is studying ways to preserve cryogenic fluids in spacecraft fuel tanks.
Next, he configured the new NanoRacks Thailand Liquid Crystals experiment, which will observe changes in the formation of flat liquid crystal films in microgravity.
Yui, from JAXA, studied how the brain regulates its blood flow. He measured both his cerebral artery blood flow and blood pressure to help doctors understand potential space-related issues.
Flight Engineer Oleg Platonov spent Monday collecting, processing, and photographing microbe samples gathered throughout the station’s Roscosmos segment for analysis.
He also transferred data highlighting the vibrations the station experiences while orbiting Earth to a laptop computer.
https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/spacestation/2025/12/01/space-station-first-all-docking-ports-fully-occupied-8-spacecraft-on-orbit/
Sagittarius B2 Molecular Cloud
Dec 01, 2025
The Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) on NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope captured glowing cosmic dust heated by very young massive stars in unprecedented detail in this image of the Sagittarius B2 (Sgr B2) molecular cloud released on Sept. 24, 2025.
Sgr B2 is the most massive, and active star-forming region in our galaxy, located only a few hundred light years from our central supermassive black hole.
While Sgr B2 has only 10% of the galactic center’s gas, it produces 50% of its stars. Astronomers want to figure out why it is so much more active than the rest of the galactic center.
MIRI has both a camera and a spectrograph that sees light in the mid-infrared region of the electromagnetic spectrum. MIRI’s view reveals colorful stars punctuated occasionally by bright clouds of gas and dust.
Further research into these stars will reveal details of their masses and ages, which will help astronomers better understand the process of star formation in this dense, active galactic center region.
https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/sagittarius-b2-molecular-cloud/
NASA Wallops to Support December Sounding Rocket Launch Operations
December 1, 2025
NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia is supporting sounding rocket launch operations during a window extending from Dec. 2-9, 2025. The launch window each day will be 7:45 a.m.- 12 p.m. EST.
No real-time launch status updates will be available. The launch will not be livestreamed.
https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/wallops/2025/12/01/nasa-wallops-to-support-december-sounding-rocket-launch-operations/
The U.S. Senate vs. the Athena Plan — NASA on trial
December 2, 2025
On December 3, 2025, the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation will hold a hearing to examine the re-nomination of Mr. Jared Isaacman for NASA Administrator.
A central issue at the Hearing will be the implications of Mr. Isaacman’s leaked “Project Athena Strategic Plan” (the Plan), which outlines potential reasons for and actions to reform NASA.
Some Senators likely believe implementation of the Athena Plan would be harmful to the civil space program and NASA interests in their states.
I believe the plan should be taken very seriously as it provides an opportunity to openly debate NASA’s purpose and priorities in a new era of space competition.
The top five issues that the Senate and Isaacman should focus on are:
#1 – NASA leadership and re-organization. NASA has many challenges in executing missions on-time, on-budget and with technical excellence. NASA has too often become “institution-driven” and not “mission-driven.”
The Plan’s core message calls for NASA leadership and reorganization to be driven by mission performance; strengthening the agency’s focus on mission outcomes.
#2 – Cancellation of selected exploration and science programs. Senators are understandably concerned with the potential disruption from cancellations; to include loss of key personnel, damage to specialized supply chains, and local economic harm.
According to Isaacman, the Plan is not cancellation-focused. Instead, it builds on both past and current government and commercial space initiatives. He argues that American space leadership relies on adaptability and long-term planning to benefit the nation.
NASA personnel and facilities should serve evolving national purposes and not be maintained by inertia.
#3 – Shifting leadership in low Earth orbit from government to commercial initiatives. The International Space Station (ISS) is a magnificent achievement, but a new era of multiple commercial platforms is at hand.
Isaacman has stated clearly that the ISS will not be retired earlier than scheduled as there is much work still to be done.
NASA can support new economic growth by being a reliable customer for LEO facilities, funding cutting-edge R&D and expanding new international partnerships.
#4 – New approaches to NASA leadership in science. Senators have been hearing from scientists and space advocates about administration-proposed cuts to science, to include climate monitoring.
Isaacman has a personal record of supporting and benefiting from scientific research. His draft Plan emphasizes the continued importance of science across NASA’s core mission areas.
He can rightly contend that NASA has ventured into some fields that are the responsibility of other agencies, and the Plan seeks to realign NASA’s science focus on those missions that only NASA can effectively accomplish.
Other U.S. agencies, international partners and the private sector offer opportunities to do more in space-based research.
#5 – The Plan recommends a “Starfleet Academy.”
The Plan argues for a new, non-defense-oriented academy focused on multi-level skill development for peaceful and commercial U.S. space activities, proposing investment now to build sustained generational aerospace benefits.
Notwithstanding the idealistic name, Senators will reasonably ask whether a new institution would duplicate existing service academies, colleges, and universities in space-related education. What would be new?
Release of the draft Athena plan was unintended by Isaacman, but it has drawn attention to the fundamental roles of NASA.
While he should expect tough questioning from the Senators, the hearing is an opportunity for Isaacman to argue his vision for the U.S. future in space and how it serves national interests.
There continues to be a bipartisan consensus about human space exploration, first to the moon and then to Mars. There is agreement on the foundational role of private industry and the importance of international partners.
The real debate is over how to implement national space policy and what NASA’s roles should be.
The hearing will be a success if the Senators and Isaacman can avoid becoming bogged down in the details of the Athena Plan; but instead focus on how NASA can boldly implement reforms and initiatives to create a space program worthy of a great nation.
https://spacenews.com/the-u-s-senate-vs-the-athena-plan-nasa-on-trial/
https://nasawatch.com/ask-the-administrator/former-astronauts-voice-support-for-isaacman/
https://www.space.com/space-exploration/round-2-watch-senate-hearing-for-jared-isaacmans-re-nomination-as-nasa-chief-on-dec-3
https://www.devdiscourse.com/article/technology/3717275-nasa-chief-nominee-isaacman-to-push-for-nuclear-propulsion-in-second-hearing
https://www.commerce.senate.gov/2025/11/chairman-cruz-announces-nominations-hearing-for-nasa-and-commerce-nominees
Nuclear plant cleanup to be transformed with NASA’s 3D radiation detector tech
Dec 02, 2025 08:40 AM EST
German researchers have adapted a technology originally designed for space telescopes to make detecting radioactive contamination in dismantled nuclear power plants faster, more precise, and far more efficient.
Led by Thomas Siegert, PhD, a nuclear physicist and space expert from the Chair of Astronomy at the Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg (JMU), the scientists collaborated with several industry and academic partners to develop the novel software.
The team’s project, scintLaCHARM, was supported by the German Federal Ministry of Research, Technology, and Space (BMFTR) under the FORKA program, with nearly USD 2.3 million (EUR 2 million) in funding.
The novel method could significantly accelerate the long and costly process of decommissioning nuclear plants. It also reduces workers’ exposure risks and protects surrounding communities.
Precision from space
Before a nuclear plant can be decommissioned, every surface must be checked for radioactive contamination. This is particularly important for areas near the reactor, where radioactive particles can be absorbed into the building fabric.
However, the process is slow, expensive, and dependent on bulky semiconductor detectors that must be cooled to -328 degrees Fahrenheit (-200 degrees Celsius) using liquid nitrogen.
These can measure a few square meters per room within an hour before moving on to the next measuring point.
“If you imagine this for an entire room and then for a whole hall-sized facility, you realise how inefficient and time-consuming this method is,” Siegert stated.
To address the challenge, the research team developed an alternative technique based on scintillation detectors, lightweight crystals used for decades in orbiting instruments to detect radioactive elements in space.
Siegert said they engineered satellite-grade technology into cameras capable of mapping contamination within nuclear facilities. The cameras use multiple scintillation crystals that light up when gamma radiation from radioactive decay strikes them.
“If this causes more than one crystal to light up, i.e., if it scatters from one detector to another, the direction and energy of the radiation can be determined,” Siegert pointed out.
Sharper radiation insights
As per Siegert, all measured entry and deflection angles between the crystals indicate what radioactive material is involved and where it is located. “Particles of the same element always have the same energy, which means they can be clearly assigned,” he added.
After several hours of detections, supported by supercomputer processing, the camera produces a detailed 3D image that highlights all radiation-contaminated areas in the room.
This allows contaminated and uncontaminated materials to be reliably distinguished and broken down.
The software is also supported by Uwe Gerd Oberlack, PhD, a physics professor at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, who is part of NASA’s COSI gamma-ray telescope mission.
The researchers now intend to integrate AI into the system. They believe it could help separate natural background radiation from true contamination, boosting the overall accuracy of the process.
“Very weak natural radioactive radiation exists everywhere on Earth,” Siegert said in a press release. “It varies in intensity depending on the location. It can interfere with the measurements as background noise.”
https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/nuclear-plant-cleanup-with-space-tech
https://www.uni-wuerzburg.de/en/news-and-events/einblick/single/news/space-nuclear-power-plant/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KUuUh8uaLo (How Small Modular Reactors Are Shaping the Future of Energy)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1r_WPtqLp0 (Good News for Small Nuclear Reactors!)
New state of quantum matter could power future space tech
December 2, 2025
Researchers at the University of California, Irvine have identified a previously unobserved form of quantum matter.
According to the team, this state arises inside a specially engineered material that may one day support self-charging computers and technologies capable of operating in the harsh environment of deep space.
"It's a new phase of matter, similar to how water can exist as liquid, ice or vapor," said Luis A. Jauregui, professor of physics & astronomy at UC Irvine and corresponding author of the new Physical Review Letters.
"It's only been theoretically predicted – no one has ever measured it until now."
Exotic Electron Behavior and Exciton Formation
In this phase, electrons and positively charged "holes" come together to form a fluid-like mixture that creates unusual structures known as excitons.
What makes this discovery especially striking is that the electrons and holes rotate in the same direction. "It's its own new thing," Jauregui said. "If we could hold it in our hands, it would glow a bright, high-frequency light."
The phenomenon was found in a material produced at UC Irvine by postdoctoral researcher Jinyu Liu, the study's first author.
Jauregui's group detected the phase at the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) in New Mexico while studying the material under intense magnetic conditions.
Magnetic Fields Trigger the New Quantum Phase
Creating this quantum state required exposing the material to magnetic fields of up to 70 Teslas (by comparison, the magnetic field from a strong fridge magnet is around 0.1 Teslas). The team refers to the material as hafnium pentatelluride.
As the magnetic field increased, the researchers observed a sharp drop in the material's electrical conductivity. Jauregui explained that this sudden change indicated the system had shifted into the exotic exciton state.
"This discovery is important because it may allow signals to be carried by spin rather than electrical charge, offering a new path toward energy-efficient technologies like spin-based electronics or quantum devices."
Radiation-Resistant Properties for Space Exploration
This newly observed quantum matter is not affected by radiation, a trait that sets it apart from many materials used in today's electronic devices. The team believes this could be significant for space applications.
"It could be useful for space missions," Jauregui said. "If you want computers in space that are going to last, this is one way to make that happen."
Companies such as SpaceX are working toward future human missions to Mars, and any long-duration spaceflight will require electronics that can handle continuous radiation exposure.
"We don't know yet what possibilities will open as a result," Jauregui said.
The material was synthesized, characterized and incorporated into testable devices at UC Irvine by Jinyu Liu with assistance from graduate students Robert Welser and Timothy McSorley, and undergraduate researcher Triet Ho.
Theoretical modeling and interpretation were contributed by Shizeng Lin, Varsha Subramanyan, and Avadh Saxena at LANL.
High-magnetic-field experiments were carried out with support from Laurel Winter and Michael T. Pettes at LANL and David Graf at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory in Florida.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/11/251130205501.htm
Fergani’s historic leap: Türkiye’s 1st hybrid-engine orbital vehicle reaches space
December 02, 2025 11:01 AM GMT+03:00
Fergani Space’s first indigenously developed orbital transfer vehicle (OTV), FGN-TUG-S01, has successfully reached space and begun its mission, marking a historic milestone for Türkiye’s space program.
The vehicle is set to ignite the world’s first hybrid rocket engine in orbit, according to the company.
Launched aboard SpaceX Falcon 9
FGN-TUG-S01 was launched on Nov. 28, 2025, at 9:44 p.m. Turkish time from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, aboard the SpaceX Falcon 9 Transporter-15 rideshare mission.
After the rocket’s first and second stage separation, the OTV detached 81 minutes after payload separation, at 11:05 p.m. Turkish time, officially beginning its journey in space.
Founded by Baykar Chairman and CTO Selcuk Bayraktar, Fergani Space developed the OTV using its own resources and fully indigenous capabilities.
World’s first hybrid engine ignition in orbit planned
FGN-TUG-S01 brings together two major firsts: Türkiye’s first orbital transfer vehicle and the world’s first hybrid rocket engine designed for ignition in orbit.
Once it reaches its mission orbit, the vehicle will fire its hybrid engine for the first time, a global and national first in space history.
With its hybrid propulsion system, the OTV will enable satellites to be transported to different orbits at lower cost and with increased mission longevity.
Supporting Türkiye’s inter-orbital logistics ambitions
The mission marks a key step in Fergani Space’s future constellation operations.
FGN-TUG-S01 will transfer satellites from low Earth orbit (about 500 kilometers) to altitudes exceeding 1,000 kilometers (621.3 miles).
Critical systems, including the flight computer, avionics, power distribution units, and thermal control, were designed and manufactured by Fergani Space engineers.
With this mission, Türkiye becomes the first nation to test a hybrid engine in orbit.
Bayraktar: 'A new phase of space mobility begins'
The launch was monitored live from the Ozdemir Bayraktar National Technology Center by Fergani Space CEO Selcuk Bayraktar and the engineering team.
“Founded in 2022, Fergani Space continues its work today with a team of 135,” Bayraktar said.
“Our second satellite recently began its mission. And today, our country’s first orbital transfer vehicle, developed entirely with our own resources, has reached space.”
Bayraktar added that the OTV’s fully indigenous systems represent a major step toward Türkiye’s space mobility capability.
Goal: Independent access to space
Bayraktar said the mission lays the groundwork for Türkiye’s planned Ulugbey Global Positioning System and future satellite fleets.
“Our goal is to make Türkiye and its friends and sister nations capable of independent positioning and space logistics capabilities within the next five years with more than 100 satellites,” he said.
He noted that Fergani Space is also working on launch systems to secure independent access from Earth to space.
“May this project be beneficial and auspicious for our homeland, our nation, and all of our friends and brothers and sisters,” Bayraktar added.
https://www.turkiyetoday.com/nation/baykar-breaks-new-ground-turkiyes-first-hybrid-engine-otv-begins-space-mission-3210691
SpaceX Starlink Mission
December 2, 2025
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 is targeting the launch of 29 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
A live webcast of this mission will begin about five minutes prior to liftoff, which you can watch here and on X @SpaceX. You can also watch the webcast on the X TV app.
This will be the 25th flight for the first stage booster supporting this mission, which previously launched Crew-5, GPS III Space Vehicle 06, Inmarsat I6-52, CRS-28, Intelsat G-37, NG-20, TD7, and 17 Starlink missions.
Following stage separation, the first stage will land on the A Shortfall of Gravitas droneship, which will be stationed in the Atlantic Ocean.
https://www.spacex.com/launches/sl-6-95
https://www.airandspaceforces.com/f-16-pilot-silver-star-yemen-harrowing-mission/
F-16 Pilot Awarded Silver Star for Dodging Surface-to-Air Missiles over Yemen
Dec. 1, 2025
An F-16 pilot was awarded a Silver Star Medal for a harrowing mission in which he dodged multiple surface-to-air missiles during the opening weeks of the operation against the Houthi rebels in Yemen earlier this year.
Lt. Col. William “Skate” Parks, the former commander of the 480th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron, was awarded the Silver Star, the nation’s third-highest award for valor, for his actions during a mission on March 27.
Parks was decorated with the Silver Star and a Bronze Star Medal by Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Kenneth S. Wisbach in a ceremony at the Pentagon on Nov. 26.
An Air Force news release and Parks’ award citation refer to the mission as taking place in the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility, which encompasses the Middle East. U.S. officials familiar with the matter told Air & Space Forces Magazine that the episode took place over Yemen.
The Air Force’s timeline and description of events match details of the U.S. campaign against the Houthis.
The Trump administration stepped up its air campaign against the group on March 15 with the launch of Operation Rough Rider before agreeing to a ceasefire with the group in early May.
The mission on March 27 was to destroy ballistic missile production facilities, consisting of a strike package of 21 aircraft. Parks, acting as the mission commander, led four F-16s on a Suppression of Enemy Air Defense mission.
The 480th Fighter Squadron, based at Spangdahlem Air Base, Germany, specializes in SEAD missions.
According to the award citation, which the service provided to Air & Space Forces Magazine, Parks “intentionally placed himself in threat range of a complex air defense zone protecting the enemy’s capital,” an apparent reference to the Yemeni capital of Sanaa, which is held by the Houthis.
“However, the consequence of his deliberate actions was a barrage of precisely targeted enemy air defense missiles and anti-aircraft artillery aimed towards his F-16 flight.”
Parks and his wingmen narrowly fought off the barrage. For the next 15 minutes, Parks and his F-16 flight fought off enemy missiles with high-G maneuvers and by deploying anti-missile countermeasures, with “enemy missiles detonating mere feet from his aircraft,” the award citation states.
By this point, however, Parks was “below minimum fuel and still within enemy territory,” and Parks coordinated for an “emergency rendezvous” with two tankers, “preventing the probable loss of two aircraft due to fuel starvation,” according to the award citation.
“His courageous and steadfast actions directly contributed to the survival of his wingman and himself,” the award citation adds.
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Parks, who is currently assigned to Air Force Vice Chief of Staff’s office at the Pentagon, recalled the mission during the ceremony, in an account provided by the Air Force.
“That loneliness settles in, even though it seems like it’s all happening fast, you just feel that moment where ‘I’m feeling very alone out here tonight,” Parks said. “And then that transitioned very quickly to elation.
As I got a little bit closer, the [command and control] agencies and the Air Force team started picking me up and my requests of ‘Hey, I need help! We’re out of gas. I need tankers moved.’”
Twelve F-16s from Spangdahlem were deployed to the Middle East for eight months, from October 2024 to July 2025, and had an important role in Operation Prosperity Guardian, the Biden administration’s campaign against the Houthis, and Operation Rough Rider, among other missions, according to people familiar with the deployment and an Air Force account of the operations the squadron participated in.
The Air Force said in a release that Parks defended against five surface-to-air missile engagements, though it did not specify when each attack occurred, and did not say precisely how many missiles were fired at his flight of F-16s during the March 27 mission.
During their deployment, the 480th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron recorded 108 air-to-air victories against drones and land-attack cruise missiles.
That included using AWKPS II AGR-20 FALCO laser-guided rockets to shoot down drones and older AIM-9M air-to-air missiles, employing them in combat for the first time in 30 years, according to the Air Force.
Air & Space Forces Magazine has previously reported on the novel effort to use laser-guided rockets to down Houthi drones, and they are now a preferred method for Air Force aircraft in the Middle East to take down drone salvos more cheaply while having more munitions at hand.
In previous drone barrages, most notably a large-scale drone salvo launched by Iran at Israel in April 2024, F-15E Strike Eagles and F-16s depleted their stocks of pricey AIM-9X and AIM-120 AMRAAM missiles.
During the deployment, Parks had six air-to-air kills, which the Air Force said were scored protecting the roughly 5,000 sailors aboard the aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman.
The Truman’s deployment roughly overlapped with that of the 480th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron, and the carrier provided the primary strike aircraft for attacks against the Houthis while it operated off the coast of Yemen.
The ship was often a target of Houthi drone attacks.
“It’s a rare day when someone earns a Silver Star, with less than 100 being earned during the Air Force era,” Wilsbach said during the ceremony.
“After hearing Skate’s story, his leadership, decisive action, and skill in the face of danger, I absolutely believe he deserves this honor. Recognizing valor in combat matters, and it is a privilege to serve alongside warfighters like him.”
Parks comes from a family of Airmen. His father was an Air Force test pilot, and his uncle was an F-111 weapons system officer, while his cousin is a KC-135 Stratotanker and C-17 Globemaster III pilot, and his brother flies the C-146 Wolfhound.
“It is incredible, and this means a lot,” Parks said. “The amount of aviation and everything that we have in our family, that’s what shaped me and helped mold me.”
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Russian-flagged tanker attacked in Black Sea – Türkiye
2 Dec, 2025 08:51
A Russian-flagged tanker en route to Georgia has been attacked in the Black Sea, Turkish officials have said. Last week, Russian authorities accused Kiev of carrying out drone attacks on commercial vessels in the area.
In a statement on Tuesday, Türkiye’s Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure's General Directorate of Maritime Affairs said the MIDVOLGA-2 tanker, which was carrying sunflower oil, reported being attacked about 80 miles (120km) off the country’s coast.
“The ship, which currently has no adverse conditions among its 13 personnel, has issued no request for assistance. The ship is proceeding towards Sinop on its own engines,” officials said, without identifying the culprit behind the strike.
Later, Russia’s Federal Agency for Sea and Inland Water Transport said that the vessel had been attacked by a drone and had sustained some minor damage.
Last week, several explosives-laden sea drones struck two Gambian-flagged tankers – the Kairos and the Virat – off Türkiye’s coast, an assault Ukrainian media sources have described as a joint operation involving the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) and Kiev’s navy.
In addition, a suspected Ukrainian drone attacked a crude hub on Russia’s Black Sea coast belonging to the Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC), operated by Russia, Kazakhstan, the US, and several Western European nations.
Moscow has denounced the raids as “terrorist attacks,” with Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov also accusing Ukraine of encroaching on Turkish sovereignty.
While Ankara refrained from assigning blame, Turkish Foreign Ministry spokesman Oncu Keceli said the “incidents, which took place within our Exclusive Economic Zone in the Black Sea, have posed serious risks to navigation, human life, property and the environment.”
https://www.rt.com/news/628755-russian-tanker-attacked-black-sea/
https://twitter.com/denizcilikgm/status/1995740033488228618
https://www.rt.com/russia/628696-zakharova-condemns-ukrainian-attacks-energy-infrastructure/
Majority of Reported Drone Incidents in Europe Not Linked to Russia – Trouw
December 2, 2025
The vast majority of recent reports of drone activity across Europe have not shown any evidence of Russian involvement, according to analysis by the Dutch newspaper Trouw, undercutting warnings from some European officials who have suggested Moscow was likely behind the incidents.
Out of approximately 60 reported sightings in 11 countries from August to November, only four — in Poland, Romania and Moldova — involved confirmed Russian drones that were either shot down by NATO aircraft or identified through recovered debris, the newspaper reported.
Trouw, which reviewed dozens of incidents using the platform Dronewatch, said the origin of 40 reported sightings could not be verified at all, with no visual, radar or debris evidence to confirm a drone’s presence.
At least 14 reports were later attributed to ordinary aircraft, helicopters, ships or even stars. A map compiled by Trouw showed three hobby or tourist drones and 11 other objects that were ultimately deemed not to be drones.
Those findings jar with recent statements from European officials, including Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson and his Danish counterpart Mette Frederiksen, both of whom suggested Russia could be behind suspected drone flights over Scandinavia.
NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte cautioned in September that the source of the reported sightings remained unclear.
The Kremlin has repeatedly denied any involvement.
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/12/02/majority-of-reported-drone-incidents-in-europe-not-linked-to-russia-trouw-a91306
other Russia and Ukraine
https://caspianpost.com/regions/drone-attack-causes-major-fire-at-russian-oil-refinery
https://londonlovesbusiness.com/special-operations-forces-launch-a-brilliant-strike-at-a-drone-storage-facility-in-crimea/
https://en.defence-ua.com/news/ukrainian_drones_hit_military_unit_of_kadyrovs_forces_and_fsb_building_in_russias_chechnya-16682.html
https://empr.media/news/war/russian-strike-odesa-region-damages-energy-facility-and-civilian-buildings/
https://kyivindependent.com/ukraine-war-latest-update-2025-12-2/
https://news.ssbcrack.com/ukraine-unveils-advanced-fpv-drone-to-enhance-frontline-capabilities/
https://www.kyivpost.com/post/65402
https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-ato/4065027-paratroopers-destroy-russian-drone-during-reconnaissance-mission.html
https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-ato/4064979-volunteer-severely-wounded-in-drone-attack-in-kherson-region.html
https://bdnews24.com/world/eac912e75744
IDF reveals: Hezbollah killed individuals who threatened to expose its involvement in the Beirut Port explosion
latest revision December 02, 2025 at 09:12 AM
IDF spokesperson in Arabic Avichay Adraee posted to X on Tuesday, publishing that the IDF has revealed how Hezbollah’s Unit 121 eliminated several individuals who threatened to expose Hezbollah’s involvement in the Beirut Port explosion of August 2020.
The report uncovered that Hezbollah’s Unit 121 assassinated four Lebanese public figures—out of concern that they would expose that the August 2020 Beirut Port explosion was caused by the storage of ammonium nitrate used by Hezbollah.
The individuals eliminated were officers in the Customs Department and journalists who had pointed to the link between Hezbollah and the explosion.
One such individual, Joseph Skaff, who served as the head of the Customs Department at the Beirut Port, was thrown from a great height to his death by operatives of Unit 121 in 2017, following his request to remove Hezbollah’s ammonium nitrate from the port.
This nitrate was what ultimately led to the explosion.
Another Lebanese casualty, Mounir Abu Rjeili, who served as the head of the anti-smuggling unit in the Customs Administration, was stabbed to death by operatives of the Hezbollah unit in December 2020, following information he provided about the link between Hezbollah and the explosion at the port.
Joe Bejjani, a photographer who was among the first to document the explosion site and was employed by the Lebanese Armed Forces to assist in the investigation, was shot to death in his vehicle in December 2020 by operatives of the Hezbollah unit, who also stole his phone before fleeing the scene.
Lastly, Lokman Slim, a political activist and journalist who frequently criticized Hezbollah, was also shot to death in his vehicle in February 2021 by operatives of the Hezbollah unit, shortly after he accused Hezbollah and the Assad regime of causing the explosion in an interview.
In all four cases, Hezbollah denied its involvement in the murders, and the investigations into them were not completed.
These cases join the eliminations of Rafik al-Hariri and Elias al-Hatzrani that were previously revealed, as well as a long list not yet revealed to the public, the post stated.
"Lebanese civilians have clearly expressed that they will not allow the Hezbollah terrorist organization to continue oppressing and harming them.
In parallel to the actions the IDF is taking against the organization’s attempts to rebuild itself, it will continue to expose Hezbollah's brutal actions against the Lebanese public," the IDF spokesman concluded in the post.
https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/middle-east/levant-turkey/artc-idf-reveals-hezbollah-killed-individuals-who-threatened-to-expose-its-involvement-in-the-beirut-port-explosion
https://x.com/i/web/status/1995895868709339546
other Israel
https://vinnews.com/2025/12/02/idf-eliminates-three-palestinian-terror-operatives-who-breached-security-lines-in-gaza/
https://www.jns.org/idf-raids-offices-of-terror-linked-palestinian-ngo/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/suspected-car-ramming-assailant-killed-by-idf-overnight-identified-as-17-year-old/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/one-said-killed-by-idf-in-central-gaza/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/palestinian-terror-operative-killed-in-gaza-drone-strike-idf-says/
https://www.yahoo.com/news/videos/idf-demolishes-homes-people-says-161518661.html
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/418691
https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/idf-receives-findings-from-red-cross-pms-office-says-following-hamas-handover-id-unclear/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/focusing-on-ai-and-electronic-warfare-idf-restructures-computer-service-directorate/
https://www.israelhayom.com/2025/12/02/mike-waltz-to-israel-hayom-idf-also-fighting-for-our-values/
RCMP restricts use of Chinese-made drones — the vast majority of its fleet
Dec 02, 2025 1:00 AM PST
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police is limiting the use of its 973 Chinese-made drones to non-sensitive operations, stating the devices present "high security risks, primarily due to their country of origin."
Chinese drones make up about 80 per cent of the federal police force's fleet of 1,230 remotely piloted aircraft systems (RPAS), which are used to monitor the Canada-U.S. border and in various police operations.
In a written response to the national security committee of the Senate, the RCMP said replacing the drones would cost over $30 million, approximately $35,000 per device.
The high cost is related to the fact that non-Chinese drones are nearly twice as expensive, the RCMP said.
The RCMP’s concerns flow from potential risks related to the drone’s communication and data-transmission systems, experts said.
"Any connected device raises questions about security vulnerabilities," said Ygal Bendavid, a professor specialized in operations management at the Université du Québec à Montréal.
Wesley Wark of the Centre for International Governance Innovation said the RCMP seems to have found the right solutions to its use of Chinese drones, adding that "mitigation after the fact is always a second-best option."
For now, the RCMP is restricting the drones' in-flight transmission of data and dedicating them to "non-sensitive operations," such as those involving missing persons, car thefts and community policing.
The RCMP said it never uses Chinese drones for activities involving emergency response teams, the protection of VIPs such as ministers and foreign dignitaries, border integrity operations and investigations with U.S. authorities.
For these more sensitive operations, the RCMP relies on 112 French drones, 96 from the United States and 24 from Belgium.
It does not use any Canadian drones, according to the response to questions from Conservative Sen. Claude Carignan.
The RCMP says the Chinese drones were purchased before it began restricting their use in 2023. It says the devices offer significant savings in time and money, especially compared to planes or helicopters.
"The use of RPAS is a cost-effective alternative to deploying a helicopter or fixed-wing aircraft for investigative operations, and they can access difficult locations, saving time and money by directing police resources to the right locations," said the RCMP in its response to the Senate committee.
Experts said the RCMP needs to be cautious when it comes to Chinese drones, given it cannot vouch for the origin of thousands of parts, software and data-storage systems.
"The concern is legitimate and as a precautionary measure, they have to be careful," said Bendavid.
Wark said that the RCMP seems to have purchased drones "without much thought to strategic needs or security issues."
"In future, all drone purchases by federal agencies for security purposes should be centralized and security vulnerability tests should be performed on them as a matter of course," Wark said.
"Purchases of small drones for security purposes should prioritize Canadian manufacturers and supply chains."
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/rcmp-restricts-chinese-drones-9.6999268
https://thedebrief.org/ualbany-project-x-how-a-team-of-new-york-physicists-is-launching-a-cutting-edge-investigation-into-aerial-mysteries/
https://www.albany.edu/news-center/news/2025-ualbany-receives-major-gift-advance-scientific-research-unidentified-aerial
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0376042125000259
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0376042125000247
https://x.com/MicahHanks
“UAlbany Project X”: How a Team of New York Physicists is Launching a Cutting-Edge Investigation into Aerial Mysteries
December 2, 2025
Physicists at the University of Albany, New York, have announced a new research initiative—dubbed UAlbany Project X—that marks the beginning of a long-term scientific study of unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP).
The new project, officially launched last month, was made possible by an endowment gift that will provide ongoing funding for the team’s scientific investigation of aerial mysteries, which are currently also being investigated in a separate effort by the Pentagon’s All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO).
Kevin Knuth, Ph.D., a professor of physics at the University of Albany and one of the new project’s lead scientists, told The Debrief that UAlbany Project X (UAPx) is an outgrowth of many years of ongoing research that he and his colleagues behind the new effort have already undertaken.
“We’ve been working on studying UAP scientifically for about seven years now,” Knuth explained, adding that his entry into the study of aerial mysteries began with an examination of the many decades of information that have been collected on the topic.
“I started by just doing what a physicist ought to do, which is getting your head around the problem,” Knuth told The Debrief.
This ultimately led to his collaboration with scientists from the Scientific Coalition for UAP Studies to author a 2019 paper that estimated the minimum speeds and accelerations of UAP observed in several notable cases.
Among these was a 2004 incident involving an object observed by U.S. Navy personnel aboard the USS Nimitz (CVN-68) during training exercises off the southern California coast.
Footage of the object, popularly known today as the “Tic Tac,” was obtained by an FA/18 Super Hornet pilot named Chad Underwood and subsequently leaked online.
In 2020, the Pentagon confirmed the footage was authentic in an official release accompanied by two other historic videos purportedly depicting UAP, while noting that the object in the 2004 video remained “unidentified.”
That incident, Knuth says, had been part of what led him and fellow University of Albany physicist and associate professor Matthew Szydagis, along with several colleagues, to conduct a field expedition in 2021 off the coast of Santa Catalina Island with a non-profit scientific research organization called UAPx.
“We worked to have an updated collection mission over the Catalina Channel where the Nimitz Encounter occurred,” Knuth told The Debrief, during which the University of Albany researchers collected observable-light and infrared imagery, and other data that helped them develop a framework for the scientific documentation of UAP.
That work culminated in a paper by Szydagis and co-authored by Knuth and their colleague, University of Albany associate professor Cecilia Levy—the core of the new UAlbany Project X initiative—published in Progress in Aerospace Sciences earlier this year.
“This was a really seminal paper,” Szydagis told The Debrief, describing it as “a summary of UAPx’s first results from the Catalina-Laguna mission.”
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“I can count on the fingers of one hand the number of scientists who have gotten their work on the UAP topic published in such a high-caliber journal,” Szydagis said.
A second co-authored paper on the history of the UAP subject, with Knuth as the lead author, had appeared in the same edition of the journal, along with a separate study by Luc Dini, Geoffrey Mestchersky, and Jacques Vallée that provided estimates of energy values associated with a historic UAP incident.
“It’s a highly reputable journal that is cited by a lot of other scientists,” Szydagis said. “And yet, nobody talked about either that paper or Kevin’s history paper.”
“In the UAPx paper, we did something that we thought would be considered very important,” Szydagis said. “We concluded the paper with suggestions on how to quantify the meaning of extraordinary evidence, and very few people seem to be paying attention to that.”
Today, while UAP—or UFOs, as they are traditionally known—often succeed in dominating prime time television news segments, podcasts, and occasionally even mainstream publications like The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and other peer-reviewed journals like Nature: Scientific Reports, the majority of the attention the subject receives goes toward the question of government secrecy, and how much more the U.S. intelligence community may know about UAP than it has disclosed to the public.
Such questions had been the focus of a recent documentary, The Age of Disclosure, by filmmaker Dan Farah, in which a trove of current and past U.S. government officials that included Marco Rubio, currently serving as U.S. Secretary of State, and James Clapper, former Director of National Intelligence, spoke on the record about the issue of transparency regarding information collected about UAP.
Yet, while the question over government secrecy involving UAP commands much of the attention in the media cycle, that isn’t to say that the work of scientists—particularly those with the University of Albany team—had been overlooked by everyone.
Enter Tony Gorman, a well-known Albany-area businessman with many years of experience who was previously a co-owner of The Gorman Group, a family-owned highway construction company that has operated in the area for many decades.
Gorman had seen a short local news story about the UAP research Knuth, Szydagis, and Levy were conducting at the University of Albany, which prompted him to reach out to the team to help ensure an ongoing source of funding for their work.
“I have always been curious about UAPs and what could possibly be out there,” Gorman said in a statement. “When I saw the UAP research the UAlbany team is doing, I wanted to learn more.”
Gorman reached out and, after a series of discussions with the UAlbany researchers, decided to put his money behind their scientific efforts.
“I gained so much respect for their work,” Gorman said. “Right there, I knew I wanted to get involved.”
“We received this donation from Tony Gorman,” Knuth told The Debrief. “A generous donation, which basically funds us for five years, and in addition to that, sets up an endowment that funds us in perpetuity.”
“So we’re here to stay.” “We have money to help sustain us for the long term,” Szydagis told The Debrief. “With Tony’s very generous gift, we have the potential ability to be working on UAP for the rest of our lives.”
As for what the team specifically plans to work on, Szydagis explained that part of its plan is to leverage knowledge from past research while carefully plotting a course forward through strategic investigations that will help the physicists expand the data they are collecting on UAP.
“We’re planning a long-term, cautious, sustainable plan to keep working on UAPs for decades to come,” Szydagis said, though noting that the team is also working to ensure that it does not add to “the clutter of more projects and more silos.”
“So the old UAPx is closing down, and it’s being reborn,” Szydagis told The Debrief. “We are preserving UAPx’s original mission.”
“Through an incredibly generous gift from Tony Gorman, Professors Knuth, Matthey Szydagis, and Cecilia Levy have secured a major endowment to launch UAlbany Project X (UAPx)—the direct academic continuation of everything we’ve built from scratch,” wrote Gary Voorhis, a U.S. Navy veteran and former CEO and co-founder of the original nonprofit UAPx.
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“They did it. They took our little rag-tag expedition team and turned it into a funded, university-backed research program with the potential to run for decades,” Voorhis wrote.
Knuth says the new UAlbany Project X will seek not only to collect more data on UAP but also to clarify the subject, how science can be applied to it, and to help dispel misconceptions about UAP.
In addition to the core University of Albany team, the researchers have announced they will receive input from experts, including physicist Eric W. Davis, who Szydagis said will work with the team on a volunteer basis as an adjunct researcher in an advisory position for the project.
“We are deeply honored to have him,” Dr. Szydagis told The Debrief.
“There has been a lot of excellent work done,” Knuth added, although noting that he hopes UAlbany Project X will be able to take scientific approaches to UAP research into new and exciting areas.
“I think the best thing to do is to learn from the mistakes of others, and to build on their successes,” Knuth said. “We’ve gotten diffraction gratings for high-quality cameras, and we plan to collect spectra.
And magnetic and electric fields are often omitted from study, and so we plan to accommodate that as well, along with an excellent network of multiple cameras.”
“We have plans to build arrays of cameras to watch the sky and have this portable,” Knuth told The Debrief.
“Basically, take your equipment and plant it somewhere for a couple of weeks, and collect data. That’s the way to do it.”
Thanks to Gorman’s endowment, the team also plans to ramp up publication of scientific papers on UAP.
“You should expect more papers from us, not just field expeditions,” Szydagis told The Debrief. “We’ve got all kinds of ideas on papers we want to publish on this topic broadly. And now we can start working on more of these things.”
“We no longer have to just work on this for free in our volunteer time,” Szydagis added, “which is not sustainable long-term.”
Fundamentally, Szydagis says that he, Levy, and Knuth will continue the mission that began during the original UAPx field expedition in 2021 and advance those efforts by collecting new data in the years ahead.
“UAPx is a phoenix being reborn,” Szydagis said. “It’s not dying, it’s not disappearing.”
“The mission will continue as a university effort.”
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The Secrets They Tried to Hide | Kerry Cassidy × Dani Henderson | Contact & Cover-Ups
December 2, 2025
In this explosive conversation, legendary journalist and whistleblower investigator Kerry Cassidy joins Dani Henderson to uncover the hidden truths behind ET contact, government cover-ups, black projects, and the classified agendas shaping our world.
From Project Camelot revelations to deep-insider testimony, alien interference, psychic intelligence, and suppressed technologies, this interview goes far beyond the mainstream narrative.
If you’re seeking truth, contact, disclosure, and the reality behind the “unseen forces” running global events, this is essential viewing.
Featuring:
🔹 Kerry Cassidy — Project Camelot
🔹 Dani Henderson — GSIC Host & Investigative Spiritual Leader
Topics covered:
ET Contact & Interdimensional Beings
Secret Space Program & Hidden Tech
Deep-State Cover-Ups
Whistleblower Testimonies
Classified Intelligence & Black Projects
Timeline Manipulation & Hybrid Programs
The Future of Human Disclosure
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rO-2al0k5k
https://x.com/GSIC_Galactic
https://x.com/camelotQKerry