Barrett said the Air Force is reviewing the NDAA conference agreement and discussing next steps SpaceNews.com

TriSept Corp. announced plans Dec. 10 to open an office at the United Kingdom’s Harwell Space Cluster as part of a comprehensive teaming agreement with the Satellite Applications Catapult.  SpaceNews.com

Private Chinese launch firm Landspace has raised $71 million in series C round funding for development of a new launcher. SpaceNews.com

NASA declared the long-delayed core stage for the first Space Launch System rocket complete Dec. 9, although the rocket’s launch is still more than a year away. SpaceNews.com

The federal government issued updated guidelines Dec. 9 to mitigate the creation of orbital debris, but many in the space safety community were disappointed with the limited scope of the changes. SpaceNews.com

Raymond: "Having a Space Force with a singular focus on the space domain will be hugely, hugely helpful to us." SpaceNews.com

The NDAA also establishes an Assistant Secretary of Defense for Space Policy as the senior civilian in the Office of the Secretary of Defense SpaceNews.com

The mission, dubbed ClearSpace-1, is slated to launch in 2025 to capture and deorbit a 100-kilogram Vespa payload adapter an Arianespace Vega left in orbit after deploying ESA’s Proba-V remote-sensing satellite. SpaceNews.com

Near Space Labs unveiled an application programming interface Dec. 9 offering access to high-resolution imagery captured by cameras on weather balloons. SpaceNews.com

Made In Space Europe and Luxembourg Space Agency won a European Space Agency contract to develop an inexpensive robotic arm for space applications. SpaceNews.com

Air Force Secretary Barbara Barrett: "It is time for us to move forward with the Space Force.” SpaceNews.com

Ron Lopez, president of Astroscale U.S.: 'The Air Force is talking about safety, congestion and how that affects resilience' SpaceNews.com

The Falcon 9 upper stage engine performed a 20.1 second burn after the six-hour coast SpaceNews.com

SpaceX will conduct an in-flight abort test of its Crew Dragon spacecraft in early January as the launch of Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner on an uncrewed test flight slips another day, NASA announced Dec. 6. SpaceNews.com

President and COO Gwynne Shotwell said the problem caught the company by surprise SpaceNews.com

The contracts are the latest awarded under a project called Defense Experimentation Using the Commercial Space Internet SpaceNews.com

Kacific said it recently secured $160 million from the Philippines-based Asian Development Bank and GuarantCo, a European- and Australian-government backed infrastructure investment organization, along with other financiers.  SpaceNews.com

Live pitch events are one of several avenues the Air Force is pursuing to attract U.S.-owned startups and commercial businesses that are breaking new ground in space technology. SpaceNews.com

Rocket Lab successfully launched several smallsats Dec. 6 on an Electron mission also designed to test technologies to make the rocket’s first stage reusable. SpaceNews.com

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine used a Dec. 5 speech on Capitol Hill to implore Congress to finish a fiscal year 2020 appropriations bill for NASA as soon as possible to give the agency funding to proceed on a lunar lander program. SpaceNews.com