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- SpaceX successfully launches Super Heavy-Starship on critical test flight Spaceflight Now · 27 Aug 2025 While re-entry heating damaged a protective "skirt" around the the engine bay of the upper stage Starship, along with partially melting a control flap near its hinge, the vehicle remained under control throughout and mad...
- Live coverage: SpaceX to launch 28 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Spaceflight Now · 27 Aug 2025 The mission is poised to feature the 400th successful booster landing on a droneship. Liftoff from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station is scheduled for 7:10 a.m. EDT (1110 UTC).
- A Great Day for Starship SpacePolicyOnline.com · 27 Aug 2025 SpaceX got some much needed good news today with a successful Starship flight test. After three failures in a row, tonight’s suborbital Integrated Flight Test-10 seemed to be flawless with
- Inside NASA’s New Orion Mission Evaluation Room for Artemis II NASA · 26 Aug 2025 As NASA’s Orion spacecraft is carrying crew around the Moon on the Artemis II mission, a team of expert engineers in the Mission Control Center at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston will be meticulously monitoring th...
- Live coverage: SpaceX tries for third time to launch Starship Flight 10 from Starbase, Texas Spaceflight Now · 26 Aug 2025 SpaceX will make its latest attempt following scrubs due to ground systems issues and then poor weather. Liftoff from Pad A at Starbase is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. CDT (7:30 p.m. EDT / 2330 UTC).
- ESA Open Days 2025 ESA · 26 Aug 2025 ESA Open Days 2025
- Live coverage: SpaceX to launch Falcon 9 rocket on rideshare mission from Vandenberg SFB Spaceflight Now · 26 Aug 2025 The mission features OHB Italia’s NAOS satellite along with seven other secondary satellites. SpaceX is targeting liftoff from pad 4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base at 11:53 a.m. PDT (2:53 p.m. EDT / 1853 UTC).
- Launch Roundup: Starship, NS-35, and Falcon 9 launches planned NASASpaceflight · 26 Aug 2025 Eight launches are scheduled this week by SpaceX, Blue Origin, and CSNA. CSNA will kick…
- Reaching Out NASA · 26 Aug 2025 This image released on Aug. 20, 2025, combines new radio data from the Australia Telescope Compact Array with X-ray data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory. Chandra first released an image of this pulsar and its surro...
- Google’s AI model just nailed the forecast for the strongest Atlantic storm this year Ars Technica · 26 Aug 2025 If they improve further, AI weather models may very well become the gold standard.
- The Exploration Company’s Nyx Spacecraft Passes Initial ISS Safety Review European Spaceflight · 26 Aug 2025 The Exploration Company’s reusable Nyx Earth spacecraft has passed Phase 1 of the International Space Station Safety Review, confirming that the spacecraft’s preliminary design meets all hazard-control requirements for v...
- NASA Test Deploys Roman Space Telescope Solar Panels, ‘Visor’ NASA · 26 Aug 2025 On Aug. 7 and 8, NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team assessed the observatory’s solar panels and a visor-like sunshade called the deployable aperture cover — two components that will be stowed for launch and un...
- NASA Stennis Provides Ideal Setting for Range Operations NASA · 26 Aug 2025 Think of NASA’s Stennis Space Center, and one likely thinks of rocket propulsion testing. The site has a long history of testing to support the nation’s space efforts, including the current Artemis program to send astron...
- Four laser links over 300 million kilometres: ESA concludes daring optical communication campaign ESA · 26 Aug 2025 Over the summer, the European Space Agency ran an optical communication demonstration campaign using two observatories on Earth and NASA’s Psyche mission. All four optical links were successful.
- ESA wraps up 300-million-kilometre optical communication campaign ESA · 26 Aug 2025 Over the summer, the European Space Agency ran an optical communication demonstration campaign using two observatories on Earth and NASA’s Psyche mission. All four optical links were successful.
- Time moves fast when you are preparing for liftoff! ESA · 26 Aug 2025 This video shows a timelapse of the launch preparations for Europe’s first MetOp Second Generation, MetOp-SG-A1, weather satellite, which hosts the Copernicus Sentinel-5 mission. MetOp-SG-A1 was launched aboard an Ariane...
- Gaia proves our skies are filled with chains of starry gatherings ESA · 26 Aug 2025 In the past decade, the European Space Agency’s Gaia mission has revealed the nature, history, and behaviour of billions of stars. Our pioneering stargazer has reshaped our view of the skies around us like no other, reve...
- Curiosity Blog, Sols 4638-4640: Imaging Extravaganza Atop a Ridge NASA · 26 Aug 2025 Written by Conor Hayes, Graduate Student at York University Earth planning date: Friday, Aug. 22, 2025 Curiosity is continuing its winding path through the mysterious boxwork structures that have been a major focus of th...
- Weather Scrubs Second Starship IFT-10 Launch Attempt SpacePolicyOnline.com · 26 Aug 2025 SpaceX is still trying to get its 10th Starship Integrated Flight Test, IFT-10, off the ground. Yesterday’s attempt was canceled because of a ground-side liquid oxygen leak. Today’s was scrubbed
- ICEYE Secures €9.38M in Funding from Poland’s National Development Bank European Spaceflight · 25 Aug 2025 Earth observation data provider and satellite manufacturer ICEYE has secured over PLN 40 million (€9.38 million) in new funding from Vinci S.A., an investment vehicle of Bank Gospodarstwa Krajowego (BGK), Poland’s Nation...
- Vulcan Begins Operational Missions Space Scout · 25 Aug 2025 On August 12, 2025 at 8:56 p.m. EDT (0056 UTC), United Launch Alliance successfully launched its Vulcan Centaur VC4S vehicle from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station for the USSF-106 mission.
- With a new Soyuz rocket, Russia seeks to break its Ukrainian dependency Ars Technica · 25 Aug 2025 Now you Zenit, now you don't
- Live coverage: SpaceX preps for Starship Flight 10 following Sunday scrub Spaceflight Now · 25 Aug 2025 SpaceX Founder and Chief Engineer Elon Musk said on his social media site, X, that the scrub was caused by a “Ground side liquid oxygen leak (that) needs to be fixed.” The launch is scheduled for no earlier than Monday,...
- From NASA Citizen Scientist to Astronaut Training: An Interview with Benedetta Facini NASA · 25 Aug 2025 Titans Space Industries, a commercial space company, selected a new cohort of astronaut candidates this spring – and among them is NASA citizen scientist, Benedetta Facini. She has participated in not one, but many NASA...
- NASA’s X-59 at Sunrise NASA · 25 Aug 2025 NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft sits on the ramp at sunrise before ground tests at Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works facility in Palmdale, California, on July 18, 2025. Following completion of low-speed taxi t...
- Washington State Student Wins 2025 NASA Art Contest NASA · 25 Aug 2025 A Washington state high school student with a passion for art, space exploration, and a curiosity about the possibility of life on other planets earned the grand prize for the 2025 NASA Student Art Contest. Dahyun Jung’s...
- Astronomers Map Stellar ‘Polka Dots’ Using NASA’s TESS, Kepler NASA · 25 Aug 2025 Scientists have devised a new method for mapping the spottiness of distant stars by using observations from NASA missions of orbiting planets crossing their stars’ faces. The model builds on a technique researchers have...
- NASA Accepts Proposals for 2026 Student Launch Challenge NASA · 25 Aug 2025 NASA is kicking off the 2026 Student Launch challenge, looking for new student teams to design, build, and launch high-powered rockets with a scientific or engineering payload next April. The agency is seeking proposals...
- Harmonized Landsat and Sentinel-2: Collaboration Drives Innovation NASA · 25 Aug 2025 Introduction Landsat, a joint program of NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), has been an invaluable tool for monitoring changes in Earth’s land surface for over 50 years. Researchers use instruments on Landsat sa...
- Cargo ship docks with International Space Station Spaceflight Now · 25 Aug 2025 Launched Sunday from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station atop a Falcon 9 rocket, the cargo Dragon closed out a 28-hour rendezvous with an ahead-of-schedule docking at the lab's forward port at 7:05 a.m. EDT as the two spa...
- ESA data records help underpin climate change report ESA · 25 Aug 2025 According to the newly released 35th State of the Climate report, 2024 saw record highs in greenhouse gas concentrations, global land and ocean temperatures, sea levels, and ocean heat content. Glaciers also suffered the...
- Lindy Garay: Supporting Space Station Safety and Success NASA · 25 Aug 2025 Lindy Garay always knew she wanted to develop software. She did not anticipate that her work would contribute to human spaceflight. The electrical and software engineering degree Garay earned from the University of Texas...
- Juice team resolves anomaly on approach to Venus ESA · 25 Aug 2025 The European Space Agency’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) is on track for its gravity-assist flyby at Venus on 31 August, following the successful resolution of a spacecraft communication anomaly that temporarily se...
- Live Coverage: SpaceX gets ready for crucial 10th test flight of Starship Spaceflight Now · 24 Aug 2025 Watch live as a Super Heavy booster and Starship launch on a crucial test flight for SpaceX's fully reusable rocket, following three consecutive failures of the Starship upper stage in-flight and an explosion on the test...
- What’s Happening in Space Policy August 24-30, 2025 SpacePolicyOnline.com · 24 Aug 2025 Here is SpacePolicyOnline.com’s list of space policy events for the week of August 24-30, 2025 and any insight we can offer about them. The House and Senate are in recess
- NASA, SpaceX launch Dragon to the ISS on extended cargo, station boosting mission Spaceflight Now · 24 Aug 2025 This will be the 50th Dragon vehicle to visit the International Space Station, including the Dragon 1 vehicles that were berthed to the orbiting lab. Docking with the Harmony module is anticipated Monday, Aug. 25, at 7:3...
- NASA Science, Cargo Launch on 33rd SpaceX Resupply Mission to Station NASA · 24 Aug 2025 Following a successful launch of NASA’s SpaceX 33rd commercial resupply mission, new scientific experiments and cargo for the agency are bound for the International Space Station. The SpaceX Dragon spacecraft, carrying m...
- Starship prepares to launch Flight 10 in penultimate Block 2 test NASASpaceflight · 23 Aug 2025 SpaceX has not experienced much success with the Block 2 version of Starship since its…
- Live coverage: NASA, SpaceX to launch Falcon 9 rocket, Dragon spacecraft on CRS-33 from Cape Canaveral Spaceflight Now · 23 Aug 2025 This will be the first Cargo Dragon flight featuring a modified trunk that allows it to perform multiple orbital boosts of the International Space Station. SpaceX is targeting liftoff from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Space...
- NASA Tests Tools to Assess Drone Safety Over Cities NASA · 22 Aug 2025 A future with advanced air mobility aircraft populating the skies will require the U.S. to implement enhanced preflight planning that can mitigate potential risks well before takeoff – and NASA is working to develop the...