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- Crew-11 Arrives at Kennedy Space Center Ahead of Launch NASASpaceflight · 27 Jul 2025 NASA’s Crew-11 mission is officially in the final stretch before liftoff, with all four astronauts…
- Live coverage: SpaceX to launch 24 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg SFB Spaceflight Now · 26 Jul 2025 The Starlink 17-2 mission will be SpaceX’s 92nd launch of 2025. It’s targeting liftoff of its Falcon 9 rocket from pad 4 East at 8:55 p.m. PDT (11:55 p.m. EDT / 0355 UTC).
- Crew-11 astronauts, cosmonaut arrive in Florida ahead of launch to the space station Spaceflight Now · 26 Jul 2025 The quartet is set to liftoff from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on Thursday, July 31. Their Dragon spacecraft, Endeavour, will fly for a record-setting sixth time.
- One Fifth of NASA’s Workforce Take Voluntary Departure Options SpacePolicyOnline.com · 26 Jul 2025 The options for NASA employees to voluntarily leave the agency to meet Trump Administration workforce reduction targets ended yesterday. NASA reports that just over 21 percent took the Deferred Resignation
- Vega-C VV27 ESA · 26 Jul 2025 From the ESA Blogs.
- Vega-C VV27 ESA · 26 Jul 2025 From the ESA Blogs.
- Space Traffic Report: Busy Week for Falcon 9: TRACERS, Starlink & O3b Satellites! NASASpaceflight · 25 Jul 2025 This week’s launches predominantly featured SpaceX’s Falcon 9, beginning with a Starlink mission from Vandenberg,…
- Live coverage: SpaceX to launch 28 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Spaceflight Now · 25 Jul 2025 The Starlink 10-26 mission will add another 28 satellites into the constellation of more than 8,000 on orbit. SpaceX is targeting liftoff from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at 4:34 a.m. EDT (0834 UTC).
- Celebrating 25 Years of Continuous Human Presence Aboard the International Space Station NASA · 25 Jul 2025 NASA and its partners have supported humans continuously living and working in space since November 2000. A truly global endeavor, the International Space Station has been visited by more than 280 people from 23 countrie...
- NASA Invites Media to SpaceX’s 33rd Resupply Launch to Space Station NASA · 25 Jul 2025 Media accreditation is open for the next launch to deliver NASA science investigations, supplies, and equipment to the International Space Station. This launch is the 33rd SpaceX commercial resupply services mission to t...
- NASA Rehearses How to Measure X-59’s Noise Levels NASA · 25 Jul 2025 In a stretch of California’s Mojave Desert, NASA conducted a full-scale “dress rehearsal” to prepare how it will measure the noise generated by the X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft. The team behind the successful...
- Cape Canaveral infrastructure and support sees upgrades as launch cadence rapidy increases NASASpaceflight · 25 Jul 2025 The world’s busiest spaceport continues to break yearly launch records as more commercial space launch…
- NASA Invites Virtual Guests to SpaceX Crew-11 Mission Launch NASA · 25 Jul 2025 NASA invites the public to participate as virtual guests in the launch of the agency’s SpaceX Crew-11 mission to the International Space Station. NASA astronauts Zena Cardman and Mike Fincke, JAXA (Japan Aerospace Explor...
- Week in images: 21-25 July 2025 ESA · 25 Jul 2025 Week in images: 21-25 July 2025
- Hubble Spies Swirling Spiral NASA · 25 Jul 2025 The swirling spiral galaxy in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image is NGC 3285B, which resides 137 million light-years away in the constellation Hydra (the Water Snake).
- Dassault CEO Pushing for VORTEX to be Adopted as an ESA Project European Spaceflight · 25 Jul 2025 Dassault Aviation Chairman and CEO Eric Trappier has revealed that the company expects its VORTEX spaceplane project to be adopted as a European Space Agency programme as early as next year. During the Paris Air Show in...
- Earth from Space: Kuwaiti waters ESA · 25 Jul 2025 From the ESA Blogs.
- Space pierogi bite ESA · 25 Jul 2025 From the ESA Blogs.
- Mars Sample Return Gets a Lifeline from House Appropriators SpacePolicyOnline.com · 25 Jul 2025 The House Appropriations Committee delayed markup of the FY2026 Commerce-Justice-Science bill that was scheduled for today, but released the report detailing how the committee wants NASA to spend the $24.8
- Roscosmos Ionosfera science mission to launch atop Soyuz from Vostochny Cosmodrome NASASpaceflight · 24 Jul 2025 A Soyuz 2.1b rocket is set to launch from Site 1S at Vostochny Cosmodrome in…
- NASA Welcomes Senegal as Newest Artemis Accords Signatory NASA · 24 Jul 2025 Senegal signed the Artemis Accords Thursday during a ceremony hosted by NASA at the agency’s headquarters in Washington, becoming the latest nation to commit to the responsible exploration of space for all humanity. “Fol...
- NASA Sets Coverage for Agency’s SpaceX Crew-11 Launch, Docking NASA · 24 Jul 2025 NASA will provide coverage of the upcoming prelaunch and launch activities for the agency’s SpaceX Crew-11 mission to the International Space Station. Liftoff is targeted for 12:09 p.m. EDT, Thursday, July 31, from Launc...
- Amazon says $139.5 million investment in Florida is key to ramping up launch cadence with Project Kuiper Spaceflight Now · 24 Jul 2025 The tech giant launched three batches of its satellites on two different rockets in less than three months. It said the next slate of Kuiper satellites is prepared to launch now, but didn’t state when that’s expected to...
- First Rocket Launch from Cape Canaveral NASA · 24 Jul 2025 The Bumper V-2 launches from Cape Canaveral in this July 24, 1950, photo. In the 75 years since this milestone, this facility has seen thousands of rockets take to the skies, destined for Earth orbit, the Moon, planets,...
- How NASA Is Testing AI to Make Earth-Observing Satellites Smarter NASA · 24 Jul 2025 A technology called Dynamic Targeting could enable spacecraft to decide, autonomously and within seconds, where to best make science observations from orbit. In a recent test, NASA showed how artificial intelligence-base...
- NASA’s Hubble, Chandra Spot Rare Type of Black Hole Eating a Star NASA · 24 Jul 2025 NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory have teamed up to identify a new possible example of a rare class of black holes. Called NGC 6099 HLX-1, this bright X-ray source seems to reside in a co...
- ESA Establishes Human and Robotic Exploration Biobank in Portugal European Spaceflight · 24 Jul 2025 The European Space Agency has selected the Gulbenkian Institute of Molecular Medicine in Lisbon, Portugal, to host its new Human and Robotic Exploration Biobank. In December 2024, ESA published a call for proposals for t...
- First MetOp Second Generation satellite fuelled ESA · 24 Jul 2025 The journey to launch is picking up pace for Europe’s MetOp Second Generation weather satellite – which hosts the Copernicus Sentinel-5 as part of its instrument package. Specialists at Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou have...
- NASA Launches Mission to Study Earth’s Magnetic Shield NASA · 23 Jul 2025 NASA’s newest mission, TRACERS, soon will begin studying how Earth’s magnetic shield protects our planet from the effects of space weather. Short for Tandem Reconnection and Cusp Electrodynamics Reconnaissance Satellites...
- NASA probes to study how the solar wind triggers potentially dangerous ‘space weather’ Spaceflight Now · 23 Jul 2025 SpaceX launched twin satellites for NASA Wednesday that will study how the electrically-charged solar wind interacts with Earth's magnetic field, creating constantly changing and occasionally dangerous "space weather" af...
- NASA Sets Launch Coverage for Earth-Tracking NISAR Satellite NASA · 23 Jul 2025 NASA will provide live coverage of launch activities for NISAR (NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar), which is set to lift off at 8:10 a.m. EDT (5:40 p.m. IST), Wednesday, July 30, from Satish Dhawan Space Centre on India...
- NASA Scientist Finds Predicted Companion Star to Betelgeuse NASA · 23 Jul 2025 A century-old hypothesis that Betelgeuse, the 10th brightest star in our night sky, is orbited by a very close companion star was proved true by a team of astrophysicists led by a scientist at NASA’s Ames Research Center...
- NASA Tests 5G-Based Aviation Network to Boost Air Taxi Connectivity NASA · 23 Jul 2025 NASA engineers are exploring how the technology used in existing cellphone networks could support the next generation of aviation. In April and May, researchers at NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland built two spec...
- NASA Tests Mixed Reality Pilot Simulation in Vertical Motion Simulator NASA · 23 Jul 2025 Commercial companies and government agencies are increasingly pursuing a more immersive and affordable alternative to conventional displays currently used in flight simulators. A NASA research project is working on ways...
- NASA Astronaut Jonny Kim, Axiom Mission 4 Commander Peggy Whitson Conduct Research in Space NASA · 23 Jul 2025 In this photo from June 28, 2025, Expedition 73 flight engineer Jonny Kim and former NASA astronaut and director of human spaceflight at Axiom Space Peggy Whitson work together inside the International Space Station’s De...
- Radio JOVE Volunteers Tune In to the Sun’s Low Notes NASA · 23 Jul 2025 As the Sun approaches the most active part of its eleven-year magnetic cycle this summer, NASA volunteers have been watching it closely. Now they’ve spotted a new trend in solar behavior that will have you reaching for y...
- NASA Seeks Industry Concepts on Moon, Mars Communications NASA · 23 Jul 2025 NASA is seeking proposals from U.S. companies about innovative Moon and Mars proximity relay communication and navigation capabilities as the agency aims to use private industry satellite communications services for emer...
- GRUVE Lab NASA · 23 Jul 2025 The GRUVE (Glenn Reconfigurable User-Interface and Virtual Reality Exploration) Lab is located within the GVIS Lab. It is home to the CAVE, which is predominantly used for mission scenarios and to tour virtual environmen...
- GVIS History NASA · 23 Jul 2025 As part of NASA Glenn’s Scientific Computing and Visualization Team, the GVIS Lab has a storied visual and technological history.
- USBR Seal Team Fix Challenge NASA · 23 Jul 2025 When a reservoir conduit cannot be closed, thousands of cubic feet of water can roar through uncontrolled, threatening public safety, irreplaceable reservoir storage, and power generation. Seal Team Fix invites engineers...