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- NASA, JAXA XRISM Satellite X-rays Milky Way’s Sulfur NASA · 23 Jul 2025 An international team of scientists have provided an unprecedented tally of elemental sulfur spread between the stars using data from the Japan-led XRISM (X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission) spacecraft. Astronomers u...
- Sea-level monitoring satellite Sentinel-6B sets sail ESA · 23 Jul 2025 The next sea-level monitoring satellite, Copernicus Sentinel-6B, has begun its journey from Europe to the Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, where it is scheduled to launch in November. Carefully packed into a cl...
- Ignis Mission: Return to Earth ESA · 23 Jul 2025 On 15 July 2025, with the splashdown of the Dragon capsule off the coast of California, the Ignis mission ended after a 20-day space journey. ESA project astronaut Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski from Poland, during nearly 2...
- Watch: MetOp-SG-A1 and Sentinel-5 media briefing ESA · 23 Jul 2025 With launch slated for August, the first MetOp Second Generation satellite, MetOp-SG-A1, which also carries the Copernicus Sentinel-5 mission, is currently undergoing final preparations for liftoff aboard an Ariane 6 roc...
- Watch live: Vega-C to launch CO3D and MicroCarb ESA · 23 Jul 2025 From the ESA Blogs.
- Guetlein Says Golden Dome Architecture Will Be Ready in 60 Days SpacePolicyOnline.com · 23 Jul 2025 On his second day on the job, Gen. Michael Guetlein said today he has been given 60 days to come up with an objective architecture for President Trump’s Golden Dome
- Feeling the Heat: Perseverance Looks for Evidence of Contact Metamorphism NASA · 23 Jul 2025 Written by Melissa Rice, Professor of Planetary Science at Western Washington University Following a short break for the July 4th holiday, Perseverance drove westward to a site called “Westport,” where the clay-bearing “...
- Curiosity Blog, Sols 4607-4608: Deep Dip NASA · 23 Jul 2025 Written by Deborah Padgett, MSL OPGS Task Lead at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory Earth planning date: Monday, July 21, 2025 Curiosity continues our exploration of the fractured boxwork terrain on the slopes of Mount Sh...
- FAA caused Falcon 9 TRACERS launch scrub NASASpaceflight · 22 Jul 2025 The FAA (Federal Aviation Administration) has noted that it scrubbed a SpaceX launch at the…
- NASA eClips STEM Student Ambassadors Light Up CNU’s 2025 STEM Community Day NASA · 22 Jul 2025 More than 2,000 curious visitors from Newport News and the surrounding Hampton Roads region of Virginia flocked to Christopher Newport University (CNU) on May 31, 2025 for their annual STEM (Science, Technology, Engineer...
- NASA Challenge Wraps, Student Teams Complete Space Suit Challenges NASA · 22 Jul 2025 After months of work in the NASA Spacesuit User Interface Technologies for Students (SUITS) challenge, more than 100 students from 12 universities across the United States traveled to NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houst...
- Curiosity Blog, Sols 4604-4606: Taking a Deep Breath of Martian Air NASA · 22 Jul 2025 Written by Lauren Edgar, Planetary Geologist at USGS Astrogeology Science Center Earth planning date: Friday, July 18, 2025 Curiosity has started to investigate the main exposure of the boxwork structures! What was once...
- NASA Invites Media to Senegal Artemis Accords Signing Ceremony NASA · 22 Jul 2025 Senegal will sign the Artemis Accords during a ceremony at 2 p.m. EDT on Thursday, July 24, at NASA Headquarters in Washington. Brian Hughes, NASA chief of staff, will host Maram Kairé, director general of the Senegalese...
- Live coverage: SpaceX to launch NASA’s TRACERS satellites on rideshare Falcon 9 rocket launch from Vandenberg SFB Spaceflight Now · 22 Jul 2025 A total of seven spacecraft will be deployed beginning about 1.5 hours after liftoff. SpaceX is aiming to launch the mission from pad 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base at 11:13 a.m. PDT (2:13 p.m. EDT, 1813 UTC).
- NASA’s TRACERS ready to offer insight on Earth’s magnetic field NASASpaceflight · 22 Jul 2025 On Tuesday, July 22, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket will liftoff from Vandenberg Space Force Base…
- NASA’s X-59 Makes a Move NASA · 22 Jul 2025 NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft completed its first low-speed taxi test at U.S. Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale, California, on July 10, 2025. This marked the first time the one-of-a-kind experimental aircr...
- Building Vega-C flight VV27 ESA · 22 Jul 2025 From the ESA Blogs.
- Genesis SFL Secures €300,000 to Develop Gen Re-Entry Capsule European Spaceflight · 22 Jul 2025 Croatia-based Genesis Space Flight Laboratories has secured €300,000 in pre-seed funding to begin the development of GEN, a spacecraft designed to carry out frequent autonomous microgravity missions to and from low Earth...
- NASA Tests New Heat Source Fuel for Deep Space Exploration NASA · 22 Jul 2025 To explore the unknown in deep space, millions of miles away from Earth, it’s crucial for spacecraft to have ample power. NASA’s radioisotope power systems (RPS) are a viable option for these missions and have been used...
- Launch Roundup: Russian and European science missions to launch during busy week NASASpaceflight · 21 Jul 2025 Eight launches are scheduled for this week. Four of these are Falcon 9s, with SpaceX…
- NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 to Discuss Station Mission, Upcoming Return NASA · 21 Jul 2025 Media are invited to hear from NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 during a news conference beginning at 10:40 a.m. EDT, Friday, July 25, from the International Space Station. NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, JAXA (Japa...
- Live coverage: SpaceX to launch 2 O3b mPOWER satellites for SES on a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Spaceflight Now · 21 Jul 2025 The mission represents the fifth pair of Boeing-built O3b mPOWER satellites to launch into medium Earth orbit. SpaceX is targeting liftoff from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at 5:12 p.m. EDT (2112 UTC).
- NASA Goddard Center Director Makenzie Lystrup Set to Depart NASA · 21 Jul 2025 On Monday, NASA announced Dr. Makenzie Lystrup, director of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, is set to leave the agency on Friday, Aug. 1. As center director of Goddard, a role she has held sinc...
- NASA Shares How to Save Camera 370-Million-Miles Away Near Jupiter NASA · 21 Jul 2025 An experimental technique rescued a camera aboard the agency’s Juno spacecraft, offering lessons that will benefit other space systems that experience high radiation. The mission team of NASA’s Jupiter-orbiting Juno spac...
- GLOBE-Trotting Science Lands in Chesapeake with NASA eClips NASA · 21 Jul 2025 On June 16-17, 2025, 50 students at Camp Young in Chesapeake, Virginia traded their usual summer routines for microscopes. The NASA eClips team from the National Institute of Aerospace Center for Integrative STEM Educati...
- The Day Earth Smiled NASA · 21 Jul 2025 On July 19, 2013, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft had a rare opportunity to image Saturn and, far in the background, Earth. This image spans about 404,880 miles (651,591 kilometers) across. With the Sun’s powerful and potentia...
- 5 Things to Know About Powerful New U.S.-India Satellite, NISAR NASA · 21 Jul 2025 Data from NISAR will map changes to Earth’s surface, helping improve crop management, natural hazard monitoring, and tracking of sea ice and glaciers. A new U.S.-India satellite called NISAR (NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture...
- ESA Recertifies ExoMars Parachutes After Years in Storage European Spaceflight · 21 Jul 2025 The European Space Agency announced on 21 July that it had retested a pair of parachutes designed to enable its Rosalind Franklin rover to land safely on the surface of Mars. The ExoMars mission is currently scheduled fo...
- Bring NASA Science into Your Library! NASA · 21 Jul 2025 Calling all librarians! NASA sponsors dozens of research projects that need help from you and the people in your community. These projects invite everyone who’s interested to collaborate with scientists, investigating my...
- Catherine Staggs: Advancing Artemis Through Contracting Expertise NASA · 21 Jul 2025 A lifelong baseball fan, Catherine Staggs set out with her family to visit all 30 Major League Baseball stadiums across the United States. That love of the game eventually led them to settle in Houston about eight years...
- ExoMars parachutes ready for martian deployment ESA · 21 Jul 2025 The most complex parachute system to ever deploy on Mars has successfully slowed down an ExoMars mock-up landing platform for a safe touchdown on Earth.
- What’s Happening in Space Policy July 20-26, 2025 SpacePolicyOnline.com · 20 Jul 2025 Here is SpacePolicyOnline.com’s list of space policy events for the week of July 20-26, 2025 and any insight we can offer about them. The House and Senate are in session
- CHEOPS discovers exoplanet triggering explosive flares on host star NASASpaceflight · 20 Jul 2025 Using the European Space Agency’s Characterizing Exoplanets Satellite (CHEOPS) telescope, a team of astronomers has…
- Senate Appropriators Join House in Opposing Trump’s NASA Cuts SpacePolicyOnline.com · 20 Jul 2025 The Senate Appropriations Committee is joining its House counterpart in opposing President Trump’s proposal to deeply cut NASA’s budget and modify the Artemis program. From human spaceflight to science to
- ESA Finally Kicks Off Flying Engine Testbed Project Following ITT Reissue European Spaceflight · 19 Jul 2025 The European Space Agency has tapped UK-based Frazer-Nash to begin work on a Mach 5-capable flying testbed that will be used to test technology for future reusable spacecraft. In late 2021, ESA published the first invita...
- NASA Tests Scalable Satellite Tech to Launch Sensors Quicker NASA · 18 Jul 2025 NASA’s Athena Economical Payload Integration Cost mission, or Athena EPIC, is a test launch for an innovative, scalable space vehicle design to support future missions. The small satellite platform is engineered to share...
- Blue Origin, Relativity Space, Stoke Space, and more all completing major upgrades at Cape Canaveral NASASpaceflight · 18 Jul 2025 Numerous upgrades have been observed during NSF’s recent flyover, as efforts continue to bring upgraded…
- A huge fight looms over the NASA budget this fall Ars Technica · 18 Jul 2025 "NASA appears to be acting in accordance with a fringe, extremist ideology."
- Curiosity Blog, Sols 4602-4603: On Top of the Ridge NASA · 18 Jul 2025 Written by Alex Innanen, Atmospheric Scientist at York University Earth planning date: Wednesday, July 16, 2025 As we hoped, we successfully climbed the 11-meter ramp (about 36 feet) and have arrived at the top of the ri...
- Live coverage: SpaceX to launch 24 Starlink satellites into polar orbit on Falcon 9 rocket from California Spaceflight Now · 18 Jul 2025 The mission is part of SpaceX’s plan to bolster its internet network in Alaska and other polar regions. The company is targeting liftoff of its Falcon 9 rocket from pad 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base at 8:51 p.m....