Industry News
Headlines from space publications, linked back to the original articles
Industry / News
- Stay Cool: NASA Tests Innovative Technique for Super Cold Fuel Storage NASA · 18 Jul 2025 In the vacuum of space, where temperatures can plunge to minus 455 degrees Fahrenheit, it might seem like keeping things cold would be easy. But the reality is more complex for preserving ultra-cold fluid propellants – o...
- NASA-Derived Textiles are Touring France by Bike NASA · 18 Jul 2025 During the Tour de France, athletes have to maintain a constant speed while bike riding for dozens of miles through cold rains and summer heat. These cyclists need gear that adapts to the different environments they enco...
- BREAKING NEWS: Possible Starship Salvage Operation Underway off Coast of Mexico NASASpaceflight · 18 Jul 2025 July 18, 2025: 1:29 PM Eastern NASASpaceflight.com is currently tracking a developing situation involving the…
- Hubble Snaps Galaxy Cluster’s Portrait NASA · 18 Jul 2025 A massive, spacetime-warping cluster of galaxies is the setting of today’s NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image. The galaxy cluster in question is Abell 209, located 2.8 billion light-years away in the constellation Cet...
- Federal Chancellor of Austria welcomed to ESA Headquarters ESA · 18 Jul 2025 On Friday 18 July, His Excellency Christian Stocker, Federal Chancellor of Austria, visited ESA Headquarters in Paris receiving a tour of the site from Director General Josef Aschbacher.
- European firm has an ambitious plan to dock with the space station in 2028 Ars Technica · 18 Jul 2025 "One year ago, this was out of the discussion."
- What You Need to Know About NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 Mission NASA · 18 Jul 2025 Four crew members are preparing to launch to the International Space Station as part of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 mission to perform research, technology demonstrations, and maintenance activities aboard the orbiting laborat...
- Vision Changes on Space Station NASA · 18 Jul 2025 Science in Space July 2025 When astronauts began spending six months and more aboard the International Space Station, they started to notice changes in their vision. For example, many found that, as their mission progres...
- Week in images: 14-18 July 2025 ESA · 18 Jul 2025 Week in images: 14-18 July 2025
- SpaceForest Expands Launch Plans with Portuguese Island Agreement European Spaceflight · 18 Jul 2025 Poland-based rocket builder SpaceForest has signed an agreement with the Atlantic Spaceport Consortium to launch its Perun rocket from the Portuguese island of Santa Maria in 2026. SpaceForest began developing the one-st...
- Rocket Report: Avio celebrates independence; PLD outlines grand ambitions Ars Technica · 18 Jul 2025 "Europe is seizing the opportunity to lead."
- Hubble Digs Up Galactic Time Capsule NASA · 18 Jul 2025 This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the field of stars that is NGC 1786. This globular cluster is located in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a small satellite galaxy of the Milky Way Galaxy that is appr...
- New Apollo Earthrise view shows Juice’s RIME working well ESA · 18 Jul 2025 When the European Space Agency’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) flew past our Moon in August 2024, its Radar for Icy Moon Exploration (RIME) instrument listened to radio wave echoes to reveal the height of the lunar...
- Earth from Space: Circles in the desert ESA · 18 Jul 2025 From the ESA Blogs.
- Back to Europe ESA · 18 Jul 2025 From the ESA Blogs.
- Senate Appropriators Retain Funding for NOAA’s TraCSS Space Traffic System SpacePolicyOnline.com · 18 Jul 2025 The Senate Appropriations Committee completed consideration of the FY2026 Commerce-Justice-Science bill that funds NOAA and NASA today. The committee rejected the Trump Administration’s proposal to terminate NOAA’s Traff...
- Boeing updates EUS progress via thrust structure render NASASpaceflight · 18 Jul 2025 Boeing is expected to spend 2.8 billion dollars on NASA’s brand-new Exploration Upper Stage (EUS),…
- Final ML-2 tower module added as Artemis and SLS Block 1B receive a funding reprieve NASASpaceflight · 17 Jul 2025 Mobile Launcher 2 (ML-2), the launch tower and platform to be used by the Block…
- The Exploration Company Tests Thruster for Nyx Moon Lunar Lander European Spaceflight · 17 Jul 2025 Space transportation startup The Exploration Company has announced the successful first test firing of its Breeze thruster, which will be used aboard its Nyx Moon lunar lander. Founded in 2021, The Exploration Company is...
- NASA, Oxford Discover Warmer Uranus Than Once Thought NASA · 17 Jul 2025 KEY POINTS For millennia, astronomers thought Uranus was no more than a distant star. It wasn’t until the late 18th century that Uranus was universally accepted as a planet. To this day, the ringed, blue world subverts s...
- NASA’s X-59 Quiet Supersonic Aircraft Begins Taxi Tests NASA · 17 Jul 2025 NASA/Jacob Shaw NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft has officially begun taxi tests, marking the first time this one-of-a-kind experimental aircraft has moved under its own power. NASA test pilot Nils Larson a...
- NASA to Launch SNIFS, Sun’s Next Trailblazing Spectator NASA · 17 Jul 2025 July will see the launch of the groundbreaking Solar EruptioN Integral Field Spectrograph mission, or SNIFS. Delivered to space via a Black Brant IX sounding rocket, SNIFS will explore the energy and dynamics of the chro...
- Space Station Crew Celebrates Milestone NASA · 17 Jul 2025 In this June 13, 2025, photo, NASA astronaut Anne McClain shows off a hamburger-shaped cake to celebrate 200 cumulative days in space for JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Takuya Onishi since his first...
- Registration Opens for 2025 NASA International Space Apps Challenge NASA · 17 Jul 2025 NASA invites innovators of all ages to register for the NASA Space Apps Challenge, held on Oct. 4-5. The 2025 theme is Learn, Launch, Lead, and participants will work alongside a vibrant community of scientists, technolo...
- Registration Opens for 2025 NASA International Space Apps Challenge NASA · 17 Jul 2025 Lee esta historia en español aquí NASA invites innovators of all ages to register for the NASA Space Apps Challenge, held on Oct. 4-5. The 2025 theme is Learn, Launch, Lead, and participants will work alongside a vibrant...
- Four-legged robot’s first encounter with microgravity ESA · 17 Jul 2025 For the exploration of planetary bodies with low gravity, such as the Moon or Mars, legged robots have an advantage over traditional rovers. One such robot recently jumped from wall to wall in conditions simulating parti...
- NASA Program Builds Bridge From Military to Civilian Careers for Johnson Team Members NASA · 17 Jul 2025 Of all the possible entry points to NASA, the agency’s SkillBridge Program has been instrumental in helping servicemembers transition from the military and into civilian careers. Offered in partnership with the Departmen...
- Vigil: ESA’s space weather reporter in deep space ESA · 17 Jul 2025 Space weather ‘reporter’ Vigil will be the world’s first space weather mission to be permanently positioned at Lagrange point 5, a unique vantage point that allows us to see solar activity days before it reaches Earth. E...
- NASA Invites Media to Marshall’s 65th Anniversary Celebration July 19 NASA · 16 Jul 2025 NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center will host astronauts for a media opportunity as the center celebrates its 65th anniversary during a free, community event on Saturday, July 19, from noon to 5 p.m. CDT at The Orion Amp...
- Summer Triangle Corner: Vega NASA · 16 Jul 2025 If you live in the Northern Hemisphere and look up during July evenings, you’ll see the brilliant star Vega shining overhead. Did you know that Vega is one of the most studied stars in our skies? As one of the brightest...
- Starship at Cape Canaveral Making Progress as SpaceX Tries to Push the Program Forward NASASpaceflight · 16 Jul 2025 While SpaceX continues to attempt to launch flight tests at Starbase, crews are working diligently…
- NASA to Preview Advanced US-India Radar Mission Ahead of Launch NASA · 16 Jul 2025 NASA will host a news conference at 12 p.m. EDT Monday, July 21, to discuss the upcoming NISAR (NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar) mission. The Earth-observing satellite, a first-of-its-kind collaboration between NASA a...
- NASA’s Chandra Finds Baby Exoplanet is Shrinking NASA · 16 Jul 2025 A star is unleashing a barrage of X-rays that is causing a closely-orbiting, young planet to wither away an astonishing rate, according to a new study using data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and described in our...
- NASA Software Catalog Puts Agency Solutions at Innovators’ Fingertips NASA · 16 Jul 2025 NASA’s latest open Software Catalog, released Wednesday, offers more than 1,200 downloadable codes developed by agency engineers that could enable faster solutions to energize the space economy and stimulate American ing...
- Aurora Australis NASA · 16 Jul 2025 The aurora australis arcs above a partly cloudy Indian Ocean in this photograph from the International Space Station as it orbited 269 miles above in between Australia and Antarctica on June 12, 2025. Astronauts aboard t...
- NASA’s TRACERS Studies Explosive Process in Earth’s Magnetic Shield NASA · 16 Jul 2025 High above us, particles from the Sun hurtle toward Earth, colliding with the upper atmosphere and creating powerful explosions in a murky process called magnetic reconnection. A single magnetic reconnection event can re...
- NASA Sees Key Progress on Starlab Commercial Space Station NASA · 16 Jul 2025 As NASA continues its transition toward a commercial low Earth orbit marketplace, an agency-supported commercial space station, Starlab, recently completed five development and design milestones. Starlab’s planned design...
- ESA Backs EuroSpaceport’s North Sea Launch Site European Spaceflight · 16 Jul 2025 EuroSpaceport has secured European Space Agency support for its North Sea launch site. The announcement also revealed that Poland’s SpaceForest has signed on to launch its suborbital Perun rocket from the facility in the...
- NASA Citizen Science and Your Career: Stories of Exoplanet Watch Volunteers NASA · 16 Jul 2025 Doing NASA Science brings many rewards. But can taking part in NASA citizen science help your career? To find out, we asked participants in NASA’s Exoplanet Watch project about their experiences. In this project, amateur...
- Ejection Mechanism Design for the SPEED Test Architecture NASA · 16 Jul 2025 The The Stratospheric Projectile Entry Experiment on Dynamics (SPEED), a two-stage stratospheric drop test architecture, is currently under development to bridge the state-of-the-art gap that many NASA flagship missions...