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- Halfway through 2025, SpaceX breaks Falcon records and struggles with Starship NASASpaceflight · 9 Jul 2025 In the second quarter of 2025, SpaceX continued its record launch cadence with the Falcon…
- NASA Aircraft, Sensor Technology, Aid in Texas Flood Recovery Efforts NASA · 9 Jul 2025 In response to recent flooding near Kerrville, Texas, NASA deployed two aircraft to assist state and local authorities in ongoing recovery operations. The aircraft are part of the response from NASA’s Disasters Response...
- Smarter Searching: NASA AI Makes Science Data Easier to Find NASA · 9 Jul 2025 Imagine shopping for a new pair of running shoes online. If each seller described them differently—one calling them “sneakers,” another “trainers,” and someone else “footwear for exercise”—you’d quickly feel lost in a se...
- Anatomy of a Space Shuttle NASA · 9 Jul 2025 This 2001 illustration labels important parts of a space shuttle orbiter. The orbiter was the heart and brains of the space shuttle and served as the crew transport vehicle that carried astronauts to and from space. The...
- “Hubble at 35 Years” Symposium Explores Insights from Hubble’s Past NASA · 9 Jul 2025 As Hubble marks three and a half decades of scientific breakthroughs and technical resilience, the “Hubble at 35 Years” symposium offers a platform to reflect on the mission’s historical, operational, and scientific lega...
- NASA, International Astronauts Answer Questions from Florida Students NASA · 9 Jul 2025 Students in Big Pine Key, Florida, will have the chance to have NASA astronauts aboard the International Space Station answer their prerecorded questions. At 10:05 a.m. EDT on Monday, July 14, NASA astronaut Nicole Ayers...
- Northwood Space successfully tests second-generation phased array antenna Ars Technica · 9 Jul 2025 "This system will be the first building block in our network."
- I Am Artemis: Joe Pavicic NASA · 9 Jul 2025 Listen to this audio excerpt from Joe Pavicic, Artemis operations project engineer Joe Pavicic will never forget when he told the Artemis launch director teams were NO-GO for launch. Before Artemis I lifted off from NASA...
- Polar Tourists Give Positive Reviews to NASA Citizen Science in Antarctica NASA · 9 Jul 2025 Citizen science projects result in an overwhelmingly positive impact on the polar tourism experience. That’s according to a new paper analyzing participant experiences in the first two years of FjordPhyto, a NASA Citizen...
- ESA Validates Space Rider Landing Accuracy with Drop Test Campaign European Spaceflight · 9 Jul 2025 The European Space Agency has confirmed the successful completion of a series of drop tests, validating the landing accuracy of its reusable Space Rider spacecraft. Space Rider is a reusable spacecraft initiative aimed a...
- Closing the loop: new Space Rider drop test ESA · 9 Jul 2025 From the ESA Blogs.
- Aerospace Industry Urges Congress Not to Kill TraCSS SpacePolicyOnline.com · 8 Jul 2025 A coalition of space industry associations representing hundreds of companies is urging Congress to reject Trump Administration plans to kill the nascent Traffic Coordination System for Space (TraCSS). Developed through
- Scientists Rally Support for NASA as Appropriators Begin Markups SpacePolicyOnline.com · 8 Jul 2025 As Congress begins marking up the FY2026 appropriations bill for NASA, leaders of the space and earth science community are urging Congress to reject deep cuts proposed by the Trump
- Continuing the Quest for Clays NASA · 8 Jul 2025 Written by Eleanor Moreland, Ph.D. Student Collaborator at Rice University For the past month and a half, Perseverance has been exploring the Krokodillen plateau in search of clay-bearing rocks. An earlier blog discussed...
- Helio Highlights: May 2025 NASA · 8 Jul 2025 The Sun is 93 million miles away, but its presence is felt strongly even at this distance. One of the more beautiful effects of this presence are the auroras which light up the sky in the Northern and Southern polar regi...
- ULA set to ramp up Vulcan launches and national security missions with USSF-106 NASASpaceflight · 8 Jul 2025 United Launch Alliance (ULA) is starting launch processing for its long-awaited national security launch debut…
- Stellar Duo NASA · 8 Jul 2025 NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured a bright variable star, V 372 Orionis, and its companion in this festive image in this image released on Jan. 27, 2023. The pair lie in the Orion Nebula, a colossal region of star f...
- Tuesday Telescope: A stellar duo stars in a nearby galaxy Ars Technica · 8 Jul 2025 Side-by-side views bring new insight into these intriguing clusters.
- Commercial space industry groups ask Congress to fully fund TraCSS SpaceNews · 8 Jul 2025 An industry coalition is asking congressional appropriators to reject the administration’s proposal to terminate the Commerce Department’s space traffic coordination system.
- Muon Space names new leadership to advance role in government market SpaceNews · 8 Jul 2025 Former Space Development Agency official Paula Trimble has joined the company as vice president of government affairs and strategy
- From ESA lab to a historic drone race win ESA · 8 Jul 2025 An autonomous drone has beaten human drone racing champions in an international competition for the first time. A team of scientists from Delft University of Technology has taken first place at the A2RL Drone Championshi...
- ESA selects five companies for next phase of launcher competition SpaceNews · 8 Jul 2025 The European Space Agency has selected five launch vehicle startups to proceed to the next phase of a competition where they could receive contracts for satellite launches and upgraded vehicles.
- Live coverage: SpaceX to launch 28 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Spaceflight Now · 8 Jul 2025 The Starlink 10-28 mission will deliver 28 broadband internet satellites into low Earth orbit. SpaceX is targeting liftoff of its Falcon 9 rocket from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at 4:21 a.m. EDT (0821 U...
- Curiosity Blog, Sols 4589 – 4592: Setting up to explore Volcán Peña Blanca NASA · 7 Jul 2025 Written by Abigail Fraeman, Deputy Project Scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory Earth planning date: Thursday, July 3, 2025 The team was delighted this morning to learn that Wednesday’s drive had completed flawl...
- Curiosity Blog, Sol 4588: Ridges and troughs NASA · 7 Jul 2025 Written by Lucy Thompson, APXS Collaborator and Senior Research Scientist at the University of New Brunswick, CanadaEarth planning date: Wednesday, July 2, 2025As we traverse the boxwork terrain, we are encountering a se...
- Launch Roundup: Falcon 9 set to fly 500th orbital mission during quiet week NASASpaceflight · 7 Jul 2025 In a quiet week for rocket launches worldwide, SpaceX is set to launch the 500th…
- Working in Space NASA · 7 Jul 2025 In this May 23, 2025, image, NASA astronaut Jonny Kim works inside the SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft completing cargo operations before it undocked from the International Space Station’s Harmony module several hours lat...
- Cooperation and consolidation: reshaping Europe’s space industry to last SpaceNews · 7 Jul 2025 Despite its inclusion in the official French name — le Salon International de l’Aéronautique et de l’Espace — the Paris Air Show traditionally has not highlighted space in its panels or exhibitions. The focus of the even...
- Chinese scientists propose 2033 Neptune orbiter mission SpaceNews · 7 Jul 2025 Scientists are proposing China’s first ice giant mission, aiming to launch a radioisotope-powered spacecraft to orbit Neptune and study its enigmatic moon Triton.
- NASA’s Hubble and Webb Telescopes Reveal Two Faces of a Star Cluster Duo NASA · 7 Jul 2025 A riotous expanse of gas, dust, and stars stake out the dazzling territory of a duo of star clusters in this combined image from NASA’s Hubble and Webb space telescopes. Open clusters NGC 460 and NGC 456 reside in the Sm...
- ESA Shortlists Five Companies for European Launcher Challenge European Spaceflight · 7 Jul 2025 The European Space Agency has selected Isar Aerospace, Rocket Factory Augsburg, PLD Space, MaiaSpace, and Orbex to proceed to the next phase of its European Launcher Challenge. ESA unveiled the European Launcher Challeng...
- European Launcher Challenge: preselected challengers unveiled ESA · 7 Jul 2025 From the ESA Blogs.
- Trump says it would have been “inappropriate” for Isaacman to lead NASA SpaceNews · 7 Jul 2025 President Donald Trump says it would have been “inappropriate” for Jared Isaacman to lead NASA given his ties to Elon Musk and history of political donations.
- Aaisha Ali: From Marine Biology to the Artemis Control Room NASA · 7 Jul 2025 As humanity prepares to return to the lunar surface, Aaisha Ali is behind the scenes ensuring mission readiness for astronauts set to orbit the Moon during Artemis II. Ali is the Artemis ground control flight lead at NAS...
- What’s Happening in Space Policy July 6-12, 2025 SpacePolicyOnline.com · 6 Jul 2025 Here is SpacePolicyOnline.com’s list of space policy events for the week of July 6-12, 2025 and any insight we can offer about them. The House and Senate are in session
- Himawari meteorological satellites measure temperature changes on Venus NASASpaceflight · 6 Jul 2025 On Oct. 7, 2014, and Nov. 2, 2016, the Japanese Himawari 8 and Himawari 9…
- U.S. Air Force halts plan for rocket landing pads on remote Pacific atoll amid environmental backlash SpaceNews · 6 Jul 2025 The pads were intended to support the Air Force’s Rocket Cargo program
- Space Force scraps satellite procurement, shifts to more flexible strategy SpaceNews · 6 Jul 2025 The canceled program, known as Protected Tactical Satellite Communication-Resilient (PTS-R), was launched in 2020 to build anti-jam communications satellites
- China accelerates toward lunar goals as reusability programs gain momentum NASASpaceflight · 5 Jul 2025 China has conducted two spacewalks from its Tiangong space station in as many months and…
- Republican-backed reconciliation bill passes, includes funding for ISS, Artemis programs, Space Shuttle relocation Spaceflight Now · 5 Jul 2025 This bill, H.R. 1, is separate from the Fiscal Year 2026 appropriations bills. Those include the FY26 Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies (CJS) bill, which will be marked up by the House Appropriations Commi...