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- Mission to Collect Meteoric Smoke Particles Launched from Norway European Spaceflight · 5 Jul 2025 A sounding rocket was successfully launched from an Andøya Space facility in Norway on 5 July as part of a research mission to collect meteoric smoke particles from the upper atmosphere. Led by a team from the Arctic Uni...
- Orbex CEO Says Proxima Rocket Will Let It Compete on Price With SpaceX European Spaceflight · 4 Jul 2025 While speaking to the UK Engagement with Space Committee on 23 June, Orbex CEO Phil Chambers said the company would be able to compete with SpaceX on price once it introduces its medium-lift Proxima rocket. The UK Engage...
- Week in images: 30 June - 4 July 2025 ESA · 4 Jul 2025 Week in images: 30 June - 4 July 2025
- Rocket Report: Japan’s workhorse booster takes a bow; you can invest in SpaceX now Ars Technica · 4 Jul 2025 "We will be able to industrialize Zephyr production up to 50 units per year."
- Boeing lands $2.8 billion deal to build next-gen nuclear communications satellites SpaceNews · 4 Jul 2025 The ESS satellites are central to U.S. nuclear command, control and communications
- Earth from Space: Zanzibar, Tanzania ESA · 4 Jul 2025 From the ESA Blogs.
- Antarctic waters getting saltier as sea ice wanes ESA · 4 Jul 2025 Using data from ESA’s SMOS satellite, scientists have revealed a surprising shift in the Southern Ocean – surface waters around Antarctica are growing saltier, even as sea ice is diminishing rapidly. This finding defies...
- Reconciliation Bill Passes Congress with Billions for U.S. Space Force SpacePolicyOnline.com · 4 Jul 2025 The House passed the reconciliation bill today, the final step before sending it to President Trump’s desk in time to meet their self-imposed deadline of July 4. Officially named the
- Congress passes budget reconciliation bill with $10 billion for NASA SpaceNews · 4 Jul 2025 Congress approved a budget reconciliation bill that includes nearly $10 billion for NASA human spaceflight programs and could also lead to the transfer of a space shuttle to Houston.
- Trump Megabill Includes Billions for Artemis, ISS, Moving A Space Shuttle to Texas And More SpacePolicyOnline.com · 3 Jul 2025 The House passed President Trump’s “One Big, Beautiful Bill” this afternoon. Trump is expected to sign it tomorrow, July 4, a self-imposed deadline Republicans were determined to meet. Dubbed the
- China launches first classified Shiyan-28B experimental satellite SpaceNews · 3 Jul 2025 China sent a new satellite into orbit for its experimental Shiyan series Thursday with a launch from the country’s southwest.
- NASA Remembers Former Johnson Director Jefferson Howell NASA · 3 Jul 2025 July 3, 2025 Jefferson Davis Howell, Jr., former director of NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, died July 2, in Bee Cave, Texas. He was 85 years old. Howell was a champion of the construction of the International Sp...
- NASA Mission Monitoring Air Quality from Space Extended NASA · 3 Jul 2025 Since launching in 2023, NASA’s Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution mission, or TEMPO, has been measuring the quality of the air we breathe from 22,000 miles above the ground. June 19 marked the successful co...
- Hubble Observations Give “Missing” Globular Cluster Time to Shine NASA · 3 Jul 2025 A previously unexplored globular cluster glitters with multicolored stars in this NASA Hubble Space Telescope image. Globular clusters like this one, called ESO 591-12 or Palomar 8, are spherical collections of tens of t...
- NASA Advances Pressure Sensitive Paint Research Capability NASA · 3 Jul 2025 Many of us grew up using paint-by-number sets to create beautiful color pictures. For years now, NASA engineers studying aircraft and rocket designs in wind tunnels have flipped that childhood pastime, using computers to...
- Old Glory on the Red Planet NASA · 3 Jul 2025 The United States flag adorns an aluminum plate mounted at the base of the mast, or “head,” of NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover. This image of the plate was taken on June 28, 2025 (the 1,548th day, or sol, of the mission),...
- Progress MS-31 to launch as ISS hosts private crew, prepares for another handover NASASpaceflight · 3 Jul 2025 The International Space Station is in the midst of a transitional period, with the crew…
- Discovery Alert: Scientists Spot a Planetary Carousel NASA · 3 Jul 2025 The Planets KOI-134 b and KOI-134 c The Discovery A new investigation into old Kepler data has revealed that a planetary system once thought to house zero planets actually has two planets which orbit their star in a uniq...
- The business case for the moon SpaceNews · 3 Jul 2025 In this week’s episode of Space Minds we bring you a special panel discussion on the future of commercial lunar exploration which was recorded live during the build-up to a historic moon landing.
- ESA tracks rare interstellar comet ESA · 3 Jul 2025 Astronomers have confirmed the discovery of a rare celestial visitor: a comet from beyond our Solar System.
- ESA prepares downselect for European Launcher Challenge SpaceNews · 3 Jul 2025 The European Space Agency will soon select the finalists for a competition intended to support the development of new launch vehicles by European companies.
- Space Cargo Unlimited Secures €12.5M for BentoBox In-Orbit Platform European Spaceflight · 3 Jul 2025 Luxembourg-based Space Cargo Unlimited has secured €12.5 million in funding from the European Innovation Council Accelerator to advance the development of its BentoBox in-orbit testing and manufacturing platform. In Octo...
- ULA begins stacking its 1st Vulcan rocket supporting a national security mission Spaceflight Now · 3 Jul 2025 This is the second time the rocket is being prepared for launch following a months long delay in certifying the launch vehicle. ULA hasn’t announced a specific launch date, but it’s expected sometime this summer.
- Students take 3D-printed rovers for a spin ESA · 3 Jul 2025 From the ESA Blogs.
- Open Cosmos buys Portuguese startup to bolster space-based IoT capabilities SpaceNews · 3 Jul 2025 British smallsat maker Open Cosmos has acquired Connected, a Portuguese startup developing 5G narrowband connectivity payloads for satellites.
- Latitude announces new factory and contracts for Zephyr small launcher SpaceNews · 2 Jul 2025 French launch vehicle startup Latitude has signed a deal to expand into a larger factory as the company works towards a first launch as soon as next year.
- NASA Sets Briefings for SpaceX Crew-11 Mission to Space Station NASA · 2 Jul 2025 NASA and its partners will discuss the upcoming crew rotation to the International Space Station during a pair of news conferences on Thursday, July 10, from the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. First is an over...
- NASA Awards Simulation and Advanced Software Services II Contract NASA · 2 Jul 2025 NASA has awarded a contract to MacLean Engineering & Applied Technologies, LLC of Houston to provide simulation and advanced software services to the agency. The Simulation and Advanced Software Services II (SASS II) con...
- National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency announces new contract awards under ‘Luno’ program SpaceNews · 2 Jul 2025 WASHINGTON — The U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) announced July 2 it has awarded over $70 million in contracts to commercial satellite imagery and analytics firms as part of its Luno program, a new ini...
- How NASA’s SPHEREx Mission Will Share Its All-Sky Map With the World NASA · 2 Jul 2025 NASA’s newest astrophysics space telescope launched in March on a mission to create an all-sky map of the universe. Now settled into low-Earth orbit, SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of...
- What’s Up: July 2025 Skywatching Tips from NASA NASA · 2 Jul 2025 A.M./P.M. Planet Watching, Plus the Eagle Constellation Mars shines in the evening, and is joined briefly by Mercury. Jupiter joins Venus as the month goes on. And all month, look for Aquila the eagle. Skywatching Highli...
- DARPA says decreasing launch costs, new analysis led it to cancel DRACO nuclear propulsion project SpaceNews · 2 Jul 2025 A DARPA official said the agency canceled a space nuclear propulsion project it was jointly developing with NASA in part because the effort was overtaken by lower launch costs.
- To the Spacemobile! NASA · 2 Jul 2025 In this Nov. 1, 1964, image, three members of NASA’s Lewis Research Center’s (now NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland) Educational Services Office pose with one of the center’s Spacemobile space science demonstrati...
- Discovery Alert: Flaring Star, Toasted Planet NASA · 2 Jul 2025 The Discovery A giant planet some 400 light-years away, HIP 67522 b, orbits its parent star so tightly that it appears to cause frequent flares from the star’s surface, heating and inflating the planet’s atmosphere. Key...
- Near-Earth Asteroids as of July 2025 NASA · 2 Jul 2025 Each month, NASA’s Planetary Defense Coordination Office releases a monthly update featuring the most recent figures on NASA’s planetary defense efforts, near-Earth object close approaches, and other timely facts about c...
- Clingy planets can trigger own doom, suspect Cheops and TESS ESA · 2 Jul 2025 Astronomers using the European Space Agency’s Cheops mission have caught an exoplanet that seems to be triggering flares of radiation from the star it orbits. These tremendous explosions are blasting away the planet’s wi...
- 3 Years of Science: 10 Cosmic Surprises from NASA’s Webb Telescope NASA · 2 Jul 2025 Since July 2022, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has been unwaveringly focused on our universe. With its unprecedented power to detect and analyze otherwise invisible infrared light, Webb is making observations that we...
- ArianeGroup Completes Key Prometheus Rocket Engine Tests European Spaceflight · 2 Jul 2025 European rocket builder ArianeGroup has announced that it completed a series of Prometheus rocket engine test ignitions on 20 June, marking a key milestone in the programme. Developed under a European Space Agency contra...
- Strategic Demand for Sovereign EO Satellites to Fuel $182.6B Market Surge SpaceNews · 2 Jul 2025 The global pivot toward government-backed satellite programs is redefining global EO strategies, shifting demand toward defense-grade, sovereign capabilities
- NASA Stennis Engineer Takes Pride in Test Support Work NASA · 2 Jul 2025 As a controls engineer at NASA’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, Dwayne Lavigne does not just fix problems – he helps put pieces together at America’s largest rocket propulsion test site. “There are...