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- Week in images: 23-27 June 2025 ESA · 27 Jun 2025 Week in images: 23-27 June 2025
- All eyes on the moon: sharing information for lunar peace, safety and sustainability SpaceNews · 27 Jun 2025 We live in a brand new era for lunar activities. With over 100 payloads from around the globe planned to visit the Moon by 2030, our closest natural satellite will […]
- Ignis ignited ESA · 27 Jun 2025 From the ESA Blogs.
- Rocket Lab launches HawkEye 360 satellites SpaceNews · 27 Jun 2025 Rocket Lab launched a set of satellites for HawkEye 360 June 26 in the first of back-to-back launches from its New Zealand launch site.
- Trump budget kills NASA’s golden opportunity to see a killer asteroid up close Ars Technica · 27 Jun 2025 "Nature is handing us an incredibly rare experiment."
- China’s Shenzhou-20 astronauts complete second spacewalk to enhance Tiangong space station SpaceNews · 27 Jun 2025 Two Chinese astronauts conducted an extravehicular activity outside the Tiangong space station Thursday, marking their second spacewalk in five weeks.
- Will asteroid 2024 YR4 hit the Moon? ESA · 27 Jun 2025 Asteroid 2024 YR4 made headlines earlier this year when its probability of impacting Earth in 2032 rose as high as 3%. While an Earth impact has now been ruled out, the asteroid’s story continues.
- Adding Reconciliation, Space Force Budget Tops $40 Billion in FY2026 SpacePolicyOnline.com · 27 Jun 2025 DOD released additional information about its FY2026 budget request today. Although funding included in reconciliation bills historically has been treated separately from appropriations, the White House is combining them...
- Pentagon to consider SpaceX alternative for Space Force satellite program SpaceNews · 26 Jun 2025 The outcome of the review could impact the procurement of as many as 140 satellites for the Space Development Agency's Transport Layer Tranche 3 program
- Curiosity Blog, Sols 4580-4581: Something in the Air… NASA · 26 Jun 2025 Written by Scott VanBommel, Planetary Scientist at Washington University in St. Louis Earth planning date: Monday, June 23, 2025 Curiosity was back at work on Monday, with a full slate of activities planned. While summer...
- Terran Orbital Implements Alternative Workweek Schedule to Improve Efficiency and Support Employees SpaceNews · 26 Jun 2025 IRVINE, Calif. – June 26, 2025 – Terran Orbital Corporation, a leading manufacturer of satellite products for the aerospace and defense industry, is proud to announce the adoption of a […]
- I Am Artemis: Patrick Junen NASA · 26 Jun 2025 For some people, a passion for space is something that might develop over time, but for Patrick Junen, the desire was there from the beginning. With a father and grandfather who both worked for NASA, space exploration is...
- Trump’s ‘One Big, Beautiful Bill’ would give Space Force a nearly $40 billion budget SpaceNews · 26 Jun 2025 The Pentagon has no backup plan if the massive reconciliation package fails to pass
- Sparkling Andromeda NASA · 26 Jun 2025 The Andromeda galaxy, also known as Messier 31 (M31), is a glittering beacon in this image released on June 25, 2025, in tribute to the groundbreaking legacy of astronomer Dr. Vera Rubin, whose observations transformed o...
- Technology safeguards agreement enables Firefly launches from Sweden SpaceNews · 26 Jun 2025 An agreement between the United States and Sweden brings Firefly Aerospace one step closer to launching its Alpha rocket from a Swedish spaceport.
- By Air and by Sea: Validating NASA’s PACE Ocean Color Instrument NASA · 26 Jun 2025 In autumn 2024, California’s Monterey Bay experienced an outsized phytoplankton bloom that attracted fish, dolphins, whales, seabirds, and – for a few weeks in October – scientists. A team from NASA’s Ames Research Cente...
- NASA Mars Orbiter Learns New Moves After Nearly 20 Years in Space NASA · 26 Jun 2025 The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is testing a series of large spacecraft rolls that will help it hunt for water. After nearly 20 years of operations, NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) is on a roll, performing a new...
- NASA Citizen Scientists Find New Eclipsing Binary Stars NASA · 26 Jun 2025 When two stars orbit one another in such a way that one blocks the other’s light each time it swings around, that’s an eclipsing binary. A new paper from NASA’s Eclipsing Binary Patrol citizen science project presents mo...
- Meet the Space Ops Team: Derrick Bailey NASA · 26 Jun 2025 Since childhood, Derrick Bailey always had an early fascination with aeronautics. Military fighter jet pilots were his childhood heroes, and he dreamed of joining the aerospace industry. This passion was a springboard in...
- Ax-4 joins the International Space Station ESA · 26 Jun 2025 On 26 June 2025 ESA project astronaut Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski from Poland and his crewmates arrived to the International Space Station on the Axiom-4 mission (Ax-4). The Polish project astronaut is the second of a ne...
- Axiom-4 Continues to Expand Access to Station Space Scout · 26 Jun 2025 The crew of Axiom-4 launched aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft atop a Falcon 9 rocket from Kennedy Space Center’s LC‑39A at 2:31 AM local time, setting the stage for an international mission to the world's premier o...
- NASA’s Webb Digs into Structural Origins of Disk Galaxies NASA · 26 Jun 2025 Present-day disk galaxies often contain a thick, star-filled outer disk and an embedded thin disk of stars. For instance, our own Milky Way galaxy’s thick disk is approximately 3,000 light-years in height, and its thin d...
- What Mars can teach us about life SpaceNews · 26 Jun 2025 In this week’s episode of Space Minds David Ariosto sits down Nathalie Cabrol, Director of the Carl Sagan Center at the SETI Institute who explains why the Red Planet may hold answers about extraterrestrial life as well...
- Northrop Grumman set to test SLS Block 2 BOLE booster in Utah NASASpaceflight · 26 Jun 2025 Northrop Grumman is set to conduct the first test firing of its Booster Obsolescence and…
- New ESA gravity mission to detect weakening ocean conveyor ESA · 26 Jun 2025 At the Living Planet Symposium, attendees have been hearing how ESA’s Next Generation Gravity Mission could provide the first opportunity to directly track a vital ocean circulation system that warms our planet – but is...
- Deep tech is driving the next frontier in in-flight connectivity SpaceNews · 26 Jun 2025 In-flight connectivity (IFC) is fast becoming a major arena for innovation and growth. As airlines seek new ways to differentiate and drive revenue through enhanced passenger experiences, seamless satellite connectivity...
- NASA, Australia Team Up for Artemis II Lunar Laser Communications Test NASA · 26 Jun 2025 As NASA prepares for its Artemis II mission, researchers at the agency’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland are collaborating with The Australian National University (ANU) to prove inventive, cost-saving laser communicat...
- NASA’s acting leadership planning new agency structure SpaceNews · 26 Jun 2025 NASA’s acting administrator expects to decide on a new “top-level” structure for the agency within weeks, but a Senate-confirmed administrator may not be in place until next year.
- Latitude Commits €8M to Launch Facility in French Guiana European Spaceflight · 26 Jun 2025 French launch services provider Latitude has announced that it will conduct the inaugural flight of its Zephyr rocket from the Guiana Space Centre in French Guiana. The company has committed €8 million to developing its...
- First ‘FireSat’ satellite delivers thermal images SpaceNews · 26 Jun 2025 The satellite, built by the California-based startup Muon Space, launched March 14 aboard SpaceX's Transporter-13.
- Watch MTG-S1 and Sentinel-4 launch live ESA · 26 Jun 2025 The second of the Meteosat Third Generation (MTG) satellites and the first instrument for the Copernicus Sentinel-4 mission are ready for liftoff at Cape Canaveral in Florida, US. Live coverage of this launch will be sho...
- Earth tones on Mars ESA · 26 Jun 2025 The European Space Agency’s Mars Express has captured a swirl of colour on the Red Planet, with yellows and rust-oranges meeting deep reds and browns. Lurking within this martian palette are not one but four dust devils,...
- Satellite records expose fire driving Gran Chaco transformation ESA · 26 Jun 2025 At ESA’s Living Planet Symposium, scientist have unveiled how the combination of different long-term, high-resolution satellite datasets from ESA’s Climate Change Initiative is shedding new light on the South American Gr...
- Chinese scientists push for cubesat swarm mission to fly by infamous asteroid Apophis SpaceNews · 26 Jun 2025 China could launch a mission involving multiple flybys of asteroid Apophis with a swarm of cubesats when the rocky body approaches Earth in 2029.
- NASA’s Chandra Shares a New View of Our Galactic Neighbor NASA · 25 Jun 2025 The Andromeda galaxy, also known as Messier 31 (M31), is the closest spiral galaxy to the Milky Way at a distance of about 2.5 million light-years. Astronomers use Andromeda to understand the structure and evolution of o...
- Satellite imagery firms escalate warnings over budget cuts SpaceNews · 25 Jun 2025 At issue is the Trump administration’s proposal to cut roughly $130 million from the NRO’s commercial imagery procurement budget for fiscal 2026
- NASA Astronauts to Answer Questions from Alabama Students NASA · 25 Jun 2025 Students attending the U.S. Space and Rocket Center Space Camp in Huntsville, Alabama, will have the chance to hear NASA astronauts aboard the International Space Station answer their prerecorded questions. At 12:40 p.m....
- Rocket Lab to launch European navigation tech demo satellites SpaceNews · 25 Jun 2025 Rocket Lab will launch a pair of European navigation technology demonstration satellites, as Europe again is forced to look outside the continent for launch services.
- Waning Crescent Moon NASA · 25 Jun 2025 NASA astronaut Bob Hines took this picture of the waning crescent moon on May 8, 2022, as the International Space Station flew into an orbital sunrise 260 miles above the Atlantic Ocean off the northwest coast of the Uni...
- Following the Loss of Ship 36, SpaceX now Focuses on Rebuilding Masseys NASASpaceflight · 25 Jun 2025 Following the loss of Ship 36 at Masseys and the cleanup operations now underway, SpaceX…