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- A European spacecraft company flies its vehicle, then loses it after reentry Ars Technica · 24 Jun 2025 "This partial success reflects both ambition and the inherent risks of innovation."
- Tuesday Telescope: A new champion enters the ring Ars Technica · 24 Jun 2025 Behold the awesome power of basic science funding by the US government.
- Threatening the endless frontier of U.S. science SpaceNews · 24 Jun 2025 Eighty years ago, presidential science advisor Vannevar Bush delivered to President Harry S. Truman a remarkable report entitled “Science-The Endless Frontier.” In this report, Bush described the immense benefits of […]
- The Exploration Company claims partial success of Mission Possible reentry spacecraft SpaceNews · 24 Jun 2025 The Exploration Company said it achieved “partial success” on a test flight of a reentry capsule but lost the spacecraft before it splashed down.
- The Exploration Company Declares Mission Possible a “Partial Success” European Spaceflight · 24 Jun 2025 In-space logistics startup The Exploration Company has declared its Mission Possible flight both a partial success and a partial failure following a successful reentry. As The Exploration Company works toward the inaugur...
- Laser rangefinder problems blamed for second ispace lunar lander crash SpaceNews · 24 Jun 2025 Japanese company ispace says it believes its second lunar lander mission crashed because of problems with a laser rangefinder used to determine altitude during its descent.
- Hardware Failure Doomed ispace’s Mission 2 SpacePolicyOnline.com · 24 Jun 2025 Japanese lunar lander company ispace has concluded that their second mission to the Moon crashed on the surface because of a hardware failure in the Laser Rangefinder that should have
- Space Inventor Launches First Danish Arctic Satellite SpaceNews · 23 Jun 2025 BIFROST is a Danish-Swedish surveillance satellite originally developed by Space Inventor. Since then, Terma, Gatehouse SatCom, DTU, and Swedish Unibap Space Solutions have joined the development project, which is financ...
- Space Inventor Launches First Danish Arctic Satellite SpaceNews · 23 Jun 2025 BIFROST is a Danish-Swedish surveillance satellite originally developed by Space Inventor. Since then, Terma, Gatehouse SatCom, DTU, and Swedish Unibap Space Solutions have joined the development project, which is financ...
- York Space launches U.S. military satellite on SpaceX rideshare SpaceNews · 23 Jun 2025 Dragoon is the first of 12 satellites York is building under a contract with the Space Development Agency
- Ukraine and partner countries to raise funds for imagery satellites to lessen reliance on the U.S. SpaceNews · 23 Jun 2025 A consortium of Ukrainian, Nordic and eastern European companies is hoping to raise more than 100 million euros ($115 million) to build a constellation of 70-plus imagery satellites that would provide intelligence along...
- NASA’s SLS Solid Rocket Boosters: What is DM-1? NASA · 23 Jun 2025 Demonstration Motor-1 (DM-1) is the first full-scale ground test of the evolved five-segment solid rocket motor of NASA’s SLS (Space Launch System) rocket. The event will take place in Promontory, Utah, and will be used...
- Mission Accomplished! Artemis ROADS III National Challenge Competitors Celebrate their Achievements NASA · 23 Jun 2025 The NASA Science Activation program’s Northwest Earth and Space Sciences Pathways (NESSP) team has successfully concluded the 2024–2025 Artemis ROADS III National Challenge, an educational competition that brought real N...
- NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover Starts Unpacking Boxwork Formations NASA · 23 Jun 2025 The rover recently drilled a sample from a new region with features that could reveal whether Mars’ subsurface once provided an environment suitable for life. New images from NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover show the first cl...
- A Martian Volcano in the Mist NASA · 23 Jun 2025 Arsia Mons, one of the Red Planet’s largest volcanoes, peeks through a blanket of water ice clouds in this image captured by NASA’s 2001 Mars Odyssey orbiter on May 2, 2025. Odyssey used a camera called the Thermal Emiss...
- Clay Minerals From Mars’ Most Ancient Past? NASA · 23 Jun 2025 Recent detections of clay-bearing bedrock on Jezero’s crater rim have the Perseverance Science Team excited and eager to sample. Written by Alex Jones, Ph.D. candidate at Imperial College London Since finishing its explo...
- NASA Intern Took Career from Car Engines to Cockpits NASA · 23 Jun 2025 Some career changes involve small shifts. But for one NASA engineering intern, the leap was much bigger –moving from under the hood of a car to helping air taxis take to the skies. Saré Culbertson spent more than a decad...
- NASA Fosters Innovative, Far-Out Tech for the Future of Aerospace NASA · 23 Jun 2025 Through the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) program, NASA nurtures visionary yet credible concepts that could one day “change the possible” in aerospace, while engaging America’s innovators and entrepreneurs as...
- Atlas 5 launches second set of Project Kuiper satellites SpaceNews · 23 Jun 2025 An Atlas 5 launched a second group of satellites for Amazon’s Project Kuiper broadband constellation June 23.
- Living Planet Symposium 2025: Opening session ESA · 23 Jun 2025 ESA’s Living Planet Symposium, one of the world’s leading Earth observation conferences, opened today in Vienna. The plenary session began at 10:30 CEST and included addresses from ESA Director General Josef Aschbacher a...
- France and ESA Back Development of Dassault’s VORTEX Spaceplane European Spaceflight · 23 Jun 2025 Dassault Aviation has signed agreements with the French Ministry of the Armed Forces and the European Space Agency to develop a new spaceplane called VORTEX. During the Paris Air Show last week, French military and civil...
- NASA Tests New RS-25 Engine NASA · 23 Jun 2025 NASA tested RS-25 engine No. 20001 on June 20, at the Fred Haise Test Stand at NASA’s Stennis Space Center at Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. Test teams fired the engine for almost eight-and-a-half minutes (500 seconds), the...
- The key to Golden Dome’s success: make it usable SpaceNews · 23 Jun 2025 The Golden Dome initiative represents the largest missile defense effort in United States history — a $175 billion shield against weapons of mass destruction, aiming to be fully operational within […]
- R&D Successes Onboard Biomass ESA · 23 Jun 2025 For any space mission to launch, thousands of hours must have been spent iterating new technologies to make the spacecraft fly. The Biomass satellite, which today shared its first science data, is no exception. The probe...
- The future of ESA Transportation ESA · 23 Jun 2025 Space is huge and essential to humankind, fuelling knowledge, supporting our economies and driving global prosperity. None of this would be possible without reliable access to space.
- Increase in Ariane 6 launch cadence could take several years SpaceNews · 23 Jun 2025 While Arianespace is committed to moving to its peak launch rate of the Ariane 6 “as soon as possible,” it may take several years to do so.
- Biomass satellite returns striking first images of forests and more ESA · 23 Jun 2025 Today, at the Living Planet Symposium, ESA revealed the first stunning images from its groundbreaking Biomass satellite mission – marking a major leap forward in our ability to understand how Earth’s forests are changing...
- Heather Cowardin Safeguards the Future of Space Exploration NASA · 23 Jun 2025 As branch chief of the Hypervelocity Impact and Orbital Debris Office at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Dr. Heather Cowardin leads a team tasked with a critical mission: characterizing and mitigating orbital deb...
- Isaacman interested in privately funded science missions SpaceNews · 23 Jun 2025 Former NASA administrator nominee Jared Isaacman says he is interested in pursuing some of the goals he had for the agency from outside it.
- ULA testing OpenAI’s government-compliant chatbot SpaceNews · 22 Jun 2025 'RocketGPT' among first deployments of government-compliant ChatGPT designed for sensitive aerospace data
- What’s Happening in Space Policy June 22-28, 2025 SpacePolicyOnline.com · 22 Jun 2025 Here is SpacePolicyOnline.com’s list of space policy events for the week of June 22-28, 2025 and any insight we can offer about them. The House and Senate are in session
- Live coverage: ULA to launch Kuiper 2 mission on Atlas 5 rocket from Cape Canaveral Spaceflight Now · 22 Jun 2025 The 27 Kuiper satellites will head to low Earth orbit on an Atlas 5 rocket flying in a 551 configuration, using five solid rocket boosters. ULA is targeting liftoff at 6:54 a.m. EDT (1054 UTC) on Monday, June 23.
- China launches ChinaSat-9C geostationary communications satellite SpaceNews · 22 Jun 2025 China launched the ChinaSat-9C communications satellite Friday to replace an aging, foreign-built predecessor and boost domestic broadcasting capabilities.
- SpaceX set to launch Transporter 14 rideshare mission NASASpaceflight · 22 Jun 2025 SpaceX’s next mission as part of its Transporter small payload rideshare program, Transporter 14, is…
- HyPrSpace to Launch Baguette One Demonstrator from Mainland France European Spaceflight · 22 Jun 2025 French rocket builder HyPrSpace will launch its Baguette One demonstrator from a missile testing site in mainland France, after signing an agreement with the country’s defence procurement agency. Founded in 2019, French...
- Live coverage: SpaceX to launch Falcon 9 rocket on Transporter-14 smallsat rideshare mission Spaceflight Now · 22 Jun 2025 The mission will carry 70 payloads to low Earth orbit, including three orbital transfer vehicles and re-entry capsules. SpaceX is targeting liftoff from pad 4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base at 2:18 p.m. PDT (5:18, p.m....
- Airbus says space business turnaround going well SpaceNews · 21 Jun 2025 Airbus executives say they are making good progress to turn around the company’s space business unit even as they consider combining it with those at two other European companies.
- Live coverage: SpaceX to launch 27 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Spaceflight Now · 21 Jun 2025 The Starlink 10-23 mission will be SpaceX’s 260th orbital flight from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Liftoff of the Falcon 9 rocket is scheduled for 1:47 a.m. (0547 UTC).
- ESA Moves Forward While NASA Prepares to Step Back in S&T SpacePolicyOnline.com · 21 Jun 2025 ESA celebrated its 50th birthday at this week’s Paris Air Show, signing agreements for future space missions, releasing a space technology vision, and reinforcing its association with the European Union.
- POLARIS Spaceplanes to Equip its Vehicles with Air-to-Air Missiles European Spaceflight · 21 Jun 2025 POLARIS Spaceplanes has partnered with German defence contractor Diehl Defence to develop the Airborne Launching and Attack System (AirLAS), arming an uncrewed POLARIS vehicle with an IRIS-T air-to-air missile. Founded i...