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- House Appropriators Add Amost $3 Billion to President’s Request for Space Force SpacePolicyOnline.com · 11 Jun 2025 The House Appropriations committee took the first step in crafting a FY2026 bill to fund the Department of Defense today, albeit reluctantly. Appropriators from both parties lamented the paucity of
- Whitesides says budget proposal shows the administration does not value NASA science SpaceNews · 11 Jun 2025 A leading Democratic member of the House Science Committee criticized the proposed steep cuts in NASA’s fiscal year 2026 budget proposal.
- NASA’s CODEX Captures Unique Views of Sun’s Outer Atmosphere NASA · 10 Jun 2025 Key Points: Scientists analyzing data from NASA’s CODEX (Coronal Diagnostic Experiment) investigation have successfully evaluated the instrument’s first images, revealing the speed and temperature of material flowing out...
- AIAA’s Uniquely Interdisciplinary Space Conference—ASCEND—Poised for a Memorable Vegas Event SpaceNews · 10 Jun 2025 Next month, ASCEND 2025 kicks off in Las Vegas for the fifth annual event. AIAA’s on-ramp-to-space gathering prides itself on its interdisciplinary focus: attendees will include leaders in commercial and […]
- Lawmakers find common ground on space but Golden Dome sparks divide SpaceNews · 10 Jun 2025 Rep. Jeff Crank (R-Colo.), who serves on the House Armed Services Committee, said a draft defense appropriations bill unveiled June 9 signals bipartisan concerns that the U.S. is underinvesting in space capabilities.
- Europe clears SES-Intelsat deal without conditions SpaceNews · 10 Jun 2025 Europe has unconditionally approved SES’ plan to buy rival satellite operator Intelsat, leaving the United States as the final major regulatory hurdle in the way of the $4 billion transaction.
- Launch Roundup: ULA to launch Kuiper’s second batch of satellites, SpaceX to launch Axiom crew to ISS NASASpaceflight · 10 Jun 2025 SpaceX will launch Axiom Space’s fourth private crewed mission to the International Space Station (ISS)…
- High Above the World NASA · 10 Jun 2025 NASA astronaut Franklin Chang-Diaz works with a grapple fixture during a June 2002 spacewalk outside of the International Space Station. He was partnered with CNES (Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales) astronaut Philippe...
- Frigid Exoplanet in Strange Orbit Imaged by NASA’s Webb NASA · 10 Jun 2025 A planetary system described as abnormal, chaotic, and strange by researchers has come into clearer view with NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. Using Webb’s NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera), researchers have successfully i...
- SpaceX to debut its fifth and final Crew Dragon spacecraft on Axiom Mission 4 Spaceflight Now · 10 Jun 2025 The introduction of C213 comes years after the other four Cargo Dragon spacecraft currently in service. Ax-4 will be the third human spaceflight mission for SpaceX in 2025.
- I Am Artemis: Ernesto Garcia NASA · 10 Jun 2025 Listen to this audio excerpt from Ernesto Garcia, Rayotech Scientific engineering manager: My name is Ernesto Garcia, and I am an engineering manager at Rayotech Scientific in San Diego, in charge of fabricating the wind...
- SpaceNews successfully launches new business offering, hosts first custom event SpaceNews · 10 Jun 2025 Washington, D.C. – June 6, 2025 — SpaceNews proudly supported ispace-U.S. and the Commercial Space Federation to host a live lunar landing watch party for the Hakuto-R Mission 2. The […]
- NASA F-15s Validate Tools for Quesst Mission NASA · 10 Jun 2025 High over the Mojave Desert, two NASA F-15 research jets made a series of flights throughout May to validate tools designed to measure and record the shock waves that will be produced by the agency’s X-59 quiet supersoni...
- Ars Live recap: Where does NASA go from here? Ars Technica · 10 Jun 2025 "It creates a more unstable, shaky political environment on Earth, not just in space."
- Where are America’s Commercial Space Stations in 2025? Space Scout · 10 Jun 2025 The ISS is aging rapidly, and a replacement is desperately needed. As America’s posture in low Earth orbit threatens to slip away, where are its commercial stations in 2025?
- Apogee Semiconductor Partners with ALTER Technology and doEEEt.com to Expand Distribution of Space and Defense-Grade Technologies SpaceNews · 10 Jun 2025 Plano, Texas – Apogee Semiconductor, a leading provider of advanced technologies for space and extreme environments, today announced its partnership with ALTER Technology, a global provider and added value reseller […]
- NASA Student Challenge Prepares Future Designers for Lunar Missions NASA · 10 Jun 2025 At NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, the next generation of lunar explorers and engineers are already hard at work. Some started with sketchbooks and others worked with computer-aided design files, but all had a vi...
- Quantum Space raises $40 million SpaceNews · 10 Jun 2025 Quantum Space has raised $40 million to advance development of its Ranger spacecraft with a new focus on national security applications.
- Chinese spacecraft prepare for orbital refueling test as US surveillance sats lurk nearby SpaceNews · 10 Jun 2025 Two Chinese Shijian satellites appear to be maneuvering towards a rendezvous and docking in geostationary orbit, with U.S. surveillance spacecraft also in the vicinity.
- Xplore reveals hyperspectral imagery from first satellite SpaceNews · 10 Jun 2025 SAN FRANCISCO – Xplore Inc. unveiled hyperspectral imagery from XCUBE-1, the initial satellite in the Bellevue, Washington, startup’s remote-sensing constellation. Since XCUBE-1 was launched in December, Xplore has “buil...
- Live coverage: SpaceX to launch 23 Starlink satellites on a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Spaceflight Now · 10 Jun 2025 SpaceX will be attempting to land its 460th booster in the midst of the Starlink 12-24 mission. Teams are targeting liftoff from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at 9:05 a.m. EDT (1305 UTC).
- Laser Focused: Keith Barr Leads Orion’s Lunar Docking Efforts NASA · 10 Jun 2025 Keith Barr was born only months before the historic Apollo 11 landing in 1969. While he was too young to witness that giant leap for mankind, the moment sparked a lifelong fascination that set him on a path to design tec...
- Quebec backs Canadian launch startup Reaction Dynamics SpaceNews · 9 Jun 2025 SAN FRANCISCO – Quebec’s government announced an award of $10 million Canadian dollars ($7.3 million) to fund development of Canadian rocket startup Reaction Dynamics’ propulsion system. The funding will enable […]
- US rural broadband shift opens door wider for Starlink SpaceNews · 9 Jun 2025 The Trump administration has released new rules for distributing $42.5 billion in U.S. rural broadband funding, easing restrictions on Starlink and other satellite providers competing for support under the Biden-era prog...
- OLM Plans to Offer Commercial Launch Services from Sardinia European Spaceflight · 9 Jun 2025 An Italian commercial launch logistics company has announced that it has received approval to conduct small-scale engine tests at the Salto di Quirra military installation on the island of Sardinia. The company hopes thi...
- Live coverage: SpaceX to launch fourth commercial Axiom mission to the space station Spaceflight Now · 9 Jun 2025 The mission will the fifth flight to space for Peggy Whitson, the American with the most spaceflight experience in history. SpaceX and Axiom Space are targeting liftoff from pad 39A on Wednesday, June 11, at 8 a.m. EDT (...
- NASA’s Chandra Sees Surprisingly Strong Black Hole Jet at Cosmic “Noon” NASA · 9 Jun 2025 A black hole has blasted out a surprisingly powerful jet in the distant universe, according to a new study from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and discussed in our latest press release. This jet exists early enough in...
- Second New Glenn launch slips toward fall as program leadership departs Ars Technica · 9 Jun 2025 We need to produce a lot of second stages.
- Axiom-4 crew ready for science, flight aboard new Dragon capsule to ISS NASASpaceflight · 9 Jun 2025 SpaceX, along with Axiom Space, is ready to launch the fourth private Dragon mission to…
- Central Brazil Cerrado NASA · 9 Jun 2025 On May 19, 2025, Landsat 9 captured this image of the Serra de Caldas in the state of Goiás, Brazil. The oval plateau is covered by a biologically rich savanna and grassland ecosystem called Cerrado. The Cerrado covers a...
- House appropriators unveil defense bill, boost Space Force funding SpaceNews · 9 Jun 2025 The panel moved forward with its own defense spending blueprint as the Trump administration has yet to submit a detailed defense budget
- NASA’s TROPICS Mission: Offering Detailed Images and Analysis of Tropical Cyclones NASA · 9 Jun 2025 Introduction Tropical cyclones represent a danger to life, property, and the economies of communities. Researchers who study tropical cyclones have focused on remote observations using space-based platforms to image thes...
- Comet-Catching NASA Technology Enables Exotic Works of Art NASA · 9 Jun 2025 Consisting of 99% air, aerogel is the world’s lightest solid. This unique material has found purpose in several forms — from NASA missions to high fashion. Driven by the desire to create a 3D cloud, Greek artist, Ioannis...
- Paul Morris: Filming the Final Frontier NASA · 9 Jun 2025 Video Producer – Goddard Space Flight Center What sparked your interest in video production, and what drew you to NASA? Ever since I saw “Star Wars” at nine years old, I knew I wanted to make movies. I would make little...
- A reinvigorated push for nuclear power in space SpaceNews · 9 Jun 2025 When reporters revisit President John F. Kennedy’s address to a joint session of Congress in 1961, it is often framed as a bold moment of promises made — and ultimately […]
- A long-shot plan to mine the Moon comes a little closer to reality Ars Technica · 9 Jun 2025 To make this plan a reality, Interlune needs larger lunar landers to come online.
- Is China’s BeiDou a weapon of war? SpaceNews · 9 Jun 2025 Chinese technologies are without question a double-edged sword. From DeepSeek AI to Huawei smartphones, DJI drones and industrial port cranes, many of these tools raise valid concerns about surveillance, information […]
- Arkadia Space tests its first hydrogen peroxide thruster in orbit SpaceNews · 9 Jun 2025 Spanish startup Arkadia Space has successfully tested in orbit a thruster it has developed that uses hydrogen peroxide as propellant.
- Ignis mission: Ready for Lift-Off ESA · 9 Jun 2025 ESA project astronaut Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski is heading to the International Space Station on his first mission as part of Axiom Mission 4 (Ax-4). He is the second ESA project astronaut from a new generation of Euro...
- Watch live: Ignis launches into space ESA · 9 Jun 2025 From the ESA Blogs.