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- Watch live: Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski docks to the Space Station ESA · 9 Jun 2025 From the ESA Blogs.
- Watch live: Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski arrives at International Space Station ESA · 9 Jun 2025 From the ESA Blogs.
- Starliner future plans still in limbo SpaceNews · 8 Jun 2025 A year after the launch of a flawed crewed test flight Starliner, NASA has yet to determine the next mission for the spacecraft with mixed signals about the vehicle’s future.
- What’s Happening in Space Policy June 8-14, 2025 SpacePolicyOnline.com · 8 Jun 2025 Here is SpacePolicyOnline.com’s list of space policy events for the week of June 8-14, 2025 and any insight we can offer about them. The House and Senate are in session
- Booster 14 Reflies, SpaceX already preparing next vehicle for Primary Objectives NASASpaceflight · 7 Jun 2025 Starship Flight 9 is in the books, and SpaceX reflew a Super Heavy Booster and,…
- Live coverage: SpaceX to launch 26 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg SFB Spaceflight Now · 7 Jun 2025 The mission, dubbed Starlink 15-8, will be SpaceX’s 70th Falcon 9 launch of the year. It’s targeting a liftoff from pad 4 East at 6:34 a.m. PDT (9:34 a.m. EDT, 1334 UTC).
- Further delays of Starliner’s next flight mark anniversary of its first crewed Space Station docking Spaceflight Now · 7 Jun 2025 NASA said the next launch of the Boeing crew vehicle is now targeting no earlier than early 2026. However, that hinges on testing campaign set to take place at the White Sands Test Facility in New Mexico.
- Sols 4561-4562: Prepping to Drill at Altadena NASA · 6 Jun 2025 Written by Conor Hayes, Graduate Student at York University Earth planning date: Wednesday, June 4, 2025 We are continuing to look for a suitable location to collect a drilled sample in this area. As you may recall from...
- From Garment Industry to NASA: Meet Systems Engineer Daniel Eng NASA · 6 Jun 2025 As a child in the 1960s, Daniel Eng spent his weekends in New York City’s garment district in Manhattan’s Lower East Side, clipping loose threads off finished clothing. He worked alongside his mother, a seamstress, and h...
- Searching for Ancient Rocks in the ‘Forlandet’ Flats NASA · 6 Jun 2025 Written by Henry Manelski, Ph.D. student at Purdue University This week Perseverance continued its gradual descent into the relatively flat terrain outside of Jezero Crater. In this area, the science team expects to find...
- NASA’s ESCAPADE could launch on second New Glenn SpaceNews · 6 Jun 2025 A NASA Mars smallsat mission bumped from the first launch of Blue Origin’s New Glenn is tentatively set to fly on the second New Glenn later this summer.
- Dr. Natasha Schatzman Receives Vertical Flight Society (VFS) Award NASA · 6 Jun 2025 Dr. Natasha Schatzman Receives Vertical Flight Society (VFS) Award In May 2025, Dr. Natasha Schatzman, aerospace engineer in the Aeromechanics Office at NASA Ames Research Center, received the inaugural Alex M. Stoll Awa...
- LC-39A Starship Tower "Eliminated"; Multiple Starship Pads Coming To Cape Canaveral SLC-37 The Launch Pad · 6 Jun 2025 LC-39A Starship Tower "Eliminated"; Multiple Starship Pads Coming To Cape Canaveral SLC-37
- Webb Sees Sombrero Galaxy in Near-Infrared NASA · 6 Jun 2025 After capturing an image of the iconic Sombrero galaxy at mid-infrared wavelengths in late 2024, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has now followed up with an observation in the near-infrared. In the newest image, releas...
- NASA Mars Orbiter Captures Volcano Peeking Above Morning Cloud Tops NASA · 6 Jun 2025 The 2001 Odyssey spacecraft captured a first-of-its-kind look at Arsia Mons, which dwarfs Earth’s tallest volcanoes. A new panorama from NASA’s 2001 Mars Odyssey orbiter shows one of the Red Planet’s biggest volcanoes, A...
- NASA’s Ready-to-Use Dataset Details Land Motion Across North America NASA · 6 Jun 2025 An online tool maps measurements and enables non-experts to understand earthquakes, subsidence, landslides, and other types of land motion. NASA is collaborating with the Alaska Satellite Facility in Fairbanks to create...
- NASA Provides Hardware for Space Station DNA Repair Experiment NASA · 6 Jun 2025 When it comes to helping NASA scientists better understand the effects of space travel on the human body, fruit flies are the heavyweights of experiments in weightlessness. Because humans and fruit flies share a lot of s...
- Africa’s new space agency presents a unified space front SpaceNews · 6 Jun 2025 Africa is seeking a greater role in the global space economy following the official inauguration of the African Space Agency (AfSA) April 20. The ceremony marked the culmination of a […]
- Week in images: 02-06 June 2025 ESA · 6 Jun 2025 Week in images: 02-06 June 2025
- The new attack surface: from space to smartphone SpaceNews · 6 Jun 2025 Imagine having seamless mobile broadband access anywhere on Earth, from the most remote deserts and oceans to disaster zones, all without the need for cell towers. That’s the promise of […]
- First Themis Test Flight Likely to Slip to 2026 European Spaceflight · 6 Jun 2025 The European Space Agency’s Themis programme has suffered another setback, with the inaugural flight of its reusable booster demonstrator now all but certain to slip to 2026. Adopted by ESA member states in November 2019...
- Musk-Trump dispute includes threats to SpaceX contracts SpaceNews · 6 Jun 2025 An escalating feud between President Trump and Elon Musk June 5 included threats to cancel SpaceX contracts and decommission spacecraft, although those words have yet to become actions.
- Geospatial intelligence companies highlight Earth observation images SpaceNews · 6 Jun 2025 It’s one thing to talk about commercial geospatial intelligence and another to see it.At the 2025 GEOINT Symposium in St. Louis last month, companies displayed their latest imagery and discussed […]
- Hubble Captures Starry Spectacle NASA · 6 Jun 2025 A galaxy ablaze with young stars is the subject of this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image. Named NGC 685, this galaxy is situated about 64 million light-years away in the constellation Eridanus (the River). NGC 685 i...
- China launches fourth group of Guowang megaconstellation satellites SpaceNews · 6 Jun 2025 China launched a fourth group of satellites for its Guowang low Earth orbit megaconstellation Thursday, but released few details about the payload or objectives.
- Live coverage: SpaceX to launch SXM-10 satellite for SiriusXM on Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Spaceflight Now · 6 Jun 2025 The SXM-10 satellite launch comes six months after the SXM-9 satellite was launched from Florida. SpaceX is targeting liftoff from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Friday, June 6 at 11:19 p.m. EDT (0319 UT...
- ispace’s Resilience lander crash lands on the Moon Spaceflight Now · 6 Jun 2025 This was the second consecutive failed landing for the Japan-based company. A preliminary analysis points to issues with the laser altimeter.
- A Second Lunar Landing Failure for ispace SpacePolicyOnline.com · 6 Jun 2025 A second attempt by a Japanese company to land on the Moon failed today, two years after the first try. In a post-landing press conference, the company, ispace, said they
- Senate Committee Wants to Keep Gateway, SLS and Orion SpacePolicyOnline.com · 6 Jun 2025 The Senate committee that oversees NASA released its proposal for the reconciliation bill today signaling support for NASA’s current Moon to Mars plan, not the Trump Administration’s version. The $10
- Second ispace lunar lander presumed lost SpaceNews · 6 Jun 2025 Resilience, the second mission by Japanese company ispace, likely crashed attempting a landing on the moon June 5.
- Senate response to White House budget for NASA: Keep SLS, nix science Ars Technica · 5 Jun 2025 Gateway is back, baby.
- Cruz seeks $10 billion for NASA programs in budget reconciliation bill SpaceNews · 5 Jun 2025 The chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee unveiled a proposal to add $10 billion to a budget reconciliation bill to offset cuts to NASA human spaceflight and exploration programs.
- Musk Threatens to Decommission Dragon Amid Feud with Trump SpacePolicyOnline.com · 5 Jun 2025 Less than one week after Elon Musk and President Trump shared a warm Oval Office send-off as Musk ended his Special Government Employee status, the two are in a war
- HASC warns White House over delayed defense budget, potential cuts to Space Force funding SpaceNews · 5 Jun 2025 Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Ala.) said the delays are "not helpful" and could force Congress to act unilaterally on defense spending.
- Senators unveil bipartisan bill to boost space cooperation with Indo-Pacific allies SpaceNews · 5 Jun 2025 Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Colo.), a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, and Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.), who sits on the Armed Services Committee, introduced the Quad Space Act
- NASA Awards Third Crowdsourcing Contract Iteration NASA · 5 Jun 2025 NASA continues to collaborate with global communities to solve complex challenges through crowdsourcing with a series of 25 new NASA Open Innovation Service (NOIS) contracts managed by the agency’s Johnson Space Center i...
- Here are the ways the US space program dies if Trump cancels SpaceX contracts Ars Technica · 5 Jun 2025 "I was always surprised that Biden didn't do it!"
- Auburn Team Wins 2025 NASA Moon and Mars Design Competition NASA · 5 Jun 2025 A team from Auburn University took top honors in NASA’s 2025 Revolutionary Aerospace Systems – Academic Linkage (RASC-AL) Competition Forum, where undergraduate and graduate teams competed to develop new concepts for ope...
- NASA Earth Scientist Elected to National Academy of Sciences NASA · 5 Jun 2025 Earth scientist Compton J. Tucker has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences for his work creating innovative tools to track the planet’s changing vegetation from space. It’s research that has spanned nearly 50...
- ICESat-2 Applications Team Hosts Satellite Bathymetry Workshop NASA · 5 Jun 2025 Introduction On September 15, 2018, the NASA Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2) mission launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base and began its journey to provide spatially dense and fine precision globa...