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- Live coverage: ispace makes second attempt at historic Moon landing Spaceflight Now · 5 Jun 2025 Mission 2, formally dubbed ‘SMBC x Hakuto-R Venture Moon,’ is a follow up to ispace’s 2023 failed landing attempt. Touchdown is anticipated on June 5 at 3:17 p.m. EDT / 1917 UTC (4:17 a.m. JST on June 6).
- NASA’s IXPE Obtains First X-ray Polarization Measurement of Magnetar Outburst NASA · 5 Jun 2025 What happens when the universe’s most magnetic object shines with the power of 1000 Suns in a matter of seconds? Thanks to NASA’s IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer), a mission in collaboration with ASI (Italian Sp...
- HAKUTO-R Mission 2 prepares to land on the Moon NASASpaceflight · 5 Jun 2025 Just over two years after the Japanese company ispace attempted but failed to land its…
- NASA’s PACE Mission Reveals a Year of Terrestrial Data on Plant Health NASA · 5 Jun 2025 A lot can change in a year for Earth’s forests and vegetation, as springtime and rainy seasons can bring new growth, while cooling temperatures and dry weather can bring a dieback of those green colors. And now, a novel...
- ESA Awards ispace New Contract for MAGPIE Moon Mission European Spaceflight · 5 Jun 2025 The European Space Agency has awarded a contract to Luxembourg-based ispace EUROPE to develop a rover that will study the surface of the Moon. The ispace EUROPE-led consortium was awarded an initial pre-Phase A contract...
- NASA Astronaut Jeanette Epps Retires NASA · 5 Jun 2025 NASA astronaut Jeanette Epps retired May 30, after nearly 16 years of service with the agency. Epps most recently served as a mission specialist during NASA’s SpaceX Crew-8 mission, spending 235 days in space, including...
- Trump’s push for procurement reform faces familiar hurdles SpaceNews · 5 Jun 2025 The Pentagon’s long war with its own procurement bureaucracy is entering a new phase. The Trump administration has directed an overhaul of defense acquisition by accelerating modernization and embracing commercial […]
- Earth from Space: Saharan dust plume ESA · 5 Jun 2025 From the ESA Blogs.
- Jack Kaye Retires After a Storied Career at NASA NASA · 5 Jun 2025 Jack Kaye [NASA HQ—Associate Director for Research, Earth Science Division (ESD)] has decided to retire on April 30, 2025, following 42 years of service to NASA – see Photo 1. Most recently, Kaye served as associate dire...
- In Memoriam: Dr. Stanley Sander NASA · 5 Jun 2025 Dr. Stanley Sander dedicated more than five decades to atmospheric science at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, beginning his JPL career as a graduate research assistant in 1971. A leading figure in atmospheric chemistry, S...
- The Blue Danube Waltz sent into the stars ESA · 5 Jun 2025 On 31 May, a live performance of The Blue Danube – often referred to as the ‘anthem of space’ – was transmitted by the European Space Agency (ESA) into the vastness of space. The event marked a double celebration: ESA’s...
- Inside the Space Force’s unconstrained first days SpaceNews · 5 Jun 2025 In this week's episode of Space Minds Retired Space Force Lt. Gen. John Shaw explains what it was like building a new military branch, the risks of commercial integration and the race to protect U.S. satellites in orbit.
- Hydrosat poised to launch second thermal-infrared satellite SpaceNews · 5 Jun 2025 SAN FRANCISCO — Hydrosat announced plans June 5 to gather thermal-infrared imagery with a second satellite launching later this month on the SpaceX Transporter-14 rideshare. VanZyl-2 has four times the […]
- NASA withdraws support for conferences SpaceNews · 5 Jun 2025 A space station research conference has been canceled and the future of a long-running planetary science conference is in doubt as NASA pulls back support for those events.
- U.S. satellite firms look abroad as foreign nations seek ‘sovereign’ eyes in the sky SpaceNews · 5 Jun 2025 The move reflects the democratization of space-based Earth observation technology as well as broader geopolitical realignments.
- Why MTG-S1 is a nowcasting game-changer ESA · 5 Jun 2025 The Meteosat Third Generation Sounder satellite (MTG-S) will generate a completely new type of data product, especially suited to nowcasting severe weather events. Here are five ways in which Europe’s latest weather sate...
- Europe’s far-reaching Space Act nears launch SpaceNews · 5 Jun 2025 Europe is expected to publish a draft law by the end of June to overhaul the regulation of space services, introducing unified rules for companies operating in or selling to the European market.
- ESA’s new asteroid hunter opens its eye to the sky ESA · 5 Jun 2025 The European Space Agency’s (ESA) newest planetary defender has opened its ‘eye’ to the cosmos for the first time. The Flyeye telescope’s ‘first light’ marks the beginning of a new chapter in how we scan the skies for ne...
- Sols 4559-4560: Drill Campaign — Searching for a Boxwork Bedrock Drill Site NASA · 5 Jun 2025 Written by Lucy Lim, Planetary Scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Earth planning date: Monday, June 2, 2025 Now that Curiosity has spent a few sols collecting close-up measurements of the rocks in the outer...
- Isaacman: people with ‘axes to grind’ about Musk caused withdrawn NASA nomination SpaceNews · 4 Jun 2025 Jared Isaacman made clear he believes his nomination to be administrator of NASA was pulled by the White House because of his ties to Elon Musk.
- Jared Isaacman speaks out, and it’s clear that NASA lost a visionary leader Ars Technica · 4 Jun 2025 "We went from the atomic bomb in 1945 to laying the keel on the Nautilus in 1951."
- Hubble Captures Cotton Candy Clouds NASA · 4 Jun 2025 This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a sparkling cloudscape from one of the Milky Way’s galactic neighbors, a dwarf galaxy called the Large Magellanic Cloud. Located 160,000 light-years away in the constel...
- NASA Sets Coverage for Axiom Mission 4 Launch, Arrival at Station NASA · 4 Jun 2025 NASA, Axiom Space, and SpaceX are targeting 8:22 a.m. EDT, Tuesday, June 10, for launch of the fourth private astronaut mission to the International Space Station, Axiom Mission 4. The mission will lift off from Launch C...
- Lockheed Martin launches ‘AI Fight Club’ to test algorithms for warfare SpaceNews · 4 Jun 2025 The company aims to create a digital proving ground for AI systems across air, land, sea, and space operations.
- NASA, ISRO Research Aboard Fourth Private Astronaut Mission to Station NASA · 4 Jun 2025 NASA and ISRO (Indian Space Research Organisation) are collaborating to launch scientific investigations aboard Axiom Mission 4, the fourth private astronaut mission to the International Space Station. These studies incl...
- Galaxy Clusters on Course to Crash Again, NASA’s Chandra Finds NASA · 4 Jun 2025 New observations from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and other telescopes have captured a rare cosmic event: two galaxy clusters have collided and are now poised to head back for another swipe at each other. Galaxy clu...
- 3 Black Holes Caught Eating Massive Stars in NASA Data NASA · 4 Jun 2025 Black holes are invisible to us unless they interact with something else. Some continuously eat gas and dust, and appear to glow brightly over time as matter falls in. But other black holes secretly lie in wait for years...
- Core Components for NASA’s Roman Space Telescope Pass Major Shake Test NASA · 4 Jun 2025 The core portion of NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has successfully completed vibration testing, ensuring it will withstand the extreme shaking experienced during launch. Passing this key milestone brings Roman...
- Tall ship brings ESA ocean science training to Nice ESA · 4 Jun 2025 After an extraordinary six-week voyage from northern Norway, the iconic Norwegian tall ship Statsraad Lehmkuhl has docked in Nice, France, concluding ESA’s 2025 Advanced Ocean Training course. Braving everything from wil...
- How NASA advisory committees are navigating a new political landscape SpaceNews · 4 Jun 2025 Since the start of the second Trump administration, NASA’s formal advisory committees have largely been suspended. While the congressionally mandated Aerospace Safety Advisory Committee has continued its work, the NASA [...
- How a Childhood Telescope Launched a NASA Career NASA · 4 Jun 2025 Christina Zeringue remembers being 10 years old, looking to the sky through her new telescope to view the Moon and planets on Christmas night. It opened her eyes to space and inspired her journey from the backyard to NAS...
- I Am Artemis: Lili Villarreal NASA · 4 Jun 2025 Lili Villarreal fell in love with space exploration from an early age when her and her family visited the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida. So, it should come as no surprise that when the opportunity came...
- An in-space propulsion company just raised a staggering amount of money Ars Technica · 4 Jun 2025 "The Space Force said, 'Hey, we know what that thing's for.'"
- Lunar helium-3: separating market from marketing SpaceNews · 4 Jun 2025 On May 5, 2025, Interlune — a Seattle-based startup — announced a new agreement with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE): they’ll deliver helium-3, harvested from the moon, to Earth […]
- ESA transmits the Blue Danube Waltz into deep space ESA · 4 Jun 2025 On 31 May 2025, the European Space Agency (ESA) made history by transmitting a live performance of The Blue Danube Waltz into space from its Cebreros deep space antenna in Spain. This symbolic gesture elevated Johann Str...
- Second ispace mission ready for lunar landing attempt SpaceNews · 4 Jun 2025 Japanese company ispace is set to make its second attempt to land on the moon this week as the company looks ahead to larger, more ambitious lunar landers.
- NASA’s budget crisis presents an opportunity for change SpaceNews · 4 Jun 2025 When the White House’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB) released its top-level budget proposal for fiscal year 2026 on May 2, NASA and the space industry feared the worst. […]
- Maxar inks partnership with Saab for defense applications of geospatial data SpaceNews · 4 Jun 2025 Under the agreement, Saab can access Maxar's satellite imagery, 3D data, technical expertise and Maxar's visual-based navigation technology.
- A breath of fresh data: Sentinel-4 innovates for clean air ESA · 4 Jun 2025 From its vantage point outside Earth’s atmosphere, more than 36 000 km above Earth’s surface, the Copernicus Sentinel-4 mission will detect major air pollutants over Europe in unprecedented detail. It will observe how th...
- T-Minus to Launch a Pair of Barracuda Rockets from Nova Scotia European Spaceflight · 4 Jun 2025 Dutch rocket builder T-Minus Engineering has signed an agreement with Canada’s Maritime Launch Services to carry out two rocket launches from Spaceport Nova Scotia in October. Founded in 2011, T-Minus develops and operat...