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- Meet Smile ESA · 4 Jun 2025 From the ESA Blogs.
- Astroscale clears critical design review for OneWeb satellite removal demo SpaceNews · 4 Jun 2025 Astroscale has completed the critical design review of a servicer aiming to remove a OneWeb broadband satellite from low Earth orbit next year, the Japanese venture’s British subsidiary announced June 4.
- Sols 4556-4558: It’s All in a Day’s (box)Work NASA · 4 Jun 2025 Written by Sharon Wilson Purdy, Planetary Geologist at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum Earth planning date: Friday, May 30, 2025 When you are scheduled to participate in Science Operations for the rover’s w...
- Live coverage: SpaceX to launch 50th Starlink mission of 2025 on Wednesday afternoon Falcon 9 flight from California Spaceflight Now · 4 Jun 2025 The Starlink 11-22 mission is SpaceX’s 68th launch of the year. Teams are targeting liftoff from pad 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base at 4:28 p.m. PDT (7:28 p.m. EDT, 2338 UTC).
- Impulse Space raises $300 million for expansion and new technology development SpaceNews · 3 Jun 2025 Impulse Space has raised $300 million in a “preemptive” funding round to enable the in-space transportation company to expand and develop electric propulsion technologies.
- America’s First Spacewalk NASA · 3 Jun 2025 NASA astronaut Ed White, pilot of the Gemini IV mission, floats in space on June 3, 1965, while performing the first spacewalk by an American. As White floated outside the spacecraft, he used a Hand-Held Maneuvering Unit...
- Commercial space companies to fund launch range upgrades under $4 billion contract SpaceNews · 3 Jun 2025 Jacobs Technology was selected to provide engineering services at East and West Coast facilities
- Future Engineers Shine at NASA’s 2025 Lunabotics Robotics Competition NASA · 3 Jun 2025 And the winner is… the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. The Utah Student Robotics Club won the grand prize Artemis Award on May 22 for NASA’s 2025 Lunabotics Challenge held at The Astronauts Memorial Foundation’s Ce...
- The Commercial Space Federation Announces the Creation of the Space Supply Chain Council (S2C2) SpaceNews · 3 Jun 2025 June 3, 2025 – Washington, D.C. – In an effort to strengthen advocacy for the U.S. space industry, the Commercial Space Federation (CSF) is proud to announce the creation of […]
- NASA Kennedy Digs Latest Robot Test NASA · 3 Jun 2025 NASA’s RASSOR (Regolith Advanced Surface Systems Operations Robot) undergoes testing to extract simulated regolith, or the loose, fragmental material on the Moon’s surface, inside of the Granular Mechanics and Regolith O...
- Interview with Dave Des Marais NASA · 3 Jun 2025 Let’s start with your childhood, where you’re from, your family at the time, if you have siblings, your early years, and when it was that you became interested in what has developed into your career as an astrophysicist...
- A Shaky Step Forward for Starship Flight 9 Space Scout · 3 Jun 2025 The ninth flight test of SpaceX’s Starship-Super Heavy rocket took place on May 27, 2025, achieving a marginal improvement over the previous two missions. Although Ship 35 completed a successful ascent, fuel leaks and a...
- Voyager launches IPO with $1.6 billion valuation target SpaceNews · 3 Jun 2025 TAMPA, Fla. — Voyager Technologies launched its initial public offering of shares June 2, targeting a valuation of $1.6 billion for the six-year-old space and defense company.
- Mount Etna erupts ESA · 3 Jun 2025 From the ESA Blogs.
- NASA’s Webb Rounds Out Picture of Sombrero Galaxy’s Disk NASA · 3 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, the So...
- c-FIRST Team Sets Sights on Future Fire-observing Satellite Constellations NASA · 3 Jun 2025 Two NASA-developed technologies are key components of a new high-resolution sensor for observing wildfires: High Operating Temperature Barrier Infrared Detector (HOT-BIRD), developed with support from NASA’s Earth Scienc...
- Hubble Filters a Barred Spiral NASA · 3 Jun 2025 This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a luminous tangle of stars and dust called the barred spiral galaxy NGC 1385, located about 30 million light-years away. Hubble released an earlier image of NGC 1385, b...
- Tuesday Telescope: Lighting, sprites, and airglow over Central America Ars Technica · 3 Jun 2025 "Soooooo much going on in this picture."
- Rocket Lab launches BlackSky satellite SpaceNews · 3 Jun 2025 A Rocket Lab Electron successfully placed a BlackSky high-resolution imaging satellite into orbit on a June 2 launch.
- Mars star ESA · 3 Jun 2025 From the ESA Blogs.
- ESA supports Moon mission carrying first European rover ESA · 3 Jun 2025 Japanese lunar exploration company ispace will attempt to land its RESILIENCE spacecraft on the Moon no earlier than 5 June (CEST) 2025.
- U.S. Space Force awards BAE Systems $1.2 billion contract for missile-tracking satellites SpaceNews · 2 Jun 2025 Space Systems Command expands medium Earth orbit constellation to counter hypersonic threats
- Golden Dome: It’s all about the data SpaceNews · 2 Jun 2025 Golden Dome’s ground control and software layers may be as vital — and competitive — as its satellites.
- South Korea’s Venus-focused cubesat advances as larger missions face NASA cuts SpaceNews · 2 Jun 2025 South Korea’s state-backed Institute for Basic Science has ordered the first of five cubesats to study Venus from LEO starting next year, boosting hopes for sustained planetary research as flagship missions face budget u...
- Launch Roundup: Falcon 9 to launch crewed mission, Rocket Lab to launch 65th Electron NASASpaceflight · 2 Jun 2025 SpaceX continues to dominate the launch manifest with five missions this week, including a crewed…
- A Star Like No Other NASA · 2 Jun 2025 An unusual star (circled in white at right) behaving like no other seen before and its surroundings are featured in this composite image released on May 28, 2025. A team of astronomers combined data from NASA’s Chandra X...
- Rocket Lab to launch BlackSky’s next Gen-3 satellite on Electron rocket from New Zealand Spaceflight Now · 2 Jun 2025 The mission will be Rocket Lab’s seventh Electron rocket launch of the year and its second in 2025 in support of BlackSky. Teams are targeting liftoff from Mahia, New Zealand at 11:57 a.m. NZT on June 3 (7:57 p.m. EDT, 2...
- EchoStar bets on TV amid FCC mobile scrutiny SpaceNews · 2 Jun 2025 EchoStar has ordered another geostationary satellite for its Dish Network TV broadcast business, even as the company signals the possibility of seeking bankruptcy protection amid a regulatory probe into its mobile spectr...
- What’s Up: June 2025 Skywatching Tips from NASA NASA · 2 Jun 2025 Planets, Solstice, and the Galaxy Venus and Saturn separate, while Mars hangs out in the evening. Plus the June solstice, and dark skies reveal our home galaxy in all of its glory. Skywatching Highlights All Month – Plan...
- Live coverage: SpaceX reschedules Starlink delivery mission for midnight hour Tuesday Spaceflight Now · 2 Jun 2025 The mission comes after a Monday morning launch attempt was scrubbed. SpaceX is targeting liftoff from pad 40 at 12:42 a.m. EDT (0442 UTC) on June 3.
- Apocalypse When? Hubble Casts Doubt on Certainty of Galactic Collision NASA · 2 Jun 2025 As far back as 1912, astronomers realized that the Andromeda galaxy — then thought to be only a nebula — was headed our way. A century later, astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope were able to measure the sidew...
- Hubble and Gaia revisit fate of our galaxy ESA · 2 Jun 2025 Over a decade’s worth of NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope data was used to re-examine the long-held prediction that the Milky Way galaxy will collide with the Andromeda galaxy in about 4.5 billion years. The astronomers f...
- EYCORE – Emerging Polish Space Defence Company Becomes Key Player in Developing National Earth Observation Constellation SpaceNews · 2 Jun 2025 During the recent 3rd ESA Security Conference held in Warsaw, the winning consortium for the implementation of Poland’s National Earth Observation Program CAMILA (Country Awareness Mission in Land Analysis) was […]
- Nuclear rocket engine for Moon and Mars ESA · 2 Jun 2025 From the ESA Blogs.
- Space assets could be held ransom. Will we have any choice but to pay? SpaceNews · 2 Jun 2025 Ransomware exploits value. Attackers put victims against a decision to pay for the hope of the return of their system or lose it. For victims, it is hard to justify […]
- SpaceNews Appoints Laurie Diamond as Vice President of Business Development to Accelerate Revenue Growth and Strategic Expansion SpaceNews · 2 Jun 2025 Washington, D.C. — SpaceNews, the trusted source for space industry news and analysis for more than 35 years, announces the appointment of Laurie Diamond as Vice President of Business Development. […]
- What’s Happening in Space Policy June 1-8, 2025 SpacePolicyOnline.com · 1 Jun 2025 Here is SpacePolicyOnline.com’s list of space policy events for the week plus a day of June 1-8, 2025 and any insight we can offer about them. The House and Senate
- How Dragonfly will support the search for life on an uninhabitable world NASASpaceflight · 1 Jun 2025 In July 2028, NASA’s next New Frontiers program mission, Dragonfly, will launch to Saturn atop…
- NASA Copes with Details of $6 Billion Budget Cut, Leadership Uncertainty SpacePolicyOnline.com · 1 Jun 2025 The Trump Administration sent the full FY2026 budget request to Congress late Friday spelling out the details of the $6 billion (24.3 percent) cut to NASA revealed in the May
- Live coverage: SpaceX to launch 23 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Spaceflight Now · 1 Jun 2025 The mission comes as solar activity triggered an alert from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration for a severe geomagnetic storm alert, which could impact the Starlink satellites. SpaceX is targeting liftof...