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- NASA, Boeing Provide Next Update on Space Station Crew Flight Test NASA · 8 Jul 2024 Leadership from NASA and Boeing will participate in a media briefing at 12:30 p.m. EDT Wednesday, July 10, to discuss the agency’s Crew Flight Test at the International Space Station. Audio of the media teleconference wi...
- NASA to Cover Northrop Grumman’s 20th Cargo Space Station Departure NASA · 8 Jul 2024 Northrop Grumman’s uncrewed Cygnus spacecraft is scheduled to depart the International Space Station on Friday, July 12, five and a half months after delivering more than 8,200 pounds of supplies, scientific investigatio...
- JAXA to support work on commercial space station technologies SpaceNews · 8 Jul 2024 Japan’s space agency is seeking industry proposals for technologies that could contribute to future commercial space stations as the government studies what role it would play in supporting efforts to replace the Interna...
- Space Force preparing for the age of proliferated low Earth orbit satellite networks SpaceNews · 8 Jul 2024 Lt. Gen. Miller: Hundreds of satellites to reshape military operations
- Pentagon greenlights $140 billion ICBM program despite cost overruns SpaceNews · 8 Jul 2024 A DoD review identified the command and launch segment as a primary driver of cost growth.
- Launch Roundup: SpaceX flies more customer payloads and Ariane 6 debuts NASASpaceflight · 8 Jul 2024 As many as four SpaceX Falcon 9 missions and the long-delayed inaugural flight of Ariane 6 make up the roster for this week’s launch schedule. The four SpaceX missions will be split evenly between Starlink and two payloa...
- 30 Years Ago: STS-65 Lifts Off NASA · 8 Jul 2024 The space shuttle Columbia launches from Pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on July 8, 1994. This was the second flight of International Microgravity Laboratory (IML-2), carrying more than twice the number...
- Nine ventures join first SoCal-UK Space Accelerator SpaceNews · 8 Jul 2024 Mandala Space Ventures, a Californian venture studio and incubator, announced July 8 the nine United Kingdom-based startups participating in its UK Space Agency-funded accelerator program this fall.
- NASA’s Neurodiversity Network Interns Speak at National Space Development Conference NASA · 8 Jul 2024 Two high school interns funded by NASA’s Neurodiversity Network (N3) presented their work from Summer 2023 at the recent National Space Society (NSS) International Space Development Conference (ISDC-2024), held in Los An...
- SpaceX launches Türksat 6A satellite, Turkey’s first domestically-built satellite Spaceflight Now · 8 Jul 2024 The spacecraft is Turkey's first home-grown communications satellite. Liftoff from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station happened at 7:30 p.m. EDT (2330 UTC).
- Ariane 6 Ready for Debut Flight Space Scout · 8 Jul 2024 Ariane 6, the European Space Agency and Arianespace’s next-generation rocket, is ready to perform its maiden flight on July 9, 2024.
- Happy Birthday, Meatball! NASA’s Iconic Logo Turns 65 NASA · 8 Jul 2024 On July 15, 2024, NASA’s logo is turning 65. The iconic symbol, known affectionately as “the meatball,” was developed at NASA’s Lewis Research Center in Cleveland (now called NASA Glenn). Employee James Modarelli, who st...
- NASA Mission to Study Mysteries in the Origin of Solar Radio Waves NASA · 8 Jul 2024 NASA’s CubeSat Radio Interferometry Experiment, or CURIE, is scheduled to launch July 9, 2024, to investigate the unresolved origins of radio waves coming from the Sun. Scientists first noticed these radio waves decades...
- The Young Professional Satellite - From Theory to Reality (episode 2) ESA · 8 Jul 2024 In the second episode of this docu series, we take a closer look into what it took to build ESA’s Young Professional Satellite (YPSat). YPSat’s mission objectives are to capture the key moments of Ariane 6’s inaugural fl...
- MDA Space taps Aerospacelab for satellite components SpaceNews · 8 Jul 2024 Aerospacelab will supply more than 200 battery charge regulators for MDA’s new line of satellites
- Scout Space selected for DARPA’s commercial tech initiative SpaceNews · 8 Jul 2024 Under the BRIDGES (Bringing Classified Innovation to Defense and Government Systems) program, DARPA will sponsor Scout for a facility clearance, providing access to classified work areas and networks
- NextSTEP Q: CIS Capability Studies III – Lunar User Terminals & Network Orchestration and Management System NASA · 8 Jul 2024 Solicitation Number: NNH16ZCQ001K-1_Appendix-Q-LUTNOMS July 8, 2024 – Solicitation Released Solicitation Overview NASA’s long-term vision to provide for a resilient space and ground communications and navigation infrastr...
- NASA’s Begoña Vila Awarded 2024 Galician Excellence Award NASA · 8 Jul 2024 Begoña Vila, an instrument systems engineer for NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, has been selected to receive the 2024 Galician Excellence Title in the Sciences and Medicine Category for her career and work on Webb. Th...
- Call for ideas on navigation demonstrators and technologies ESA · 8 Jul 2024 Do you want to help shape the future of European satellite navigation? ESA is issuing an open call via OSIP for companies and researchers to help identify future navigation demonstrators and disruptive technologies that...
- Orbital Defense Company Dark Completes Hot Fire Test Campaign European Spaceflight · 8 Jul 2024 Paris-based orbital defense company Dark has completed an initial hot fire test campaign for the combustion chamber of its Sheitan rocket engine. The engine will power the company’s air-launched Interceptor rocket. Found...
- Highlights from ESA’s first open day in the UK ESA · 8 Jul 2024 On Saturday 29 June, thousands of visitors made their way to ESA’s European Centre for Space Applications and Telecommunications (ECSAT), as part of the very first ESA open day to be held in the UK.
- Juice's lunar-Earth flyby link to blog ESA · 8 Jul 2024 Blog: Juice's lunar-Earth flyby
- Military-to-civilian space traffic transition nears critical juncture SpaceNews · 8 Jul 2024 The Office of Space Commerce is about to test its Traffic Coordination System for Space (TraCSS) after six years.
- Europe set for crucial first launch of Ariane 6 SpaceNews · 8 Jul 2024 Europe is on the brink of a crucial moment as the Ariane 6 launch vehicle prepares for its inaugural flight Tuesday.
- Could Avio’s Finalized Split from Arianespace Offer an Opening for Competitors? European Spaceflight · 8 Jul 2024 European Space Agency member states have agreed on the details of how customers already booked to be launched aboard Vega C flights will be managed after Avio splits from Arianespace. On 6 November 2023, during the ESA C...
- Space Team Europe for Ariane 6: Alexis Van Lysebeth ESA · 8 Jul 2024 They say it takes a village to raise a child. To launch a rocket, we have the combined expertise and passion of Space Team Europe. Alexis Van Lysebeth is one of many making the first Ariane 6 launch possible and has been...
- What’s Happening in Space Policy July 7-13, 2024 SpacePolicyOnline.com · 8 Jul 2024 Here is SpacePolicyOnline.com’s list of space policy events for the week of July 7-13, 2024 and any insight we can offer about them. The House and Senate are in session
- European Space Agency launches inaugural Ariane 6 rocket, encounters upper stage issue Spaceflight Now · 7 Jul 2024 The first flight of the rocket will carry several payloads unto low Earth orbit for a variety of customers, including NASA. The rocket launched from French Guiana on July 9, 2024, at 4 p.m. GFT (3 p.m. EDT, 1900 UTC), ho...
- Four Analog Astronauts Complete 378-Day Practice Mars Mission SpacePolicyOnline.com · 7 Jul 2024 Two men and two women who spent more than a year in a simulated Mars habitat emerged from isolation today. Although they actually were here on planet Earth, they lived
- Low-intensity explosion caused Russian satellite to spew debris SpaceNews · 7 Jul 2024 A Russian satellite likely suffered a “low-intensity explosion” that created hundreds of pieces of debris in low Earth orbit, according to one company’s analysis.
- Blue Origin & Stoke Space to Compete for US Space Force Small Satellite Missions The Launch Pad · 6 Jul 2024 Blue Origin & Stoke Space to Compete for US Space Force Small Satellite Missions
- Airbus Secures $2.5 Billion German Military Contract for Next-Generation Communications Satellites The Launch Pad · 6 Jul 2024 Airbus Secures $2.5 Billion German Military Contract for Next-Generation Communications Satellites
- Kazakhstan Joins China-Led International Lunar Research Station The Launch Pad · 6 Jul 2024 Kazakhstan Joins China-Led International Lunar Research Station
- Sols 4236-4238: One More Time… for Contact Science at Mammoth Lakes NASA · 6 Jul 2024 Earth planning date: Friday, July 5, 2024 Curiosity will drive away from the Mammoth Lakes drill location on the second sol of this three-sol weekend plan, but before she does, the team will take the opportunity for one...
- Super Press Release Test SpaceNews · 6 Jul 2024 The four volunteers who have been living and working inside NASA’s first simulated yearlong Mars habitat mission are set to exit their ground-based home on Saturday, July 6. NASA will
- Rafale Combat Aircraft Arrive in Kourou to Secure Skies for Ariane 6 Debut European Spaceflight · 6 Jul 2024 Three Dassault Rafale combat aircraft from the French Air and Space Force arrived in French Guiana on 1 July to secure the skies over the Ariane 6 launch site ahead of the rocket’s inaugural flight. The deployment was an...
- Pad B Starts to Rise As Booster 12 Static Fire nears NASASpaceflight · 5 Jul 2024 SpaceX preparations for flight 5 of Starship continue to focus on replacing Ship 30’s heat shield as teams prepare for Booster 12 to roll out for a static fire this upcoming week. Meanwhile, long-term planning centers ar...
- Ovzon’s debut broadband satellite ready for commercial service SpaceNews · 5 Jul 2024 Ovzon’s first fully owned satellite is ready to start commercial services following successful tests in geostationary orbit, the Swedish broadband operator announced July 5.
- The NASA Breath Diagnostics Challenge NASA · 5 Jul 2024 The NASA Breath Diagnostics challenge tasks solvers to leverage their expertise to develop a classification model that can accurately discriminate between the breath of COVID-positive and COVID-negative individuals, usin...
- SpaceX video teases potential Starship booster “catch” on next flight Ars Technica · 5 Jul 2024 A booster landing would be a calculated risk to SpaceX's launch tower infrastructure.