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- NASA Astronaut Chris Williams to Discuss Space Station Mission NASA · 27 Jul 2026 NASA astronaut Chris Williams will recap his recent eight-month mission aboard the International Space Station during a news conference at 2:45 p.m. EDT Tuesday, Aug. 4, from the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston....
- Despite recent successes, rapid reuse of Starship remains a tough nut to crack Ars Technica · 27 Jul 2026 NASA has not made substantial investments in thermal protection research for decades.
- NASA Science Soars During August Total Solar Eclipse NASA · 27 Jul 2026 Each time the Moon covers the Sun during a total solar eclipse — darkening daytime skies and briefly revealing the Sun’s ethereal outer atmosphere, the corona — it presents new opportunities to better understand our star...
- NASA Astronaut Chris Williams Returns to Earth NASA · 27 Jul 2026 NASA astronaut Chris Williams is all smiles in this July 26, 2026, photo taken shortly after he landed with Expedition 74 Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Kud-Sverchkov, and Sergei Mikaev in Kazakhstan. This was Williams’ fir...
- NASA’s Swift Sees ‘Wandering’ Mega Black Hole Shredding Star NASA · 27 Jul 2026 NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory captured an “orphan” black hole lighting up as it devoured a star on the outskirts of a faraway galaxy. These phenomena are rare to begin with, and none had ever before been seen so...
- Raging wildfires near Madrid, Spain ESA · 27 Jul 2026 From the ESA Blogs.
- NASA to Cover Three US Spacewalks, Host Preview News Conference NASA · 27 Jul 2026 NASA will provide coverage as astronauts venture outside the International Space Station during three spacewalks in August to continue upgrading solar arrays, replace a communications antenna, and connect power and data...
- NASA’s Hubble Shows Star Formation in Andromeda Galaxy Winding Down NASA · 27 Jul 2026 NASA’s Hubble finds that star formation in the Andromeda galaxy has undergone a 500-million-year decline.
- Intel debuts new chip for space computing SpaceNews · 27 Jul 2026 Starfire is designed to support onboard data processing and AI workloads.
- Orbes unveils Exo-ORB and agreement with Symphony Space SpaceNews · 27 Jul 2026 SAN FRANCISCO – Southern California startup Orbes announced an agreement July 27 to send Exo-ORB, a free-flying satellite, to gather imagery of an uncrewed Symphony Space station. Exo-ORB, which is […]
- SpaceNews Welcomes Max Aliprandi as Business Development Associate SpaceNews · 27 Jul 2026 SpaceNews today announced that Max Aliprandi has joined the company as Business Development Associate, strengthening the company’s sales, business development and product teams as SpaceNews continues to expand its audien...
- Amazon files application for direct-to-device satellite constellation SpaceNews · 27 Jul 2026 Amazon has filed plans with the Federal Communications Commission for a constellation of more than 5,100 satellites that would provide direct-to-device (D2D) services using Globalstar spectrum.
- Blue Origin to test New Glenn upper stages at Stennis SpaceNews · 27 Jul 2026 Blue Origin will use NASA’s Stennis Space Center to test New Glenn upper stages as it rebuilds its Cape Canaveral launch complex.
- Rocket Lab to open Alaska launch site under $266 million Space Force deal SpaceNews · 27 Jul 2026 New Kodiak facility will support up to 18 suborbital missions for military testing
- AI in orbit is a double-edged sword. Here’s how to keep it from cutting space cooperation apart SpaceNews · 27 Jul 2026 When we talk about stopping an arms race in space, people usually say that we need treaties that every state must follow or agreements that states can choose to follow. […]
- Meet space startups at ESA’s Industry Space Days ESA · 27 Jul 2026 Startup companies which have come up with brilliant ideas for using space will join the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Industry Space Days (ISD) event on 16–17 September at ESA-ESTEC in the Netherlands.
- France’s postal service, La Poste, honours Ariane 6 ESA · 27 Jul 2026 To mark Europe’s newest generation heavy‑lift launcher, La Poste, France’s national postal service, has issued a collector set of eight stamps featuring Ariane 6, paying tribute to Europe’s ambitious space programme.
- ESA Ground Station in Spain Cleared to Return to Service After Wildfire Threat European Spaceflight · 27 Jul 2026 The European Space Agency Director General Josef Aschbacher announced on 26 July that the agency had cleared its Cebreros deep-space ground station in Spain to return to service after inspections confirmed that the facil...
- Juno reveals surprising subsurface tempertures at Io, remarkably smooth surface NASASpaceflight · 26 Jul 2026 Following two flybys of Jupiter’s innermost Galilean moon Io, teams using data from NASA’s Juno…
- What’s Happening in Space Policy July 26-August 1, 2026 SpacePolicyOnline.com · 26 Jul 2026 Here is SpacePolicyOnline.com’s list of space policy events for the week of July 26-August 1, 2026 and any insight we can offer about them. The Senate is in session this
- Soyuz MS-28 Back Home After 8 Months on ISS SpacePolicyOnline.com · 26 Jul 2026 NASA astronaut Chris Williams and two Russian cosmonauts, Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and Sergei Mikaev, returned to Earth this morning after 8 months on the International Space Station. The three-man crew undocked
- NASA Astronaut Chris Williams, Crewmates Return from Space Station NASA · 26 Jul 2026 Concluding an eight-month science mission aboard the International Space Station, NASA astronaut Chris Williams returned to Earth on Sunday alongside Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and Sergei Mikaev. The crew...
- NASA and ESA facilities avoid major damage from wildfires in Spain SpaceNews · 26 Jul 2026 Key ground stations in Spain operated by NASA and the European Space Agency have avoided serious damage from major wildfires in the country.
- Successful Flight for Starship IFT-13 SpacePolicyOnline.com · 25 Jul 2026 The 13th Integrated Flight Test of SpaceX’s Starship system, IFT-13, was mostly a success. One week after the launch was scrubbed at the last moment because of engine failures, and
- Live Coverage: SpaceX Falcon 9 to launch Starlink satellites from West Coast Spaceflight Now · 25 Jul 2026 Liftoff from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California is scheduled for 8:51 a.m. PDT (11:51 a.m. EDT / 1551 UTC). The Falcon 9 will place 24 Starlink satellites into orbit.
- Super Heavy-Starship rocket chalks up mostly successful test flight Spaceflight Now · 25 Jul 2026 Powered by 33 methane-fueled Raptor engines, the 397-foot-tall two-stage rocket blasted off from SpaceX's "Starbase," Texas, launch site at 5:51 p.m. EDT, putting on a spectacular show for area residents and tourists as...
- SpaceX conducts 13th Starship test flight SpaceNews · 25 Jul 2026 SpaceX launched Starship on its 13th suborbital test flight July 24, correcting some of the issues seen on the previous flight while deploying functioning satellites for the first time.
- Fires near Madrid Force Evacuation of NASA’s DSN Facility SpacePolicyOnline.com · 24 Jul 2026 Wildfires near Madrid, Spain forced the evacuation of NASA’s Deep Space Network facility there today. The agency reports that everyone is safe. The Madrid station is one of three around
- ULA deals with financial challenges caused by Vulcan grounding SpaceNews · 24 Jul 2026 United Launch Alliance’s corporate parents have guaranteed a loan to the company as it addresses “financial challenges” caused by the grounding of its Vulcan Centaur rocket.
- Critical NASA Deep Space ground station in Spain evacuated due to wildfires Spaceflight Now · 24 Jul 2026 The Madrid Deep Space Communications Complex is one of three critical sites around the world that communicate with spacecraft beyond the reach of near-Earth communications capabilities.
- Blue Origin to conduct New Glenn second stage hot fires on Stennis B-2 stand NASASpaceflight · 24 Jul 2026 NASA and Blue Origin have finalized plans to hot-fire test the second stage of the…
- NASA’s ESCAPADE Snaps Family Portrait of Earth, Moon NASA · 24 Jul 2026 On July 3, one of NASA’s two Mars-destined ESCAPADE (Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers) spacecraft captured photos of Earth and the Moon in visible and thermal infrared light. At the time, the spacecr...
- New Crew Members Welcomed to International Space Station NASA · 24 Jul 2026 From left, Expedition 74 flight engineers Anna Kikina and Pyotr Dubrov of Roscosmos, and Anil Menon of NASA pose for a July 18, 2026, photo while holding a cake celebrating their recent arrival aboard the International S...
- NASA Announces New Spacecraft Technology Demonstration Mission at Moon NASA · 24 Jul 2026 NASA is working with industry to advance the next phase of cislunar infrastructure for the agency’s Artemis program and Moon Base, including orbital assets and demonstrations. Under a contract awarded to Advanced Space,...
- NASA to Support Blue Origin New Glenn Rocket Testing, Advance Artemis NASA · 24 Jul 2026 NASA and Blue Origin announced Friday they recently agreed to conduct second stage hot fire testing for the company’s New Glenn rocket on the B-2 test stand at the agency’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Missis...
- ESA Awards ispace €65M Contract to Build and Deliver MAGPIE Rover to the Moon European Spaceflight · 24 Jul 2026 ESA has awarded a contract to Luxembourg-based ispace-Europe to complete the development of the MAGPIE lunar rover and deliver it to the surface of the Moon in 2029. The Mission for Advanced Geophysics and Polar Ice Expl...
- LatConnect 60 Unveils Proprietary AI Capabilities Following Growing Indo-Pacific Defence Interest in SWIRSAT SpaceNews · 24 Jul 2026 PERTH, Australia – 24 July 2026 – LatConnect 60 (“LC60”), an Australian satellite Earth observation and AI company, today unveiled a proprietary intelligence-fusion capability that leverages the latest advancements in […...
- Office of Space Commerce to move ahead on mission authorization SpaceNews · 24 Jul 2026 The Commerce Department is moving ahead with plans to implement a voluntary mission authorization system for novel space activities that are not regulated by other agencies.
- Hubble Spies One-Sided Spiral NASA · 24 Jul 2026 This Hubble image features spiral galaxy NGC 4654, located 72 million light-years away in the constellation Virgo (the Maiden).
- Lightning strikes Long March 3B after liftoff, Kinetica-1 launches 5 satellites SpaceNews · 24 Jul 2026 HELSINKI — China conducted a pair of launches Thursday, including a Long March 3B rocket which delivered its payload to orbit despite a lightning strike. The Long March 3B rocket […]