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- Training while flying: Inside BepiColombo's arrival simulations ESA · 10 Jul 2026 From the ESA Blogs.
- Interior Department requests information on offshore launch options SpaceNews · 9 Jul 2026 An office of the U.S. Department of the Interior is seeking information on concepts for performing offshore orbital launches, part of a broader effort to reduce congestion at existing spaceports.
- SDA TAP Lab Evolves Into BMC3I TAP Lab And In Partnership With Catalyst Campus Launches A New Multi-Phased Program To Accelerate Mission-Focused Technology Development SpaceNews · 9 Jul 2026 Catalyst Campus for Technology and Innovation (CCTI) and the BMC3I TAP Lab Colorado are excited to announce a new multi-phased program designed to strengthen collaboration between commercial innovators and government […]
- NASA Sets Coverage for Astronaut Anil Menon Launch to Space Station NASA · 9 Jul 2026 NASA astronaut Anil Menon will launch aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-29 spacecraft to the International Space Station on Tuesday, July 14, accompanied by cosmonauts Pyotr Dubrov and Anna Kikina, where they will join the E...
- The Exploration Company establishes US entity to pursue government contracts SpaceNews · 9 Jul 2026 JOHANNESBURG — The Exploration Company, a space transportation company based in Germany, established TEC Federal, a United States-based entity that will enable it to compete for government programs and contracts. […]
- NASA Space Telescope Maps Magnetic Fields of ‘Lighthouse’ Pulsar NASA · 9 Jul 2026 For the first time, scientists have used NASA’s IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer) to directly measure the magnetic fields of PSR J1101−6101, a pulsar located within what is often referred to as the Lighthouse Neb...
- Environmental groups seek FCC pause on orbital data center constellations SpaceNews · 9 Jul 2026 Environmental and scientific groups are calling for a halt to processing orbital data center applications, arguing the rush to move computing infrastructure into space has raised the stakes in a broader push for more meg...
- Principal Investigator and Quality Assessment Reports Evaluate Umbra Synthetic Aperture Radar Data NASA · 9 Jul 2026 The reports add to the growing documentation on commercial data’s contributions to Earth science research and applications.
- Curiosity Sees Martian Sulfur Up Close NASA · 9 Jul 2026 This close-up view shows fragments of sulfur crystals — the first ever seen on the Red Planet. The crystals were found after NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover happened to drive over a rock and crush it on May 30, 2024. Several...
- NASA Scientists Take to Air and Space to Study Arctic Sea Ice NASA · 9 Jul 2026 This month, engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California are testing a spacecraft sensor that will help measure how quickly Arctic sea ice is disappearing. And while that instrument won’t launch f...
- Satellites in tandem reveal 30 years of Antarctic ice flow ESA · 9 Jul 2026 Thirty years after the European Space Agency first demonstrated the power of flying two satellites in very close formation, the concept was recently recreated. By temporarily positioning two Copernicus Sentinel-1 radar s...
- Xona unveils program to verify Pulsar-compatible devices SpaceNews · 9 Jul 2026 SAN FRANCISCO – Xona, the Silicon Valley startup establishing Pulsar, a precision positioning, navigation and timing (PNT) constellation, announced a high-profile roster of partners developing compatible equipment. Xona...
- Volatility is often the price of ambition SpaceNews · 9 Jul 2026 For the growing number of constellations being designed around Starship, the wild ups and downs in the early days of SpaceX’s historic IPO have a familiar rhythm. While some of […]
- Maintaining leadership in space with Victoria Coleman SpaceNews · 9 Jul 2026 In this episode of the Space Minds podcast, David Ariosto talks with Victoria Coleman, the former chief scientist for the U.S. Air Force who now serves as associate provost of […]
- Space Force completes procurement reorganization, creating nine acquisition portfolios SpaceNews · 9 Jul 2026 New portfolio acquisition executives will control requirements and modernization decisions across major mission areas
- ArianeGroup Tests Upgraded Ariane 6 Upper Stage Rocket Engine European Spaceflight · 9 Jul 2026 Details of a previously unannounced test campaign involving an upgraded Ariane 6 rocket engine have emerged in the 2025 annual accounts of ArianeGroup SAS, the group’s French entity. The filings describe the testing of a...
- The newest entrant in the military’s launch competition isn't actually a launch company Ars Technica · 9 Jul 2026 "I think it's fair to say that Phase 3 did not contemplate this."
- Space Force awards Pulse Space $40 million to advance laser power technology SpaceNews · 9 Jul 2026 The startup is developing laser systems that transmit power and data between spacecraft
- The hidden flow ESA · 9 Jul 2026 From the ESA Blogs.
- Golden Dome and the search for new space markets SpaceNews · 9 Jul 2026 Even as many details of Golden Dome remain unsettled, the missile-defense program has become a focal point for space and defense startups looking for new markets
- Blue Origin seeks to raise $10 billion in outside capital SpaceNews · 9 Jul 2026 Blue Origin is planning to raise $10 billion in the company’s first outside investment to support its ambitions in launch services and satellite constellations.
- MDA Space buys French Earth data analytics company CLS SpaceNews · 9 Jul 2026 Canadian company MDA Space is buying a French Earth data analytics company in its second big acquisition in recent weeks, part of wave of mergers and acquisitions in the industry.
- Navigation Training Course 2026 ESA · 9 Jul 2026 From the ESA Blogs.
- Super Typhoon Bavi NASA · 9 Jul 2026 The third category 5 tropical cyclone of 2026 crossed the U.S. Northern Mariana Islands and Guam before continuing toward Asia.
- New Singapore space agency seeks to build up the country’s space industry SpaceNews · 9 Jul 2026 Singapore’s new space agency signed a cooperation agreement with its Japanese counterpart as part of its efforts to build up the country’s space industry.
- Live coverage: SpaceX to launch Falcon 9 rocket on record-breaking 36th flight Spaceflight Now · 9 Jul 2026 The flight-leading booster, B1067, will launch the Starlink 10-42 mission from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Liftoff from pad 40 is scheduled for 5:25 a.m. EDT (0925 UTC) on Thursday morning.
- Rocket Lab sees Electron gains, Neutron delays in first half of 2026 NASASpaceflight · 8 Jul 2026 Rocket Lab’s Electron rocket has had a record stretch through the first half of 2026,…
- ispace to send larger payloads to the moon on SpaceX’s Starship SpaceNews · 8 Jul 2026 Japanese lunar exploration company ispace is buying space on a future Starship lunar lander mission to deliver larger payloads to the moon.
- Students Connect NASA Science With Indigenous Knowledge to Study Coastal Erosion NASA · 8 Jul 2026 Story by Keri Moskowitz, Gulf of Maine Research Institute For the Pleasant Point Passamaquoddy Reservation, or Sipayik, the ocean has always been a teacher. Situated in what is known as Downeast Maine, along the shores o...
- Japan’s ispace Expanding into Lunar Infrastructure SpacePolicyOnline.com · 8 Jul 2026 Japan’s ispace robotic lunar landing company is expanding into the lunar infrastructure business through an agreement with SpaceX. Instead of just landing on the Moon, they are offering end-to-end services
- Is this the year for a NASA authorization bill? SpaceNews · 8 Jul 2026 Appropriators, like fans of hard-luck sports teams, say every year that this year will be different. That this will be the year that “regular order” returns to the appropriations process, […]
- NASA Awards Contracts for Mars Advanced Surface Mobility Technology NASA · 8 Jul 2026 July 8, 2026 C.13 NASA Awards Contracts for Mars Advanced Surface Mobility Technology NASA has selected seven companies for contract awards under the Mars Exploration Program’s Science Transport and Robotic Innovation fo...
- Loft Orbital Books Multiple Launches Aboard MaiaSpace Rockets European Spaceflight · 8 Jul 2026 US-based satellite operator Loft Orbital has signed a multi-launch agreement with ArianeGroup subsidiary MaiaSpace. Although the announcement provided few details, it did share that the first flight was expected in 2028....
- Hubble Captures Star-Studded Cluster NASA · 8 Jul 2026 This image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope showcases Messier 3 (M3), one of the Milky Way galaxy’s most massive globular clusters, or spherical collections of gravitationally bound stars. Globular clusters are made up...
- The satellite industry’s most expensive problem isn’t in orbit SpaceNews · 8 Jul 2026 AST SpaceMobile recently deployed three more BlueBird satellites into low Earth orbit as it advances plans for a space-based cellular broadband network of 45 to 60 satellites by the end […]
- Fi expands Starlink direct-to-device capability into dog-tracking SpaceNews · 8 Jul 2026 Pet technology company Fi launched a dog tracker July 8 that uses T-Mobile’s Starlink-enabled T-Satellite service to remain connected across the United States, even outside the telco’s terrestrial network.
- Blue Origin, for the first time, is expected to raise private capital Ars Technica · 8 Jul 2026 The company is raising $10 billion, leading to a valuation of $130 billion.
- Deep space software upgrade for Hera’s asteroid visit ESA · 8 Jul 2026 Operating across 140 million km of space, the control team for ESA’s Hera mission have succeeded in upgrading the software running it, leaving the spacecraft ready to explore the distant Dimorphos and Didymos asteroids t...
- Venus Aerospace raises $91 million to scale rocket engine technology SpaceNews · 8 Jul 2026 Funding will support development and production of the company’s rotating detonation rocket engine
- Progress at the Cape: New Launch Pads rise for Stoke, Relativity NASASpaceflight · 8 Jul 2026 The Space Coast’s rejuvination continues apace, with multiple launch providers advancing new facilities at Cape…