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- OHB Joins Dassault Aviation’s VORTEX Spaceplane Initiative European Spaceflight · 12 May 2026 German space technology company OHB has agreed to develop the service module for Dassault Aviation’s VORTEX-S spaceplane, which the companies plan to pitch to the European Space Agency (ESA). During the Paris Air Show in...
- Australia’s Cloudy Beauty NASA · 12 May 2026 Valley fog gathered in the Victorian Alps while an arch-shaped cloud drifted across Port Phillip Bay.
- Curiosity Blog, Sols 4886-4892: Ingenuity and Perseverance, Curiosity Style NASA · 12 May 2026 Written by Michelle Minitti, MAHLI Deputy Principal Investigator Earth planning date: Friday, May 8, 2026 While we know the monikers Ingenuity and Perseverance are attached to our sister helicopter and rover on the Mars...
- NASA’s Curiosity Takes Close Look at Rock That Got Stuck on Drill NASA · 12 May 2026 Description NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover used its Mast Camera, or Mastcam, to capture this view of a rock nicknamed “Atacama” on May 6, 2026, the 4,877th Martian day, or sol, of the mission. The rock had gotten stuck to t...
- May 2026 Satellite Puzzler NASA · 11 May 2026 Your challenge is to tell us the location of the satellite image and why it is interesting.
- Launch Preview: SpaceX and Chinese missions fill busy launch manifest NASASpaceflight · 11 May 2026 The week of May 11 brings nine launches across the United States and China, spanning…
- Nicholas Houghton: Engineering Crew Safety for NASA’s Artemis Missions NASA · 11 May 2026 Nicholas Houghton always dreamed of working at NASA and one day becoming an astronaut. Today, he helps design systems that keep crews safe during missions aboard NASA’s Orion spacecraft, including the successful Artemis...
- Live coverage: SpaceX to launch intelligence-gathering satellites for the National Reconnaissance Office Spaceflight Now · 11 May 2026 The NROL-72 mission will be the 13th to date supporting what the NRO calls its “proliferated architecture” satellite constellation. Liftoff of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket from pad 4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base is schedu...
- NASA Invites Media to Annual Lunabotics Robotics Competition NASA · 11 May 2026 NASA will hold its 2026 Lunabotics Challenge Tuesday, May 19, to Thursday, May 21, at the Astronauts Memorial Foundation’s Center for Space Education at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida. Links to view...
- Joint Earth Observation Mission Quality Assessment Framework – Optical Guidelines Documents Released NASA · 11 May 2026 The Optical Guidelines document provides standardized, transparent, and repeatable process for assessing the quality of optical data from commercial Earth Observation missions.
- Hubble Survey Sets Up Roman’s Future Look Near Milky Way’s Center NASA · 11 May 2026 The Milky Way’s galactic bulge, the bulbous region that surrounds the galactic center, contains a dense collection of stars, planets, and other free-floating objects. This region has been studied for decades with numerou...
- NASA Astronaut Jessica Meir NASA · 11 May 2026 NASA Astronaut Jessica Meir sits for a portrait at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston on Sept. 23, 2025. This photo was chosen as one of the 2025 NASA Photographer of the Year finalists. Meir launched on NASA’s Space...
- With Skyroot at the head of the class, India's private space industry seeks to take off Ars Technica · 11 May 2026 "We wanted to get to an orbital launch vehicle in a few years."
- Italy Completes Air-Launched Rocket Demonstrator Test European Spaceflight · 11 May 2026 An Italian consortium has successfully completed a suborbital demonstration of an air-launched rocket system. The project, which utilised a Dornier Alpha Jet aircraft and T4i’s HAX25 sounding rocket equipped with avionic...
- What’s Happening in Space Policy May 9-16, 2026 SpacePolicyOnline.com · 10 May 2026 Here is SpacePolicyOnline.com’s list of space policy events for the week of May 9-16, 2026 and any insight we can offer about them. The House and Senate are in session
- Rescue mission for NASA’s $500 million space telescope passes key testing milestone Spaceflight Now · 8 May 2026 Katalyst Space Technologies’ Link spacecraft is set to head to orbit in June 2026 onboard Northrop Grumman’s Pegasus XL air-launched rocket. NASA awarded Katalyst a $30 million contract for the mission in September 2025.
- NASA’s SpaceX 34th Commercial Resupply Mission Overview NASA · 8 May 2026 NASA and SpaceX are targeting a mid-May launch to deliver scientific investigations, supplies, and equipment to the International Space Station. Loaded with about 6,500 pounds of supplies, the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft wi...
- Booster 19 completes Static Fire as Ship 39 prepares for rollout NASASpaceflight · 8 May 2026 Following Booster 19’s successful full-duration, full-thrust 33-engine static fire on May 7, 2026, its partner…
- Brian Hughes Returns to NASA in Charge of Kennedy and Wallops Launch Operations SpacePolicyOnline.com · 8 May 2026 Brian Hughes, who headed the Florida arm of President Trump’s 2024 campaign and served as NASA Chief of Staff for several months last year, is returning to the agency to
- NASA’s Psyche Mission Captures Mars During Gravity Assist Approach NASA · 8 May 2026 Description This colorized image of Mars was captured by NASA’s Psyche mission on May 3, 2026, about 3 million miles (4.8 million kilometers) from the planet. The spacecraft is approaching the planet for a gravity assist...
- I Am Artemis: Anton Kiriwas NASA · 8 May 2026 Listen to this audio excerpt from Anton Kiriwas, senior technical integration manager for NASA’s Exploration Ground Systems Program: When Anton Kiriwas first spotted an image of the Moon and Mars hanging over a job fair...
- NASA, Industry Advance High Performance Spaceflight Computing NASA · 8 May 2026 For decades, NASA has advanced on-board spacecraft computer processors that coordinate and execute the functions needed to support mission success. Space computing originated in the 1960s with the Apollo Guidance Compute...
- Glowing Views from the Space Station NASA · 8 May 2026 NASA astronaut Chris Williams captured the Milky Way rising above Earth’s atmospheric glow on April 13, 2026, while aboard a SpaceX Dragon docked to the International Space Station. This atmospheric glow is also called a...
- NASA Names Brian Hughes to Launch Operations Role NASA · 8 May 2026 NASA announced Friday that Brian Hughes will return to the agency as senior director of launch operations, based at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. In this role, Hughes will provide enterprise-level leaders...
- NASA Fuel Cell Tests Pave Way for Energy Storage on Moon NASA · 8 May 2026 With a small blue crane, four researchers hoist a cylindrical fuel cell, which looks like a stack of flattened silver and gold soda cans bundled together, into the air and lower it into a rectangular cart on wheels. A ta...
- The US military just released a bunch of UAP files, but there's no there there Ars Technica · 8 May 2026 Here at Ars Technica, we do not preclude the possibility that aliens have visited Earth.
- Week in images: 04-08 May 2026 ESA · 8 May 2026 Week in images: 04-08 May 2026
- Rocket Report: Flying past peak Falcon 9; Rocket Lab revenue soars Ars Technica · 8 May 2026 "The deciding factor was what we felt like was the team’s impact to humanity."
- ESA Begins Developing Replacements for NASA’s Contributions to LISA European Spaceflight · 8 May 2026 The European Space Agency has begun mitigation efforts for key elements of its LISA mission after a White House budget proposal sought, for the second year running, to eliminate most of NASA’s planned support. One of the...
- Earth from Space: Greenland's changing ice ESA · 8 May 2026 From the ESA Blogs.
- Tracy Arm’s Post-Tsunami Landscape NASA · 8 May 2026 A landslide-triggered tsunami stripped vegetation from the shore of the glacial fjord in summer 2025.
- Meet the Fleet: NASA Armstrong Continues Legacy of Flight Research NASA · 7 May 2026 NASA’s home for experimental flight is welcoming more flyers to its already high-performing fleet as it continues to support science and aeronautics test missions – continuing the legacy of pioneers like Neil Armstrong....
- Rocket Lab announces five-launch Neutron deal as it continues aiming for late 2026 debut Spaceflight Now · 7 May 2026 The company pivoted to a Neutron rocket launch debut no earlier than the fourth quarter of 2026 following a first stage tank test failure earlier this year. The first flight of Neutron won’t be reusable, but aims to reco...
- China prepares cargo, crew, and deep space missions, as commercial sector steps towards reusability NASASpaceflight · 7 May 2026 China is preparing to launch both cargo and crew missions to its Tiangong space station,…
- NASA Welcomes Paraguay as 67th Artemis Accords Signatory NASA · 7 May 2026 The Republic of Paraguay signed the Artemis Accords on Thursday during a ceremony in Asunción, becoming the latest nation to commit to the shared principles guiding civil space exploration. “Today, I am proud to welcome...
- NASA Sends Mars Helicopter Blades Beyond Mach 1 NASA · 7 May 2026 Description Engineer Fernando Mier-Hicks inspects a test stand used to investigate the performance of next-generation Mars helicopter rotor blades at high speeds inside the 25-Foot Space Simulator at NASA’s Jet Propulsio...
- NASA’s Next-Gen Mars Helicopter Rotors Are Moving Fast NASA · 7 May 2026 Description Engineer Jaakko Karras inspects a next-generation Mars helicopter rotor blade prior to supersonic speed testing in the 25-Foot Space Simulator at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California in Nov...
- NASA Pushes Next-Gen Mars Helicopter Rotor Blades Past Mach 1 NASA · 7 May 2026 The rotor blades that will carry NASA’s next-generation helicopters to new Martian heights broke the sound barrier during March tests at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California. Data from the tests, which...
- Industry Moon Lander Training Cabin Lands at NASA for Artemis NASA · 7 May 2026 A full-scale mock-up of a crew cabin for a future industry lunar lander for NASA’s Artemis program now is operational for training and testing. The agency and its industry partners will use Blue Origin’s Blue Moon Mark 2...
- ESA and JAXA team up on planetary defence, Ramses mission to asteroid Apophis ESA · 7 May 2026 The European Space Agency (ESA) and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) have signed a Memorandum of Cooperation to deepen collaboration in planetary defence, alongside a dedicated agreement for collaboration on...