A leading Democratic member of the House Science Committee criticized the proposed steep cuts in NASA’s fiscal year 2026 budget proposal. The post Whitesides says budget proposal shows the administration does not value NASA science appeared first on SpaceNews.
June 11, 2025
Key Points: Scientists analyzing data from NASA’s CODEX (Coronal Diagnostic Experiment) investigation have successfully evaluated the instrument’s first images, revealing the speed and temperature of material flowing out from the Sun. These images, shared at a press event Tuesday at the American Astronomical Society meeting in Anchorage, Alaska, illustrate the Sun’s outer atmosphere, or corona, […]
June 10, 2025
Next month, ASCEND 2025 kicks off in Las Vegas for the fifth annual event. AIAA’s on-ramp-to-space gathering prides itself on its interdisciplinary focus: attendees will include leaders in commercial and […] The post AIAA’s Uniquely Interdisciplinary Space Conference—ASCEND—Poised for a Memorable Vegas Event appeared first on SpaceNews.
June 10, 2025
Rep. Jeff Crank (R-Colo.), who serves on the House Armed Services Committee, said a draft defense appropriations bill unveiled June 9 signals bipartisan concerns that the U.S. is underinvesting in space capabilities. The post Lawmakers find common ground on space but Golden Dome sparks divide appeared first on SpaceNews.
June 10, 2025
Europe has unconditionally approved SES’ plan to buy rival satellite operator Intelsat, leaving the United States as the final major regulatory hurdle in the way of the $4 billion transaction. The post Europe clears SES-Intelsat deal without conditions appeared first on SpaceNews.
June 10, 2025
SpaceX will launch Axiom Space’s fourth private crewed mission to the International Space Station (ISS)… The post Launch Roundup: ULA to launch Kuiper’s second batch of satellites, SpaceX to launch Axiom crew to ISS appeared first on NASASpaceFlight.com.
June 10, 2025
NASA astronaut Franklin Chang-Diaz works with a grapple fixture during a June 2002 spacewalk outside of the International Space Station. He was partnered with CNES (Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales) astronaut Philippe Perrin for the spacewalk – one of three that occurred during the STS-111 mission. Chang-Diaz was part of NASA’s ninth class of astronaut candidates. […]
June 10, 2025
A planetary system described as abnormal, chaotic, and strange by researchers has come into clearer view with NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. Using Webb’s NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera), researchers have successfully imaged one of two known planets surrounding the star 14 Herculis, located 60 light-years away from Earth in our own Milky Way galaxy. The exoplanet, […]
June 10, 2025
The introduction of C213 comes years after the other four Cargo Dragon spacecraft currently in service. Ax-4 will be the third human spaceflight mission for SpaceX in 2025.
June 10, 2025
Listen to this audio excerpt from Ernesto Garcia, Rayotech Scientific engineering manager: My name is Ernesto Garcia, and I am an engineering manager at Rayotech Scientific in San Diego, in charge of fabricating the windowpanes for the Orion spacecraft. Fabricating Orion’s windowpanes entails a very strict manufacturing process. It involves first starting from a giant […]
June 10, 2025
Washington, D.C. – June 6, 2025 — SpaceNews proudly supported ispace-U.S. and the Commercial Space Federation to host a live lunar landing watch party for the Hakuto-R Mission 2. The […] The post SpaceNews successfully launches new business offering, hosts first custom event appeared first on SpaceNews.
June 10, 2025
High over the Mojave Desert, two NASA F-15 research jets made a series of flights throughout May to validate tools designed to measure and record the shock waves that will be produced by the agency’s X-59 quiet supersonic experimental aircraft. The F-15s, carrying the recording tools, flew faster than the speed of sound, matching the […]
June 10, 2025
"It creates a more unstable, shaky political environment on Earth, not just in space."
June 10, 2025
The ISS is aging rapidly, and a replacement is desperately needed. As America’s posture in low Earth orbit threatens to slip away, where are its commercial stations in 2025?
June 10, 2025
Plano, Texas – Apogee Semiconductor, a leading provider of advanced technologies for space and extreme environments, today announced its partnership with ALTER Technology, a global provider and added value reseller […] The post Apogee Semiconductor Partners with ALTER Technology and doEEEt.com to Expand Distribution of Space and Defense-Grade Technologies appeared first on SpaceNews.
June 10, 2025
At NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, the next generation of lunar explorers and engineers are already hard at work. Some started with sketchbooks and others worked with computer-aided design files, but all had a vision of how design could thrive in extreme environments.Thanks to NASA’s Student Design Challenge, Spacesuit User Interface Technologies for Students […]
June 10, 2025
Quantum Space has raised $40 million to advance development of its Ranger spacecraft with a new focus on national security applications. The post Quantum Space raises $40 million appeared first on SpaceNews.
June 10, 2025
Two Chinese Shijian satellites appear to be maneuvering towards a rendezvous and docking in geostationary orbit, with U.S. surveillance spacecraft also in the vicinity. The post Chinese spacecraft prepare for orbital refueling test as US surveillance sats lurk nearby appeared first on SpaceNews.
June 10, 2025
SAN FRANCISCO – Xplore Inc. unveiled hyperspectral imagery from XCUBE-1, the initial satellite in the Bellevue, Washington, startup’s remote-sensing constellation. Since XCUBE-1 was launched in December, Xplore has “built the […] The post Xplore reveals hyperspectral imagery from first satellite appeared first on SpaceNews.
June 10, 2025
SpaceX will be attempting to land its 460th booster in the midst of the Starlink 12-24 mission. Teams are targeting liftoff from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at 9:05 a.m. EDT (1305 UTC).
June 10, 2025
Keith Barr was born only months before the historic Apollo 11 landing in 1969. While he was too young to witness that giant leap for mankind, the moment sparked a lifelong fascination that set him on a path to design technology that will carry astronauts farther into space than ever before. Today, Barr serves as […]
June 10, 2025
SAN FRANCISCO – Quebec’s government announced an award of $10 million Canadian dollars ($7.3 million) to fund development of Canadian rocket startup Reaction Dynamics’ propulsion system. The funding will enable […] The post Quebec backs Canadian launch startup Reaction Dynamics appeared first on SpaceNews.
June 9, 2025
The Trump administration has released new rules for distributing $42.5 billion in U.S. rural broadband funding, easing restrictions on Starlink and other satellite providers competing for support under the Biden-era program. The post US rural broadband shift opens door wider for Starlink appeared first on SpaceNews.
June 9, 2025
An Italian commercial launch logistics company has announced that it has received approval to conduct small-scale engine tests at the Salto di Quirra military installation on the island of Sardinia. The company hopes this testing will mark the first step toward being authorised to conduct commercial suborbital launches from the facility as early as 2026. […] The post OLM Plans to Offer Commercial Launch Services from Sardinia appeared first on European Spaceflight.
June 9, 2025
The mission will the fifth flight to space for Peggy Whitson, the American with the most spaceflight experience in history. SpaceX and Axiom Space are targeting liftoff from pad 39A on Wednesday, June 11, at 8 a.m. EDT (1200 UTC), weather permitting.
June 9, 2025
A black hole has blasted out a surprisingly powerful jet in the distant universe, according to a new study from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and discussed in our latest press release. This jet exists early enough in the cosmos that it is being illuminated by the leftover glow from the big bang itself. Astronomers used […]
June 9, 2025
We need to produce a lot of second stages.
June 9, 2025
SpaceX, along with Axiom Space, is ready to launch the fourth private Dragon mission to… The post Axiom-4 crew ready for science, flight aboard new Dragon capsule to ISS appeared first on NASASpaceFlight.com.
June 9, 2025
On May 19, 2025, Landsat 9 captured this image of the Serra de Caldas in the state of Goiás, Brazil. The oval plateau is covered by a biologically rich savanna and grassland ecosystem called Cerrado. The Cerrado covers about one-fifth of Brazil’s land area and represents the second-largest biome in South America behind the Amazon. These lands […]
June 9, 2025
The panel moved forward with its own defense spending blueprint as the Trump administration has yet to submit a detailed defense budget The post House appropriators unveil defense bill, boost Space Force funding appeared first on SpaceNews.
June 9, 2025
Introduction Tropical cyclones represent a danger to life, property, and the economies of communities. Researchers who study tropical cyclones have focused on remote observations using space-based platforms to image these storms, inform forecasts, better predict landfall, and improve understanding of storm dynamics and precipitation evolution – see Figure 1. The tropical cyclone community has leveraged […]
June 9, 2025
Consisting of 99% air, aerogel is the world’s lightest solid. This unique material has found purpose in several forms — from NASA missions to high fashion. Driven by the desire to create a 3D cloud, Greek artist, Ioannis Michaloudis, learned to use aerogel as an artistic medium. His journey spanning more than 25 years took […]
June 9, 2025
Video Producer – Goddard Space Flight Center What sparked your interest in video production, and what drew you to NASA? Ever since I saw “Star Wars” at nine years old, I knew I wanted to make movies. I would make little stop action videos with my action figures. How did you land this role at […]
June 9, 2025
When reporters revisit President John F. Kennedy’s address to a joint session of Congress in 1961, it is often framed as a bold moment of promises made — and ultimately […] The post A reinvigorated push for nuclear power in space appeared first on SpaceNews.
June 9, 2025
To make this plan a reality, Interlune needs larger lunar landers to come online.
June 9, 2025
Chinese technologies are without question a double-edged sword. From DeepSeek AI to Huawei smartphones, DJI drones and industrial port cranes, many of these tools raise valid concerns about surveillance, information […] The post Is China’s BeiDou a weapon of war? appeared first on SpaceNews.
June 9, 2025
Spanish startup Arkadia Space has successfully tested in orbit a thruster it has developed that uses hydrogen peroxide as propellant. The post Arkadia Space tests its first hydrogen peroxide thruster in orbit appeared first on SpaceNews.
June 9, 2025
ESA project astronaut Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski is heading to the International Space Station on his first mission as part of Axiom Mission 4 (Ax-4). He is the second ESA project astronaut from a new generation of Europeans to fly on a commercial human spaceflight mission with Axiom Space.
June 9, 2025
From the ESA Blogs.
June 9, 2025
A year after the launch of a flawed crewed test flight Starliner, NASA has yet to determine the next mission for the spacecraft with mixed signals about the vehicle’s future. The post Starliner future plans still in limbo appeared first on SpaceNews.
June 8, 2025
