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July 18, 2026
On Episode 219 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik discuss the space headlines for the past few weeks.
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Starlink is now live in the Seychelles, with SpaceX confirming through its official channels that the service is active and […] The post Starlink Goes Live in Seychelles appeared first on Space in…
NASA and Draper have terminated plans for a lunar lander mission after significant delays in development of the spacecraft. The post NASA terminates Draper lunar lander mission appeared first on…
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July 17, 2026
In April 2026, NASA’s Office of the Chief Health and Medical Officer (OCHMO) initiated a working group to review updated VTE case information, additional data gathered revealing altered blood flow…
Scientists using NASA’s IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer) directly measured the magnetic fields of PSR J1101−6101, a pulsar located within what is often referred to as the “Lighthouse”…
Grasshopper-like tests could begin in 2028.
“Space is no longer just a domain of exploration; it’s a warfighting domain, and what we build matters for American leadership in that domain.” – Dan Jablonsky, CEO of Sierra Space Dan Jablonsky…
SpaceX has announced a new target date for the thirteenth test flight of Starship: Monday, July 20, with the launch window opening at 6:45 p.m ET/5:45 p.m. CT. This is the first rescheduling attempt…
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NASA’s next flagship orbital observatory will reshape what we know about planets throughout the galaxy.
Ever since the first Integrated Flight Test in April 2023, every flight of the super-heavy, fully reusable launch vehicle SpaceX is developing at Starbase, in southeastern Texas, has been…
SpaceX’s IPO marks the moment the space dream became a mainstream capital markets story. For decades, it has sold a vision of interplanetary civilization on behalf of the wider space […] The post…
This has forced SpaceX to download methane and liquid oxygen from the rocket, and finally postpone the test flight. Starship's 13 flight, the second in its V3 configuration, included several..
Insider Brief For a non-US propulsion or upstream space manufacturing company, the United States is simultaneously the most valuable market to enter and the most expensive to enter badly. It…
Serbia is the latest nation to sign the Artemis Accords, joining the U.S.-led effort more than two years after signing on to China’s lunar base project. The post Serbia signs the Artemis Accords…
SpaceX’s first attempt to launch Starship on its 13th test flight today didn’t go as planned. At the moment of startup, some of the 33 engines on Starship’s first stage […]
SpaceX aborted the launch of its latest Starship test flight July 16 when some of the vehicle’s engines failed to ignite. The post SpaceX aborts Starship Flight 13 launch attempt appeared first on…
"Now offloading propellant. Next launch attempt hopefully in a few days."
July 16, 2026
SpaceX aborted Flight 13 of its giant Starship rocket at the last second on Thursday (July 16). The company is now targeting July 23 for the liftoff.
The company didn't immediately say what went wrong. SpaceX's stock plunged more than 4% in after-hours trading before paring losses.
NASA has selected SpaceX to deliver laser communications capabilities for next year’s Artemis III mission, enabling the agency to provide a front row seat for viewers from the Orion spacecraft as…
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With the launch of 21 York Space Systems satellites, the Space Development Agency has now placed half of its planned Tranche 1 Transport Layer constellation in orbit The post SpaceX launches 21…
Evidence for landslides down steep crater walls on Pluto have been found in imagery from NASA's New Horizons mission.
Building U.S. space-based moving target indication systems and the capability to disrupt Chinese military space systems is a top deterrence priority for U.S. Space Force Lt. Gen. Douglas Schiess, he…
SpaceX has stacked the two stages of its giant Starship rocket ahead of the Flight 13 test launch, which is scheduled to occur on Thursday evening (July 23).
SpaceX also wants to test the improvements it has incorporated into the thermal shield, such as the installation of losets in the metal part of Starship's rear flaps, modified versions of the..
On board, NASA astronaut Anil Menon along with the cosmonauts of Roscosmos Pyotr Dubrov and Anna Kikina, on a mission whose launch and coupling to the station were..
Canadian wildfires sent plumes of smoke streaming over Ontario, Quebec, and parts of the U.S. Midwest and Northeast.
After pushing hard for a launch on July 16 at 5:45 pm CDT, and attempting… The post Starship Flight 13: Booster 20 Aborts During Ignition appeared first on NASASpaceFlight.com .
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