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July 8, 2026
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (July 8, 2026) – Redwire Corporation (NYSE: RDW), a global leader in aerospace and defense technology solutions, announced today it has appointed pioneering industry leaders Paul…
July 7, 2026
Following its longest hibernation period ever of nearly a year, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has emerged in good health and is ready to begin transmitting science data gathered in the distant…
The Artemis II crew participates in the dedication of the Apollo 14 Moon tree at the Lunar Receiving Park at NASA's Johnson Space Center. This tree is a second-generation Apollo Moon tree of the…
July 6, 2026
The post Ursa Major Successfully Completes SRM Manufacturing Pathfinder Program with U.S. Navy and OSC appeared first on Ursa Major .
SpaceX launched a series of 81 payloads to a Sun-synchronous Earth orbit over a roughly 2.5-hour-long deployment period. Liftoff from pad 4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base happened at 12:12 a.m. PDT…
NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman leads a flyover featuring his personally owned F-5 Tiger during the Great American State Fair on July 4, 2026, on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.
In new images from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope to celebrate its fourth science anniversary, a familiar galaxy transforms into something far richer, and far more complex, than ever…
As NASA prepares for a sustained human presence on the Moon, missions will increasingly require spacecraft that can navigate and communicate without a direct connection to Earth. NASA’s Cislunar…
SpaceX's Starship is one of the two lunar landers being developed for landing NASA astronauts on the Moon. Ethan Hicks argues that Starship's origins as a Mars vehicle create a "tax" on its use as a…
July 2, 2026
True Anomaly and Rocket Lab are performing Top Gun-style satellite fly-bys for the U.S. military.
These include engine elements for space transport, navigation systems, landing systems, space assembly and manufacturing and energy management. In the..
July 1, 2026
Central to U.S. Space Force efforts are a transition from traditional fitness models to Holistic Health Approach, an integrated and preventative approach that prioritizes the enduring health…
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A Katalyst engineer runs tests on LINK while the satellite is inside the Pegasus XL rocket attached to the Stargazer aircraft at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility on the evening of Tuesday, June 16…
A private rocket mission aims to boost NASA’s Swift telescope before its orbit decays, extending its hunt for gamma-ray bursts.
In April 2024, ESA awarded Thales Alenia Space a €522 million contract to replace most Russian hardware, including the new downhill platform. In May of..
NASA is preparing to take humanity back to the satellite; this time to establish a permanent human presence at the southern lunar pole. This Tuesday, June 30, NASA has introduced..
For decades, lunar exploration was defined by astronauts, rovers, and orbiters. But as NASA pushes deeper into the Artemis era, a new class of robotic explorer is quietly emerging, one that could…
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June 30, 2026
The American space company Rocket Lab has announced an agreement for the purchase of Iridium Communications, a satellite communications provider, in an operation that combines..
"We don't want the United States to give in its soft power in space to China, and we are part of the answer to that." A bet for artificial intelligence To speed up the design and engineering of..
June 29, 2026
However, NASA decided to change strategy and assign a dedicated mission to an Electron rocket. Although the agency has not detailed the exact reason for the change, the TSIS-2 project was dragging..