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July 27, 2026
The Madison Square Park Conservancy unveiled its moon tree at a smoky birthday party.
The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us to the south-western tip of Australia, in the Goldfields–Esperance region of Western Australia, with an image from June 2026.
Representing the United Kingdom, Abbeyfield School in Chippenham, have come second at the International Youth Rocketry Champions. The school secured its place in the final after beating 126 schools…
LINK, Katalyst's autonomous rescue spacecraft, has now closed to within 10–30 km of Swift. The docking manoeuvre is expected in the coming days. The post 27 July 2026 – Rendezvous of…
Startup companies which have come up with brilliant ideas for using space will join the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Industry Space Days (ISD) event on 16–17 September at ESA-ESTEC in the…
Startup companies that have developed innovative ideas for the use of space will take part in the European Space Agency's (ESA) Industry Space Days (ISD) on 16 and 17 September…
To mark the launch of the new generation of European heavy launchers, La Poste, the French postal service, has issued a series of eight collectible stamps depicting Ariane 6…
To mark Europe’s newest generation heavy‑lift launcher, La Poste, France’s national postal service, has issued a collector set of eight stamps featuring Ariane 6, paying tribute to Europe’s…
Written by Karolina Sarna Why has commercial Earth Observation remained a project business rather than becoming a scalable product market? In this Inside EO analysis, Karolina Sarna explores the…
The European Space Agency (ESA) has confirmed that its deep space station in Cebreros, in Avila, has not suffered damage following the forest fires in the vicinity of the..
The European Space Agency Director General Josef Aschbacher announced on 26 July that the agency had cleared its Cebreros deep-space ground station in Spain to return to service after inspections…
American astronaut Chris Williams and Russian cosmonauts Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and Sergei Mikaev landed safely on the Kazakh steppe on July 26 at 12:27 p.m. (…
After 3,856 orbits and more than 102 million miles, Chris Williams returned from a mission advancing science and preparing humanity for the Moon and Mars. NASA astronaut Chris Williams returned to…
ESA has launched a new call for proposals in collaboration with the UK Space Agency, through the ESA InCubed program. This comes as more than £2.5 million were awarded to five projects that use…
Voyager Technologies has renewed its partnership with Reditus Space to deliver end-to-end microgravity mission services aboard the latter's ENOS reusable reentry vehicle. Under the partnership…
The Minister of Science, Innovation and Universities, Diana Morant, visited last Friday, in the Scientific Park of the Miguel Hernández University of Elche, the EMXYS facilities, where..
After completing an eight-month scientific mission on board the International Space Station (ISS), the cosmonauts of Roscosmos Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and Sergey Mikayev and the Nasa astronaut..
Antonio Franchi, responsible for the ESA programme that is part of the project, said that it will help to protect communications from threats such as signal supplanting..
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SpaceX flew the 13th test flight of its Starship rocket Friday evening, ending with the first intact Starship put in the water. The post Starship Sticks the Water Landing on Flight 13 appeared first…
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July 26, 2026
Following two flybys of Jupiter’s innermost Galilean moon Io, teams using data from NASA’s Juno… The post Juno reveals surprising subsurface tempertures at Io, remarkably smooth surface appeared…
(Updated) Ship 40 is drifting on the water's surface far longer than expected. Didn't Booster 20 only run into problems during the landing burn? A portal post by the Raumfahrer.net editor…
Here is SpacePolicyOnline.com’s list of space policy events for the week of July 26-August 1, 2026 and any insight we can offer about them. The Senate is in session this […]
Exploring the final mission of the iconic Blackbird.
A new dual spacecraft mission has been green-lighted to augment operations at the Moon, including the build-up of an Artemis Moon Base. As operations at the Moon scale in quantity, foundational…
NASA has confirmed that the forest fire that has affected the environment of the Madrid Deep Space Communications Complex (MDSCC), located in the town of Robledo de Chavela..
