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July 24, 2026
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Boeing and GM announced the signing of a final agreement for the sale of HRL Laboratories, LLC, a 50% joint venture between Boeing and GM, to IBM. HRL offers innovative technologies for the..
Utah’s new solar power and battery storage facility is among the largest in the region.
Hydra Space, the leading Spanish company in space access solutions, satellite connectivity and the design and launch of ultra-compact nanosatellites, is developing two projects with..
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Gray has stated that the fact that this occurs near the visible edge of the Moon is an advantage; it is possible that the flash may be seen when the rocket or rocks are crashed from the crater..
Today the Department of Commerce took a step towards helping companies obtain government certification to conduct novel activities in space. Mutiple Congresses and administrations have failed to…
Written by Lucy Thompson, Senior Research Scientist, University of New Brunswick, Canada Earth planning date: Friday, July 27, 2026 As an APXS uplink lead and strategic planner, I have the privilege…
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July 23, 2026
Sikorsky, a company of Lockheed Martin, and Safran Helicopter Engines have signed an agreement to jointly explore areas of cooperation on vertical take-off and landing platforms..
Starship Test Flight 13 was scrubbed this evening around 22:00 CEST due to poor weather conditions and postponed again to 25 July 2026 at 0:45 CEST. The post 23 July 2026 –…
More than two dozen major NASA projects say they have been affected by the loss of a fifth of NASA’s civil servant workforce in the last year. The post NASA programs feel effects of workforce…
WARSAW, Poland — The Polish government has agreed to invest around $745 million in the development of the planned IRIS² multi-orbit satellite internet constellation with the European Union. The…
NASA's SunRISE mission has been assigned a new launch vehicle: It will now be delivered to orbit by a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket rather than a United Launch Alliance Vulcan Centaur.
'We've seen a lot of strange new worlds, but we’ll never see something like this again'
Scientists say the sun has a little more silver than we thought.
A Delta Air Lines pilot was warned about a potential 'rocket launcher' near LaGuardia Airport, but the threat was later deemed non-credible.
SAN FRANCISCO – Space startup veteran Mark Matossian has joined forces with a software engineer and a best-selling author to establish Whipsmart Ventures, a venture capital fund focused on space […]…
Africa’s first space exploration mission is the Bounced African Low Lunar Sphere, or BALLS for short. It is to be flown on China’s Chang’e-8 Moon lander mission in 2029. The Africa2Moon project…
The flight was delayed another day as Tropical Storm Bertha was expected to make landfall in Texas on Thursday. Liftoff of the Starship Flight 13 mission is scheduled during a 90-minute window that…
Continuing agency efforts to bring space closer to home, NASA+ is heading to more streaming platforms. On Thursday, NASA announced its programming is on Fire TV Channels. Fire TV customers can…
Prior moon rock samples, including from Apollo, seem heavily influenced by one impact. The farside samples tweak the story.
The latest edition of the Canon EOS R6 III adds 8 MP in resolution compared to the EOS R6 II, a CFexpress card slot and improved low-light autofocusing capability but do these upgrades actually…
Keith’s note: Yesterday Jared Isaacman spoke to the Republican Study Committee. He said does not want more money. And of course Congress is already pushing back hard on the FY […] The post Isaacman…
Scientists have identified an accelerator that produces the highest-energy protons in our galaxy, a finding that could clarify the nature of the fast-moving particles filling the space between…
Keith’s note: GAO issued NASA: Assessments of Major Projects. Artemis are doing better but personnel layoffs and budget cuts pose a threat. What GAO Found Most of the National Aeronautics […] The…
"We have to do what we can to ensure that the country makes it through the challenges that we're dealing with here, and that is the message that we're going to be taking to colleges and universities."
LA PLATA, Maryland — The German government, whose skepticism about Europe’s Iris2 multi-orbit secure connectivity project… The post French-German ministers’ meeting lauds Iris2 as ‘Europe’s digital…
Barnard’s Star hosts four hostile small planets whose unusual chemistry and orbital rhythm reveal how compact planetary systems can form and survive. Just under six light-years from Earth, Barnard’s…
Crews at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans transport the 130-foot-tall liquid hydrogen tank out of a production cell inside the main factory building into a detached test building on a…
Crews at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans transport the 130-foot-tall Artemis IV liquid hydrogen tank out of a production cell inside the main factory building into a detached test…
NASA MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution) mission scientists have uncovered a key puzzle piece in understanding certain types of auroras on Mars, finding that they form in a similar way to…
In this episode, David Ariosto speaks with Varda CEO Will Bruey at the Ascend conference. They discuss how Varda hopes to play a role bridging medicine and low Earth orbit […] The post Will Bruey on…
