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July 20, 2026
The space industrial base is undergoing major changes with new players and new investment. Bharath Gopalaswamy and Daniel Dant argue that those companies would also benefit from reforms on how the…
Among the new exhibits in the National Air and Space Museum is a half-scale model of a formerly top-secret signals intelligence satellite from the Cold War known as FARRAH. Dwayne Day discusses the…
"Once Upon a Time in Space" is a documentary series on human spaceflight airing on PBS. Emily Carney interviews filmmaker James Bluemel about the series and his approach to telling the stories from…
In the new images, the Red Planet 'grows' as the probe approaches, progressively filling its field of view
HELSINKI — A six-month-old Chinese startup aiming to use artificial intelligence to compress rocket engine development cycles has raised $29.5 million in angel funding. LegendSpace, full name Linjie…
Expanded campus will create new high-tech jobs and increase advanced manufacturing capacity FARNBOROUGH, England – (July 20, 2026) – Redwire Corporation (NYSE: RDW), together with the State of…
The Airbus workers' assemblies of the work centres of Getafe, Illescas, Albacete, San Pablo, Tablada and Cadiz on strike have shown their rejection of the proposal made last..
A bright Saturn's ring of satellites will encircle Earth if plans to launch a million orbiting data centers and tens of thousands of space mirrors will come to pass.
SpaceX, who announced last weekend his intention to make another attempt on Monday to launch his Starship rocket, after last week's suspension, by detecting an incidence..
Video: 00:19:14 The four Artemis II astronauts visited ESTEC, ESA’s technical centre in the Netherlands, on 13 July as the first stop in a series of post-flight visits to the European teams that…
UARX Space, the Galician space technology company, has presented the first orbital transfer vehicle fully developed in Spain, Ossie (acronym in English of Solutions..
British businesses, universities and researchers will receive access to more than £62 million in government funding to develop homegrown space technologies, boosting the UK’s national resilience and…
Press Release N° 35–2026 Media representatives are invited to express their interest in attending the media programme at Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana for the launch of the FLEX and Copernicus…
Press Release No. 35–2026 This call for expressions of interest was updated on 30 July and now includes the announcement of the launch date of 14 September. Media professionals are invited to…
Press Release No. 35-2026 Media representatives are invited to express their interest in participating in the media programme to take place in the European Space Port..
Press Release No. 35-2026 Media representatives are invited to register their interest in attending the press program organized at Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana on the occasion of the…
The author of space opera Slow Gods digs into the details of exploring what happens when a planet is about to be destroyed by the collapse of a binary star system
The Nasa researchers recently submitted a new wing design, with a thin, elongated appearance, with a light structure, to a series of rigorous tests to determine its limits..
From 22-26 June, 30 university students from Europe and Canada came together at the European Space Agency (ESA) Academy’s Training and Learning Facility in Belgium to explore the fundamentals of…
According to the current schedule, the launch of Starship Flight 13 is now set for Friday, 24 July 2026, at 0:45 CEST. The post 20 July 2026 – Starship Test Flight 13 launch postponed to…
Spacex plans to make another attempt to launch his Starship rocket on Monday, after last week's suspension, by detecting an incidence during the ignition sequence of..
Press Release N° 35–2026. This call for interest was updated on 30 July following the announcement of the launch date, set for 14 September. Media representatives are invited…
July 19, 2026
"On the first attempt, reaching orbit, I never thought it was possible."
ZeroAvia and Safran have announced the start of a collaboration focused on the development of aeronautical propulsion technologies of hydrogeno-electric. The agreement combines ZeroAvia's experience..
by Rick Mulheirn, FBIS The talk. Dan Tani was the guest speaker at The Armchair Astronaut’s latest Space Social, on a very hot and sweaty July 11th. Thank goodness for air conditioning! Exhibitors…
Here is SpacePolicyOnline.com’s list of space policy events for the week plus a day of July 19-26, 2026 and any insight we can offer about them. The House and Senate […]
Forty years ago, Aliens burst into our hearts, but this classic sequel nearly fell by the wayside due to some serious studio-created problems that saw James Cameron quit twice.
New research suggests AI can be repeatedly fooled into mistaking non-life for life.
As Nolan embarks on "The Odyssey", we look back on the sci-fi movie where time dilation is as cruel as any Greek god.
A partial solar eclipse by day and the peak of the Perseid meteor shower by night make Aug. 12, 2026, one of the best nights for skywatching and camping in years, but only for some parts of North…
