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July 17, 2026
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…
Skyroot Aerospace's Vikram-1 rocket aced its debut mission on Saturday morning (July 18), making India the third nation with a private orbital launch capability.
Image: Mars Express image
Video: 00:02:09 From 22-26 June 2026, 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 Dark Energy Camera has captured a vibrant view of the Corona Australis Molecular Cloud, with the star-forming region resembling a cosmic take on Van Gogh's The Starry Night.
Finding craters, speaking out against anti-science policies, preventing asteroid impacts, making art — these are all great ways to make a difference.
The USSF selected 843 Guardians for promotion to the ranks of sergeant, technical sergeant, and master sergeant during the USSF 2026 Mega Board. <br/> <img…
Satellites have captured images of the billowing smoke.
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…
Week in images: 13-17 July 2026 Discover our week through the lens
The 2026 Perseid meteor shower is active from tonight and peaks alongside a dramatic total solar eclipse on Aug. 12-13.
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..
On July 10, China recovered the first stage of an orbital rocket for the first time during the maiden flight of the Long March 10B. 8 minutes after liftoff from Wenchang, the first…
This week's ISS astronaut launch used a Soyuz rocket emblazoned with an ad for an energy drink. It's not the first time Russia has put an ad in space — and more may be coming.
UK involvement in the SMILE (Solar wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Link Explorer) mission.
"We have done everything that could be done to test Vikram-1 on ground."
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…
On July 20, 1976, the Viking 1 probe landed on Mars. A first! Fifty years later, witnesses to this historic event look back on the anxiety, then the euphoria, that…
A new study suggests the most extreme solar storms to strike Earth could have greater impacts on satellites, power grids and communications than previously thought.
A 3.9-billion-year-old rock sequence discovered by Perseverance in Jezero Crater tells the story of the most violent era in Martian history
The complex, focusing on civil security and resilience, will support the efficient and coordinated development of European capacities in sectors of high strategic value. The statement was made..
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
Everyday Astronaut's full broadcast for the Starship Flight 13 launch attempt, scrubbed before liftoff. The pre-launch coverage goes over what SpaceX was after with this mission: the second flight of a V3 Starship and the deployment of the first operational Starlink V3 satellites, on another sub-orbital profile with objectives close to Flight 12's and full reuse as the longer-term goal.
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.
