Soyuz MS-29 and Starship: Two Milestones in One Busy Week
Roscosmos is launching a fresh crew to the International Space Station aboard Soyuz MS-29, while SpaceX readies Starship for its thirteenth …
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Soyuz MS-29 Delivers Three New Crew Members to the ISS
Lifting off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on July 14, the Soyuz MS-29 spacecraft carried NASA astronaut Anil Menon and cosmonauts Pyotr Dubro…
Defense Budgets Drive Europe's Space Sector Against Global Trend
Europe's space sector is bucking a global downturn. Government space spending on the continent climbed roughly 12% to an estimated $15.4 bil…
Starship Flight 13: fixes, Starlink satellites, and the next step
SpaceX is readying Starship for its thirteenth test flight as early as July 16, aiming to address issues from the previous attempt while dep…
SpaceX hits 600 reused Falcon booster flights in a record week
Between July 10 and 13, 2026, SpaceX conducted three separate Starlink missions from two launch sites, including a milestone flight marking …
The Exploration Company opens US subsidiary to compete for federal contracts
Germany-based The Exploration Company has set up a dedicated US legal entity called TEC Federal, positioning itself to bid on American gover…
Blue Origin to raise $10 billion in its first outside funding round
Blue Origin is set to raise $10 billion from outside investors — a historic first for the company. The move values the firm at around $130 b…
Satellites in orbit are the easy part
AST SpaceMobile keeps adding BlueBird satellites to low Earth orbit in its push for space-based cellular broadband. Yet industry insiders in…
Apolink Checks In With Its First Relay Satellite on Orbit
Apolink confirmed two-way contact with its debut satellite, launched July 7 on a SpaceX rideshare flight. Armed with an experimental FCC lic…
Webb Peers Through Dust to Expose Centaurus A's Hidden Depths
Marking four years of science operations, the James Webb Space Telescope has produced its most detailed view yet of Centaurus A, resolving m…
Hubble Captures Half a Million Stars Blazing in Messier 3
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has released a detailed new image of globular cluster Messier 3, showing over 500,000 stars glowing in shades …
Atlas V's Final Chapter: Six Flights Left Before Retirement
United Launch Alliance's Atlas V completed its final flight in the powerful 551 configuration during an early-morning Amazon LEO satellite d…
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