Rocket Lab's Neutron Rocket Likely Pushed to 2027
Rocket Lab has signaled to investors that a 2026 debut for its Neutron medium-lift rocket is increasingly unlikely. Yet Kepler Communication…
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Webb Turns Its Gaze on NGC 2392, the Lion Nebula
The James Webb Space Telescope has produced striking new images of NGC 2392, the so-called Lion Nebula. Captured in infrared light, these ob…
SpaceX fires off back-to-back Starlink missions in under 48 hours
With its 72nd and 73rd Starlink flights of the year launched within 48 hours from two separate pads, SpaceX is sustaining a launch tempo tha…
Blue Origin to hot-fire New Glenn upper stage at Stennis
Blue Origin has finalized an agreement with NASA to hot-fire test New Glenn's second stage on the B-2 stand at Stennis Space Center, keeping…
Wildfires in Spain Threaten Two Critical Deep-Space Ground Stations
In late July 2026, wildfires sweeping across Spain pushed dangerously close to two of the world's most important deep-space ground stations.…
US Commerce Department Opens Door to Novel Space Mission Authorization
For years, US companies pursuing novel space operations had no clear path to federal authorization. The Commerce Department's new voluntary …
Chris Williams Wraps Up 241-Day ISS Mission Before Return
NASA astronaut Chris Williams is headed home after eight months aboard the International Space Station. Alongside two Russian cosmonauts, he…
Juno Probes the Subsurface Heat of Volcanic Moon Io
NASA's Juno spacecraft has accomplished something no mission had managed before: measuring heat below the surface of Jupiter's moon Io. The …
NISAR Goes Public, Unveiling a Hummingbird Frozen in Antarctic Ice
As of July 20, 2026, NISAR radar data is freely available to anyone. Among the first images published: a rocky Antarctic peak surrounded by …
Reading the Unreadable: NASA Maps Io and Distant Worlds
NASA's Juno spacecraft is charting Io's internal heat using a microwave instrument never designed for the task, while researchers are develo…
Gravity-1 completes third sea launch, deploying nine satellites
Chinese launch startup Orienspace successfully flew its Gravity-1 solid rocket for the third time from a sea platform near Shanghai, deliver…
MRV-1 Launches to Breathe New Life into Aging Satellites
A SpaceX Falcon 9 carried Northrop Grumman's Mission Robotic Vehicle into orbit on July 21, kicking off an ambitious, DARPA-backed program t…
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