Page 114 of the Delta-V spaceflight news feed opens with “T-20 days: Smile to launch on 9 April”, published by ESA 5 months ago. Delta-V aggregates spaceflight news from 9 outlets including Arstechnica, ESA, European Spaceflight through the Spaceflight News API, ordered newest first and refreshed every thirty minutes, with every headline linking out to the outlet that reported it. This view holds 35,911 stories.
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The Smile mission is set to launch on a Vega-C rocket from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana on Thursday 9 April at 08:29 CEST/07:29 BST/03:29 local time. Follow along as we communicate on the final preparations for launch. Journalists are invited to join online media briefings in English, French, Spanish, Italian and German.
Reported and summarised by ESA. Opens in a new tab.
Thanks to the success of the Arctic Weather Satellite prototype and Eumetsat’s recent greenlight to develop a full constellation of similar satellites called Sterna, the European Space Agency has awarded OHB Sweden with the contract to build 20 satellites.
Reported and summarised by ESA. Opens in a new tab.
New structure gives ‘Portfolio Acquisition Executives’ authority over funding, requirements and integration across major space missions
The post Space Force overhauls buying structure with new mission portfolios appeared first on SpaceNews.
Reported and summarised by SpaceNews. Opens in a new tab.
Telesat plans to carve out 25% of its Lightspeed broadband constellation for military Ka-band as the program’s latest delay pushes global service into early 2028, creating more room to align the design with shifting geopolitical priorities.
The post Telesat pivots Lightspeed toward defense as delays push global service to 2028 appeared first on SpaceNews.
Reported and summarised by SpaceNews. Opens in a new tab.
NASA’s X-59 experimental aircraft is preparing for its second flight, a step that will set the pace for more flight testing in 2026. Over the coming months, NASA will take the quiet supersonic jet faster and higher, while validating safety and performance, a process known as envelope expansion. NASA test pilot Jim “Clue” Less will be at the X-59’s […]
Reported and summarised by NASA. Opens in a new tab.
The Trump administration has not yet decided whether to charge for space safety data despite a change in space policy enabling the government to do so.
The post Office of Space Commerce weighing options for TraCSS user fees appeared first on SpaceNews.
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Cancer the Crab is a dim constellation, yet it contains one of the most beautiful and easy-to-spot star clusters in our sky: the Beehive Cluster. Cancer also possesses one of the most studied exoplanets: the superhot super-Earth, 55 Cancri e. Find Cancer’s dim stars by looking in between the brighter neighboring constellations of Gemini and […]
Reported and summarised by NASA. Opens in a new tab.
The industry’s supply network, built for smaller volumes and slower production cycles, is struggling to keep pace.
The post Space boom strains supply chain, industry report warns appeared first on SpaceNews.
Reported and summarised by SpaceNews. Opens in a new tab.
Guetlein: ‘We were asked to procure some additional space capabilities’
The post Golden Dome cost estimate rises to $185 billion as Pentagon expands space layer appeared first on SpaceNews.
Reported and summarised by SpaceNews. Opens in a new tab.
Stuttgart, Germany – Marc. 17, 2026 – ISPTech, a German space technology company developing propulsion systems for agile in-orbit maneuvering, announced it has raised €5.5 million in seed funding to […]
The post ISPTech Raises €5.5M Seed Round to Redefine How Spacecraft Manoeuvre in Orbit appeared first on SpaceNews.
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These X-ray computed tomography (XCT) scans released on March 17, 2026, give us a glimpse inside asteroid Bennu. They show the most common types of crack networks observed in Bennu samples; these networks solved a mystery that baffled NASA for years. When NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft first approached asteroid Bennu in 2018, scientists expected to see smooth, sandy beach-like surfaces. Instead, they […]
Reported and summarised by NASA. Opens in a new tab.
French launch startup Sirius Space Services has acquired the high-precision metal-component manufacturer AMM-42. The acquisition is part of the company’s vertical integration efforts to bring key manufacturing capabilities in-house. Sirius Space Services is developing a range of three rockets that all use a modular booster system. Sirius 1 will be a two-stage, single-stick rocket capable […]
The post Sirius Space Services Acquires AMM-42 as It Prepares for Inaugural Flight appeared first on European Spaceflight.
Reported and summarised by European Spaceflight. Opens in a new tab.
In one of the biggest surprises of NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission, its target asteroid, Bennu, turned out to be a jagged, rugged world covered in large boulders, with few of the smooth patches of sandy or pebbly material scientists had expected based on observations with Earth-based instruments. Bennu’s looks were quite deceiving, and until now, scientists struggled to figure out why.
Reported and summarised by NASA. Opens in a new tab.
The bigger the hailstone, the more damage it can cause. But scientists find that predicting hailstone size can be challenging. How quickly does hail melt as it falls?
Reported and summarised by NASA. Opens in a new tab.
The Canadian military announced March 16 a major investment in both launch facilities and companies in a bid to create a sovereign space access capability.
The post Canadian military invests in sovereign launch appeared first on SpaceNews.
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Before you ever set foot on a spacecraft bound for deep space, tiny replicas of your organs might make the journey first. Suspended in microgravity aboard a research mission, this organ-on-a-chip, or tissue chip, engineered from your own cells, could reveal how your body will respond to cosmic radiation and the weightlessness of space. As […]
The post An astronaut’s tiny stand-in: tissue chips in space health appeared first on SpaceNews.
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South Korean startup Innospace says its inaugural launch failed in December when exhaust leaked from a combustion chamber and caused the rocket to break up.
The post Innospace completes investigation into Hanbit-Nano launch failure appeared first on SpaceNews.
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NASA Associate Administrator Amit Kshatriya said today that to be as agile as possible, the agency is opening up the specifications for early Artemis landings while keeping their sights on […]
Reported and summarised by SpacePolicyOnline.com. Opens in a new tab.
Another busy launch manifest is scheduled for this week, with nine launches expected from various…
The post Launch Preview: Falcon 9, Spectrum, Electron to launch during busy week of launches appeared first on NASASpaceFlight.com.
Reported and summarised by NASASpaceflight. Opens in a new tab.
The Starlink 10-46 mission will add another 29 Starlink V2 Mini satellites to the low Earth orbit constellation. Liftoff from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station is scheduled during a window that opens at 6:26 a.m. EDT (1026 UTC).
Reported and summarised by Spaceflight Now. Opens in a new tab.
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