Page 17 of the Delta-V spaceflight news feed opens with “Rocket Lab, STR win Space Force contracts for airborne-target tracking technologies”, published by SpaceNews 23 days 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 35,863 stories.
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The companies, along with a third unidentified vendor, won $615 million in contracts for the AMTI satellite program
The post Rocket Lab, STR win Space Force contracts for airborne-target tracking technologies appeared first on SpaceNews.
Reported and summarised by SpaceNews. Opens in a new tab.
Arctic communications award will fund an expansion of Telesat’s Lightspeed, taking the planned LEO network to 225 spacecraft
The post Telesat lands $1.63 billion Canadian defense contract appeared first on SpaceNews.
Reported and summarised by SpaceNews. Opens in a new tab.
After a previously targeted launch date in November, NASA has moved up the next International…
The post Crew-13 pilot reflects on career, training, and upcoming science ahead of flight to ISS appeared first on NASASpaceFlight.com.
Reported and summarised by NASASpaceflight. Opens in a new tab.
SAN FRANCISCO – The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will continue to evaluate data from Spire Global’s Hyperspectral Microwave Sounder (HyMS) under a $3 million contract extension announced Aug. 4. […]
The post NOAA purchases Spire hyperspectral microwave sounder data appeared first on SpaceNews.
Reported and summarised by SpaceNews. Opens in a new tab.
Using ground-based telescopes and space-based assets, NASA and SpaceX are tracking a used Falcon 9 upper stage from a commercial mission expected to impact the Moon on Wednesday, Aug. 5, near the Einstein and Bell craters. The impact poses no danger to Earth and NASA scientists are planning to collect lunar data from the event […]
Reported and summarised by NASA. Opens in a new tab.
Using continuous imagery from NASA’s PUNCH (Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere) mission, scientists predicted the near-Earth arrival of a solar eruption to within 30 minutes in an initial proof of concept test. The results, presented Tuesday at the Committee on Space Research Scientific Meeting and under review at the journal Space Weather, could […]
Reported and summarised by NASA. Opens in a new tab.
The NASA Ames Science Directorate recognizes the outstanding contributions of (pictured left to right) Danielle Lopez, Jennifer Claudio, and Duncan Mifsud. Their commitment to the NASA mission represents the entrepreneurial spirit, technical expertise, and collaborative disposition needed to explore this world and beyond. Space Biosciences Star of the Month: Danielle Lopez Danielle Lopez is the […]
Reported and summarised by NASA. Opens in a new tab.
SpaceX is recovering the intact Ship 40 from the Indian Ocean after its soft landing…
The post While SpaceX recovers Ship 40, Ship 41 prepares for testing ahead of Flight 14 appeared first on NASASpaceFlight.com.
Reported and summarised by NASASpaceflight. Opens in a new tab.
NASA is making progress in building the Moon Base, which will become a resilient outpost near the Moon’s South Pole for science, technology, and eventual human operations. To advance lunar surface infrastructure development, commercial partners such as Blue Origin, Firefly Aerospace, Intuitive Machines, and Voyager Lunar Systems are working toward delivering landers by 2028. These […]
Reported and summarised by NASA. Opens in a new tab.
The Starlink 17-53 mission is the 90th Falcon 9 rocket launch of the year. Liftoff from pad 4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base is scheduled for 10:05 a.m. PDT (1:05 p.m. EDT / 1705 UTC).
Reported and summarised by Spaceflight Now. Opens in a new tab.
Technicians installed a commemorative plaque, seen in this July 28, 2026, photo, on NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. The plaque honors the legacy of Dr. Nancy Grace Roman, NASA’s first chief astronomer and one of the architects of the agency’s modern science program. It also features a memory card containing a total of 1,350,144 […]
Reported and summarised by NASA. Opens in a new tab.
SAN FRANCISCO – Rubicon Space Systems completed hot-fire testing of its Velox 5-newton ASCENT monopropellant thruster, paving the way for on-orbit operations in 2027. “The program demonstrated performance beyond our […]
The post Rubicon ASCENT thruster moves from hot-fire testing to production appeared first on SpaceNews.
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Startups and established spacecraft manufacturers are investing in engines designed to give small satellites more freedom to change orbit
The post Military demand shapes market for satellite propulsion appeared first on SpaceNews.
Reported and summarised by SpaceNews. Opens in a new tab.
While SpaceX says there is a “significant” amount of life left in its Crew Dragon fleet, the company has hedged on how long it will continue flying the spacecraft.
The post Future of Crew Dragon weighs on commercial spaceflight industry appeared first on SpaceNews.
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Demand for microgravity research and manufacturing is brewing — perhaps literally.When SpaceX launched the first test flight of Starfall, its commercial reentry capsule, on June 23, the company did not […]
The post SpaceX’s new Starfall program offers validation and competition for reentry startups appeared first on SpaceNews.
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ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot has completed a third and likely final test of EuroSuit, a European intravehicular activity (IVA) spacesuit prototype, aboard the International Space Station (ISS). The suit was developed under a CNES contract by a French consortium led by Spartan Space, which also includes the sporting goods retailer Decathlon. In a 20 July […]
The post ESA Astronaut Completes Third Test of EuroSuit Prototype Aboard ISS appeared first on European Spaceflight.
Reported and summarised by European Spaceflight. Opens in a new tab.
AE Industrial private-equity firm takes 60% stake as L3Harris retains a noncontrolling interest
The post Rocketdyne reemerges as standalone space company appeared first on SpaceNews.
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The European Space Agency (ESA) and The Pokémon Company International (TPCi) are teaming up to celebrate World Space Week from 4–10 October 2026. This unique, limited-time collaboration brings together two worlds united by curiosity, exploration and imagination.
Reported and summarised by ESA. Opens in a new tab.
APOD Science APOD APOD: August 4, 2026 –… Today’s APOD Archive Submissions Index Search Calendar RSS Education About Discuss APOD Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. Curious Cometary Knots […]
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SAN FRANCISCO – Spanish startup Kreios Space announced plans Aug. 4 to conduct the first very low Earth orbit (VLEO) demonstration of its air-breathing electric propulsion (ABEP) in a Kongsberg […]
The post Kreios Space to fly VLEO demonstration in NanoAvionics bus appeared first on SpaceNews.
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Wildland fires in early August 2026 pushed air quality to unhealthy levels, destroyed hundreds of structures, and triggered mandatory evacuations in Spokane.
Reported and summarised by NASA. Opens in a new tab.
With a Falcon 9 upper stage set to hit the moon this week, SpaceX says it is working with NASA on ways to prevent similar collisions in the future.
The post NASA, SpaceX studying how to prevent future upper stage lunar collisions appeared first on SpaceNews.
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NASA and SpaceX are getting ready to launch Crew-13 to the International Space Station in September. For the first time, if an emergency occurs on the launch pad and the […]
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