SpaceX's Starship rocket launches from Starbase during its second test flight in Boca Chica, Texas, on November 18, 2023.Photograph: TIMOTHY A. CLARY/Getty Images By Josh Dinner, Published by Space.com, 7 July 2025 The Air Force's Rocket Cargo Vanguard program will apparently look for a new place for rockets to land.
By Dan Robinson, Published by The Register, 6 July 2025 Got to be a 'clean space superpower' – right, Brits? Britain's space agency is looking for a supplier to build a robotic spacecraft to capture and de-orbit two defunct UK-licensed satellites from low Earth orbit. The proposed Active Debris Removal
A Ground-Based Interceptor is launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. Lawmakers and Northrop Grumman are looking at increasing Ground-Based Interceptor production as part of the Golden Dome. (Image: U.S. Missile Defense Agency) By Brian Everstine, Published by Aviation Week, 4 July 2025 In 1991, TRW Space & Technology Group
The U.S. military wants to field space-based moving-target-indicator capabilities by the 2030s. By Vivienne Machi, Published by Aviation Week, 4 July 2025 The U.S. Defense Department is becoming more serious about moving into space missions that have long been associated with flagship airborne platforms, a shift that would upend more
Protest outside Auckland’s Rocket Lab HQ on 4 July By Murray Horton, From: Anti-Bases Campaign, New Zealand, 4 July 2025 The day after PSNA announced our referral of four cabinet ministers and two business leaders to the International Criminal Court wee supported the “End Rocket Lab Genocide Complicity” protest outside
NASA has awarded funds to Austin, Texas-based ICON, to develop construction technologies that could help build landing pads, habitats, and roads on the Moon using local lunar resources. (Image credit: ICON/BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group) By Martina Elia Vitoloni, Published by The Conversation, 2 July 2025 In science-fiction stories, companies often mine
Rendering of an Iridium satellite in low Earth orbit. Courtesy Iridium. By Shaun Waterman, Published by Air and Space Forces, 1 July 2025 The Space Force is playing midwife to a new ecosystem of commercial satellite constellations providing alternatives to the service’s own Global Positioning Service from much closer to
Starlink satellites have been forced to maneuver over 50,000 times to avoid potential orbital collision since the constellation's first satellite launch. (Image credit: Arda Kucukkaya/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images) Published by PC Magazine, 1 July 2025 The company deorbited about 2.6 satellites per day between December and May, causing them
