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TAMPA, Fla. — The Federal Communications Commission is set to vote July 22 on an order to overhaul its satellite application process, creating a “licensing assembly line” to keep up with increasingly large and complex constellation plans. The Space Modernization Order would replace the FCC’s long-standing Part 25 space and Earth station regulations with a…
Image: Seagate Space Florida’s aerospace development agency, Space Florida, has approved a strategic investment in Seagate Space, a St. Petersburg startup developing offshore launch infrastructure, signaling growing interest in ocean-based spaceports as launch demand continues to increase. Announced June 2, Space Florida’s $270,000 investment supports Project Manta, a program intended to prototype and demonstrate key…
United Launch Alliance (ULA) will launch another batch of Amazon’s internet satellites to orbit early Thursday morning (July 2), and you can watch it live. An Atlas V rocket carrying 29 Amazon Leo spacecraft is scheduled to lift off from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Thursday, during a 29-minute window that opens at…
Three new contracts are going to companies that will be building a series of lunar landers. From left to right: Astrobotic’s Griffin lander, Intuitive Machines’ Nova-C, and Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost. Astrobotic / Firefly / Intuitive Machines On June 30th, NASA announced additional details about its new plans for the Moon. The agency announced new…
Hot Jupiters are some of the most extreme planets in the universe, blazing gas giants like Jupiter or Saturn that exist so close to their stars that they complete orbits in a matter of days. Now, new research may rewrite the definition of these planets that make the solar system look a little bit mundane….
WASHINGTON — French startup Latitude intends to perform the first launch of its small launch vehicle from a spaceport in Oman in late 2027. The company announced July 1 that it signed a letter of intent with Etlaq Spaceport to use that launch site in Oman for an “experimental” first launch of its rocket. The…
This image by ESA’s (European Space Agency) Euclid (with color added using ground-based images) provides an earlier snapshot of a region of our galaxy that NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will repeatedly observe during the upcoming years. Image Credit: ESA/Euclid/Euclid Consortium/NASA, CFHT, image processing by J.-C. Cuillandre and E. Bertin (CEA Paris-Saclay) Read More…
On 24 June 2026, a pair of earthquakes struck near Caracas, Venezuela, They caused significant ground movement and damage. The extent of the movement of the ground can be determined using satellite imagery. By using before-and-after images of the area around Caracas, the extent of the land movement can be measured. Analysists are using data…
In early May 2026, NASA employees, contractors, and volunteers helped to bring Heliophysics to girls of all ages in a fun-filled weekend of hands-on science activities and experiments. The event took place from May 1-3 at Camp Conowingo, a Girl Scouts of Central Maryland camping property on the Susquehanna River north of Baltimore, and brought…
A Katalyst engineer runs tests on LINK while the satellite is inside the Pegasus XL rocket attached to the Stargazer aircraft at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility on the evening of Tuesday, June 16, 2026. Image Credit: NASA/Ron Beard Read More https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/stargazer-aircraft-with-link-spacecraft-at-nasa-wallops/Copy URL to clipboard> DownloadShare A Katalyst engineer runs tests on LINK while the satellite…