Navigating the shift to commercial space stations
Friday, 25 July 2025 16:10
In this bonus edition of Space Minds, host David Ariosto speaks with Robyn Gatens, NASA's Director for the International Space Station, live at the AIAA Ascend conference in Las Vegas on the status of the International Space Station, its planned decommissioning by 2030 and the expected follow-on commercial space stations.
How to watch two meteor showers peak together in late July
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Blue Origin to fly first Blue Ring spacecraft in spring 2026
Friday, 25 July 2025 12:46
Blue Origin will fly the first mission of its Blue Ring spacecraft next spring carrying a space situational awareness payload from Scout Space.
Week in images: 21-25 July 2025
Friday, 25 July 2025 12:10
Week in images: 21-25 July 2025
Discover our week through the lens
Senegal signs the Artemis Accords
Friday, 25 July 2025 10:43
Senegal is the latest country to sign the Artemis Accords, a move that some believe could help the United States blunt growing Chinese influence in Africa.
Industry warns of severe consequences from ISS funding cuts
Friday, 25 July 2025 10:17
Industry officials issued a stark warning that proposed NASA budget cuts to the International Space Station could jeopardize both the operation of the station and the transition to commercial stations.
Interference to astronomy the unintended consequence of faster internet
Friday, 25 July 2025 10:16
Curtin University researchers have undertaken the world's biggest survey of low frequency satellite radio emissions, finding Starlink satellites are significantly interfering with radio astronomy observations, potentially impacting discovery and research.
Unintended signals from satellites - leaked from onboard electronics - can drown out the faint radio waves astronomers use to study the Russian rocket puts Iran satellite into space: Iran media
Friday, 25 July 2025 10:16
A Russian rocket put an Iranian communications satellite into space on Friday, Iranian state media reported, the latest achievement for an aerospace programme that has long concerned Western governments.
"The Nahid-2 communications satellite was launched from Russia's Vostochny Cosmodrome using a Soyuz rocket," state television said.
Weighing 110 kilograms (over 240 pounds), the satellit Viasat unveils IoT Nano service for global low-power connectivity
Friday, 25 July 2025 10:16
Viasat has introduced IoT Nano, a new satellite-powered connectivity service aimed at providing cost-effective, low-power Internet of Things (IoT) messaging in remote and hard-to-reach areas worldwide. The service, developed in partnership with ORBCOMM, enables two-way communication for monitoring and managing mobile and fixed assets across industries such as agriculture, mining, transport, and Space Force general to oversee U.S. 'Golden Dome' missile shield
Friday, 25 July 2025 10:16
The U.S. Senate has approved Gen. Mike Guetlein to oversee President Donald Trump's national missile defense system, known as the Golden Dome.
The Pentagon announced Tuesday that Guetlein had cleared the final hurdle to leading the Office of Golden Dome for America, which will work with industry, higher education, national labs and other government agencies to develop the high-tech miss The future of construction on Earth is extraterrestrial
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Earth from Space: Kuwaiti waters
Friday, 25 July 2025 07:00
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The turquoise waters southeast of the Kuwaiti island of Failaka are captured in this image acquired by the Φsat-2 mission. 
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Space pierogi bite Heliostats could be used to detect asteroids, says researcher
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UK’s Spaceflux is building a catalog to plug space situational awareness gaps
Thursday, 24 July 2025 18:34
LONDON — United Kingdom-based space surveillance company Spaceflux hopes to introduce a catalog of space objects next year, one that could rival data kept by the United States Space Force and provide satellite conjunction warnings if Europe’s relations with the U.S.