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Blue Origin begins rebuilding New Glenn pad
Blue Origin has started rebuilding a launch pad severely damaged in a New Glenn explosion less than three weeks ago as it works to resume launches by year’s end
Quantum Space wins Pentagon contract to develop orbital refueling spacecraft
The company plans to deliver a fuel-transfer vehicle to the U.S. Space Force by 2028
El Niño Is Underway
Satellite observations of sea surface height indicated that the 2026 event continued to strengthen in early June.
NASA Announces Public-Private Partnership to Advance Mars Science
NASA Wednesday announced a new public‑private partnership to advance Mars science by combining the agency’s scientific leadership with commercial innovation. Under this model, NASA will provide the Aeolus atmospheric‑science instrument payload suite, while Relativity Space supplies the spacecraft, rocket, and cruise operations necessary to deliver the instruments to Mars. This partnership reflects NASA’s growing commitment […]
Terran R second stage heads to Stennis as Relativity advances toward 2026 debut
Terran R, the heavy-lift vehicle currently being developed by Relativity Space, is reaching significant milestones…
Relativity Space to privately develop Mars orbiter mission
Relativity Space plans to launch a Mars orbiter in 2028 as part of a new initiative to privately develop planetary missions.
First Upgraded Ariane 6 Rocket Launches 36 Satellites for Amazon
Arianespace has successfully completed its third Ariane 6 flight of 2026, delivering another 36 Amazon satellites to orbit aboard a new variant of the rocket that features the upgraded P160C solid-fuel boosters. The Ariane 64 rocket, which features four solid-fuel boosters, lifted off at 12:21 UTC from ELA-4 at the Guiana Space Centre. The launch […]
Search for Hidden Cosmic Companions in Sun’s Backyard
Some stars have planets. Others are orbited by brown dwarfs, balls of gas too massive to be planets, but too low-mass to be stars. Astronomers love these brown dwarf-star pairs because being paired with a star helps reveal a brown dwarf’s age. Ages of astronomical objects are often hard to measure, but essential for understanding […]
Upgraded Ariane 6 launches Amazon Leo satellites
An Ariane 6 with upgraded solid rocket boosters successfully launched three dozen Amazon Leo satellites June 17 as ESA weighs options for increasing the vehicle’s launch rate.
NASA’s Fermi Mission Uncovers Possible Sibling Supernova Remnants
A new study of two supernova remnants, the debris left behind after stars explode, suggests the explosions came from stellar siblings that once orbited each other. The first star’s detonation sent its binary companion hurtling through space, and then, after traveling for thousands of years, the surviving star blew up too.
Ariane 6 flight VA269 - full replay
On the 17th of June Ariane 6 flight VA269 soared to orbit from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana. The latest generation of Europe's largest and most powerful rocket launched 36 satellites for Amazon's Leo constellation.
347th ESA Council: Media information session
Watch the replay of the media information session where ESA Director General Josef Aschbacher and outgoing ESA Council Chair Renato Krpoun provide an update on the main outcomes of the 347th ESA Council meeting, held at ESA Headquarters in Paris on 16–17 June 2026.
Hubble Sees Swarm of Galaxies
Looking somewhat like a swarm of bees returning to their hive, this NASA Hubble Space Telescope image released on June 12, 2026, features the galaxy cluster MACS0329-0211. Galaxy clusters like MACS0329-0211 are important signposts in the story of how the structure of the universe evolved, and are the ultimate telescopic lenses, placing gravitationally lensed galaxies from the […]
Launch Preview: 10 launches scheduled from sites across the world
A very busy launch manifest is expected in the upcoming week, with 10 launches scheduled…
Ariane 6 launches with more powerful boosters: a new record for Europe
From the ESA Blogs.
Liftoff: first Ariane 6 liftoff with P160C-based boosters
From the ESA Blogs.
Seen from above: liftoff of first Ariane 6 with P160C-based boosters
From the ESA Blogs.
Liftoff: first Ariane 6 liftoff with P160C-based boosters
From the ESA Blogs.
America’s next economic frontier is 240,000 miles away
Humans have always gazed up at the moon in wonder. A generation ago, NASA astronauts did the extraordinary and touched down on its surface, planting an American flag and igniting […]
First Ariane 6 liftoff with most powerful boosters
On the 17th of June Ariane 6 flight VA269 soared to orbit from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana. The latest generation of Europe's largest and most powerful rocket launched 36 satellites for Amazon's Leo constellation.