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Flexell Space raises $20 Million in Series A round (about 7h ago)

Defense spending lifts Europe’s space economy (about 9h ago)

L3Harris, Sierra Space to build 36 satellites to expand U.S. missile-tracking network (about 10h ago)

Poland to host new ESA center as government boosts investments in space (about 12h ago)

Accel and Prosus backed QOSMIC raises $3.33 Million to Build Optical Ground Stations for the Orbital Data Economy (about 16h ago)

Reditus Space completes first reentry vehicle (about 18h ago)

Voyager completes acquisition of Astrobotic (about 18h ago)

Getting ready for lunar planetary defense (about 18h ago)

Breaking Defense

Reditus readies first launch of its re-entry vehicle/hypersonic target (about 11h ago)

Pentagon announces ‘immediate suspension’ of CMMC Phase II mandates (about 11h ago)

In first, US uses sea drones in combat in Iran strikes: CENTCOM (about 13h ago)

NATO’s plan to buy Triton drones: Three cheers, two concerns (about 14h ago)

Space tag: Jackal, Puma spacecraft to chase each other Victus Haze demo (about 16h ago)

Auterion, Ukrainian drone-maker Skyfall to supply 50,000 FPVs (about 18h ago)

Air & Space Forces

Wilsbach: Active Airmen Must Have Body Composition Scores by July 31 (about 5h ago)

SDA Awards Contracts for 36 Golden Dome Missile Tracking Satellites (about 9h ago)

Sen. Lindsey Graham, 33-Year USAF Vet, Dies (about 10h ago)

Software Sold Separately: What the Air Force’s New Approach for CCAs Means (about 11h ago)

USSF – Headlines

Space Force launches Initial Enlisted Bonus Pilot Program to maximize readiness, return on investment (about 11h ago)

14 Guardians graduate inaugural Regional Space Advisor Academics Course (about 13h ago)

NASA News Releases

Curiosity Blog, Sols 4941-4947: (Pin)Stripes on the Fourth of July (about 6h ago)

NASA Study Points to Smoother Air Taxi Rides (about 9h ago)

NASA Astronaut Anil Menon (about 16h ago)

NASA’s Hubble Discovers First of Star Cluster’s Missing Black Holes (about 17h ago)

Wild, Scenic, and Increasingly Rusty (about 1d ago)

NASA Breaking News

Fans of the Arctic (about 3h ago)

Curiosity Blog, Sols 4941-4947: (Pin)Stripes on the Fourth of July (about 6h ago)

NASA Study Points to Smoother Air Taxi Rides (about 9h ago)

NASA Astronaut Anil Menon (about 16h ago)

NASA’s Hubble Discovers First of Star Cluster’s Missing Black Holes (about 17h ago)

Wild, Scenic, and Increasingly Rusty (about 1d ago)

Phys.org - Space

Most of the moon's water likely remains chemically bound in its deep interior (about 5h ago)

Dead stars in our cosmic backyard: Astronomers spot four white dwarfs hiding under our noses (about 7h ago)

Six massive landslides discovered on icy Pluto (about 11h ago)

Distant exoplanets may be hiding water beyond Webb Telescope's reach, study finds (about 13h ago)

Hubble discovers first of star cluster's missing black holes (about 14h ago)

The US just approved a giant space mirror to test 'sunlight on demand.' Low Earth orbit is getting weird (about 16h ago)

Study reports the first detection of a sugar in interstellar space (about 16h ago)

Quantum-gravitational mechanism could explain the universe's homogeneity (about 19h ago)

Space.com

SpaceX Starship Flight 13 launch updates: SpaceX sets target date for next Starship rocket launch (about 10h ago)

These mysterious exoplanets may have clouds of vaporized rock and grounds of scorching magma oceans (about 10h ago)

Russia's launching a NASA astronaut and 2 cosmonauts to the International Space Station on July 14: Watch it live (about 10h ago)

NASA begins stacking rocket ahead of 2027 Artemis III astronaut launch (photos) (about 14h ago)

SpaceX targets July 16 for Starship Flight 13, reveals what went wrong on previous launch (about 15h ago)

"The Ninth Jedi" is a bold new Star Wars anime project hitting Disney+ next month, and it looks sick! (about 16h ago)

Extremely Large Telescope reaches a major milestone | Space photo of the day for July 13, 2026 (about 17h ago)

Getting Vikram-1 to orbit: Inside Skyroot Aerospace's coming bid to make spaceflight history (about 18h ago)

Upcoming Launches (next 7 days)

Jul 14, 2026 07:15 UTC — Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 10-45

SpaceX • Space Launch Complex 40 — Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA

Jul 14, 2026 14:47 UTC — Soyuz 2.1a | Soyuz MS-29

Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS) • 31/6 — Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan

Jul 16, 2026 20:22 UTC — Falcon 9 Block 5 | SDA Tranche 1 Transport Layer E

SpaceX • Space Launch Complex 4E — Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA

Jul 16, 2026 22:45 UTC — Starship | Flight 13

SpaceX • Orbital Launch Pad 2 — SpaceX Starbase, TX, USA

Jul 17, 2026 11:42 UTC — Long March 7A | Unknown Payload

China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation • 201 — Wenchang Space Launch Site, People's Republic of China

Jul 18, 2026 05:00 UTC — Vikram-I | Demo Flight

Skyroot Aerospace • Satish Dhawan Space Centre First Launch Pad — Satish Dhawan Space Centre, India

Jul 20, 2026 14:00 UTC — Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 17-39