Here is a list of news that were published in our Newsletter the week of June 9nd, 2025:
Human Space Exploration
- SpaceX launch of private Ax-4 astronauts postponed indefinitely due to leaky ISS module
Coalition Member in the News – Axiom Space; - Working closely with NASA to address Axiom 4 delay, says ISRO
Coalition Member in the News – Axiom Space; - JAXA unveils new HTV-X unmanned vehicle; will make five trips to deliver supplies to astronauts by fiscal 2029;
- Propellant leak delays SpaceX launch of private Ax-4 astronaut mission to the ISS
Coalition Member in the News – Axiom Space; - The nuclear option: Europe’s plan for faster space travel;
- Live coverage: SpaceX to launch fourth commercial Axiom mission to the space station
Coalition Member in the News – Axiom Space; - The promise and peril of a crewed Mars mission;
- Over the Moon: How the Trump-Musk feud helps the lunar mission;
- NASA says no decision yet on whether next Boeing Starliner flight will carry crew
Coalition Member in the News – Boeing;
Space Science
- Volcano ‘hidden in plain sight’ could help date Mars and its habitability;
- Supernova explosions changed Earth’s climate and shaped humanity’s history;
- European Space Agency reveals 3 key space missions threatened by Trump’s NASA budget cuts;
- 75 years after Fermi’s paradox, are we any closer to finding alien life?
- Humanity takes its 1st look at the Sun’s poles: ‘This is just the first step of Solar Orbiter’s stairway to heaven’ (images);
- Filtering terrestrial contamination in the search for alien signals;
- June’s Strawberry Moon treats skywatchers to a rare low-riding show (photos);
- Whitesides says budget proposal shows the administration does not value NASA science;
- ‘We’ve got a new mystery on our hands’: Titan’s weird wobble just got even stranger;
- Unusual stellar nurseries near our galaxy’s center puzzle scientists;
- ‘What a waste’: U.S. scientists decry Trump’s 47% cuts to NASA science budget;
- NASA raises the odds that an asteroid could hit the Moon in 2032;
- Core components for NASA’s Roman Space Telescope pass major shake test;
- There’s an infinite amount of energy locked in the vacuum of space-time. Could we ever use it?
- NASA’s ESCAPADE could launch on second New Glenn;
- 15,000 light-years away, something is blinking and it might rewrite physics;
Other News
- Europe looks to space resilience, autonomy amid global changes;
- Dawn Aerospace sells Aurora suborbital spaceplane to Oklahoma;
- NASA begins push to slash workforce with more staff buyouts, early retirements as budget cuts loom;
- Chinese spacecraft prepare for orbital refueling test as U.S. surveillance sats lurk nearby
Coalition Member in the News – Northrop Grumman; - House appropriators unveil defense bill, boost Space Force funding;
- A reinvigorated push for nuclear power in space;
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NASA, Pentagon push for SpaceX alternatives amid Trump’s feud with Musk;
- A new type of propulsion could revolutionize space travel;
- SpaceX fires up Super Heavy booster ahead of Starship’s 10th test flight (video);
Major Events This Week:
- As the week unfolds and speculation of who President Trump might soon nominate to replace Jared Isaacman as his nominee to serve as NASA administrator, the 4th Axiom Space, four-person private astronaut mission to the ISS is scheduled to launch on Tuesday from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center at 8:22 a.m. EDT weather permitting. The Indian, Polish, Hungarian U.S. crew would then dock on Wednesday at 12:30 p.m. EDT for a planned 14-day stay to carry out an estimated 60 experiments backed by 31 countries.
- On Thursday at 12 p.m. EDT NASA’s Science Mission Directorate (SMD) Associate Administrator Nicky Fox is scheduled to discuss the directorate’s budget status, which faces a White House proposed 47 percent spending reduction for 2026. The presentation is to be webcast.
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