Here is a list of news that were published in our Newsletter the week of July 28, 2025:
Human Space Exploration
- Crew-11 astronauts, cosmonaut arrive in Florida ahead of launch to the space station
Coalition Member in the News – Boeing; - Thales Alenia Space and Italian Space Agency to develop first human outpost on the Moon;
- NASA: Senegal is 56th country to sign Artemis Accords;
- Launch pad indicator error causes SpaceX, NASA to scrub planned static fire test of a Falcon 9 rocket ahead of the Crew-11 launch
Coalition Member in the News – Axiom Space; - SpaceX, NASA conduct static fire test of a Falcon 9 rocket ahead of the Crew-11 launch
Coalition Member in the News – Axiom Space; - Russian space chief to meet NASA head for first time in eight years
Coalition Member in the News – Boeing; - Canada awards study contracts for lunar utility rover;
- Crew Dragon commander, bumped from flight last year, finally heading to space
Coalition Member in the News – Boeing; - Artemis II astronauts stress the importance of their Moon mission as NASA faces budget, workforce cuts: ‘We have to move the needle.’;
- SpaceX Crew Dragon launch delayed by weather, as astronauts who got bumped last year keep waiting
Coalition Member in the News – Boeing; - Air leak persists on Russian ISS segment;
- New space station crew to mark a historic milestone: 25 years of continuous human presence on ISS
Coalition Member in the News – Boeing
Space Science
- Mars’ seasonal frost could briefly host liquid water;
- Life could survive beneath the surface of Mars and other planets using high energy particles from space;
- Earth’s continents are drying out at unprecedented rate, satellite data reveal;
- Asteroid strike could cause a Moondust meteor storm;
- Scientists use cosmic dust to reconstruct Earth’s atmospheric history;
- Comet 3I/ATLAS is 7 miles wide;
- Biggest cosmic explosion on record since the Big Bang is revealing the secrets of gamma-ray bursts;
- NASA pauses acquisition of lunar communications ground stations;
- NASA picks Firefly Aerospace for ambitious 2029 lunar rover and instrument delivery;
- Water recycling is paramount for space stations and long-duration missions an environmental engineer explains how the ISS does it;
- Good news for Mars settlers? Red Planet glaciers are mostly pure water ice, study suggests;
- A new lunar far side radio telescope is ready for testing;
- Nearby super-Earth K2-18 b may be a water-rich ocean planet: ‘This has certainly increased the chances of habitability’;
- Simulations prove early Earth’s liquid core generated protective magnetic field;
Other News
- More than 20% of NASA’s workforce requests to leave agency;
- 9.7 million approved by Texas Space Commission for SEARF grant awards;
- NASA awards Barrios Technology $450 million contract
Coalition Member in the News – Barrios Technology; - U.S. military X-37B space plane prepares for eighth mission
Coalition Member in the News – Boeing; - U.S. and India launch historic joint mission that could change the way we see Earth;
- Crew-11 must wait another day, while Duffy meets with Bakanov;
Major Events This Week:
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- Launch of NASA’s Crew-11 mission to the ISS with is scheduled for Thursday at 12:09 p.m. EDT followed by a rendezvous and docking with the ISS early Saturday.
- Launch of the NASA, Indian Space Research Organization NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) satellite mission, a joint effort by the two agencies to study 3-D changes in Earth’s land and ice surface is slated for Wednesday at 8:10 a.m. EDT. Live stream observation of each event is available..
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