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Starlink suffers global outage
Posted: Sun, Jul 27 12:55 PM ET (1655 GMT)
SpaceX’s Starlink service is back online after a global outage Thursday. Users reported the service went down around 3:15 pm EDT (1915 GMT),...

Soyuz launches space science satellites
Posted: Sun, Jul 27 12:53 PM ET (1653 GMT)
A Soyuz rocket launched a space science mission and other smallsats early Friday. The Soyuz-2.1b rocket lifted off from the Vostochny Cosmodrome in...

House appropriators seeking alternatives to SLS EUS upper stage
Posted: Sun, Jul 27 12:52 PM ET (1652 GMT)
House appropriators want NASA to study alternatives for a new SLS upper stage. In a report accompanying the commerce, justice and science spending bill that...

Startup iRocket announces plans to go public through SPAC merger
Posted: Sun, Jul 27 12:50 PM ET (1650 GMT)
Startup Innovative Rocket Technologies, or iRocket, says it plans to go public through a SPAC merger. The company said Wednesday it agreed to merge with...

Falcon 9 launches TRACERS mission
Posted: Sun, Jul 27 12:47 PM ET (1647 GMT)
A Falcon 9 launched a NASA space science mission and several other smallsats Wednesday. The Falcon 9 lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base in...

SES completes acquisition of Intelsat
Posted: Sun, Jul 20 9:54 AM ET (1354 GMT)
With its acquisition of Intelsat complete, SES plans to scale up a constellation of medium Earth orbit (MEO) communications satellites. SES completed Thursday its acquisition...

Space Force releases guidelines on commercial use of launch sites
Posted: Sun, Jul 20 9:51 AM ET (1351 GMT)
The U.S. Space Force released new guidelines for how it will allocate finite launch infrastructure and range resources as commercial demand surges. In a...

SpaceX launches Project Kuiper satellites
Posted: Sun, Jul 20 9:47 AM ET (1347 GMT)
SpaceX launched a set of spacecraft for a competitor in the satellite broadband market early Wednesday. A Falcon 9 lifted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida,...

Falcon 9 launches Starlink satellites
Posted: Sun, Jul 20 9:46 AM ET (1346 GMT)
SpaceX also launched more satellites for its own Starlink constellation. A Falcon 9 lifted off at 10:05 pm EDT Tuesday (0205 GMT Wednesday) from...

Ax-4 mission ends with splashdown off California coast
Posted: Sun, Jul 20 9:44 AM ET (1344 GMT)
A private astronaut mission returned to Earth early Tuesday. A SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft splashed down in the Pacific Ocean west of San Diego, California,...



news in brief
Starship launches in 13th test flight
Posted: Sun, Jul 26 7:38 AM ET (1138 GMT)

Long March 3B launches despite lightning strike
Posted: Sun, Jul 26 7:26 AM ET (1126 GMT)

FCC approves satellite spectrum, licensing changes
Posted: Sun, Jul 26 7:21 AM ET (1121 GMT)

news links
Monday, July 27
Nvidia is sending GPUs to the moon
TechCrunch — 5:47 am ET (0947 GMT)
SpaceX plans Starship tower catch for next test flight, Elon Musk announces
KVEO-TV Rio Grande Valley, TX — 5:42 am ET (0942 GMT)


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