This week, off world: NASA telescope images Saturn sized planet, China may be winning the space race, and loads more...

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Blue Origin launches 6 tourists on suborbital trip from Texas, including 750th person ever to fly into space | Space

Japan launches GOSAT-GW on 50th and final liftoff of the H-2A rocket (video) | Space

Rocket Lab launches 'Symphony of the Stars' mission | Space

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Rocket Lab to launch European navigation tech demo satellites - SpaceNews

Space Inventor Launches First Danish Arctic Satellite - SpaceNews

ESA releases images of Earth unlike anything you’ve seen before

The ups and downs of life in space | On the ISS this week June 23 - 27, 2025 | Space

How China is winning the military space race

Satellite imagery firms escalate warnings over budget cuts - SpaceNews

Lux Aeterna emerges from stealth with funds for fully reusable satellite platform - SpaceNews

Nasa telescope captures unprecedented image

This week, off world: China (possibly) conducts re-fuelling test in space, while US satellite watch, and Honda lands its 1st re-useable rocket...

  Decades of conflict have devastated the Central African Republic, with especially harsh effects on children. To help alleviate the suffering if this mostly forgotten conflict, you can donate here...

...here is (one) place you can donate to help children in Afghanistan, caught under the Taliban...

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This Week in Orbit 🌍 | Earth in 4K from Space – Cities, Mountains & Storms:

Watch Honda launch (and land) its 1st reusable rocket in this wild video | Space

2 Chinese spacecraft just met up 22,000 miles above Earth. What were they doing? | Space

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Landspace performs 9-engine static fire test for reusable Zhuque-3 rocket  - SpaceNews

Old but still cool: Japanese spacecraft flies around big derelict upper stage booster

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Varda to launch its first in-house built spacecraft for on-orbit manufacturing - SpaceNews

NASA moon orbiter spies grave of crashed Japanese lunar lander (image) | Space

ESA signs agreement for potential use of Orbital Reef - SpaceNews

Pentagon struggles to build unified satellite network  - SpaceNews

Trump’s dispute with Musk shows the danger of private monopolies in space - SpaceNews

Portal Space Systems to build larger factory for Supernova vehicle - SpaceNews

ESA and EU emphasize good relationship as they press forward on imaging constellation - SpaceNews

This week, off world: The Israel-Iran conflict examined by satellites, cancer research using microgravity and loads more...

 Decades of conflict have devastated the Central African Republic, with especially harsh effects on children. To help alleviate the suffering if this mostly forgotten conflict, you can donate here...

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Yuanxingzhe-1 - the first recovery test of the first stage

Solar Orbiter spacecraft snaps first images of Sun's south pole - BBC News

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Satellite photos reveal damage to Iranian missile bases after Israeli strikes

Could the answers to cancer lie in space? Why off-Earth research is heating up | Space

Chinese spacecraft prepare for orbital refueling test as US surveillance sats lurk nearby - SpaceNews

Xplore reveals hyperspectral imagery from first satellite - SpaceNews

This week, off world: A success for China’s answer to SpaceX's re-usable rockets passe a milestone, Africa's space agency presents a united front, and loads more...

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Chinese launch startup conducts vertical takeoff and splashdown test - SpaceNews

What was before the Big Bang?  

Los Angeles from 400km up:

Never before seen details of the suns corona:

Dragon’s journey over the Pacific Ocean:

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Second ispace lunar lander presumed lost - SpaceNews

China's Tianwen 2 spacecraft sends home 1st photo as it heads for mysterious 'quasi-moon' asteroid | Space

NASA’s ESCAPADE could launch on second New Glenn - SpaceNews

Africa's new space agency presents a unified space front - SpaceNews

The new attack surface: from space to smartphone - SpaceNews

Enpulsion Unveils Nexus, Its Most Powerful Electric Propulsion System to Date - SpaceNews