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Live coverage: SpaceX to launch 3 AST SpaceMobile BlueBird satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral

The BlueBird 11-13 mission is the third time SpaceX will fly satellites to orbit supporting AST SpaceMobile’s direct-to-device constellation. Liftoff from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station is scheduled during a window that opens at 3:42 a.m. EDT (0742 UTC).

Neuraspace raises $18 million to expand sovereign space awareness

Neuraspace, the Portuguese space traffic management startup, announced around $18 million in fresh funding Aug. 5 to expand European space domain awareness and defense capabilities.

APOD: 2026 August 5 – Spokes on Saturn’s B Ring

The Paradox of Lençóis Maranhenses National Park

The coastal dune field in Brazil looks like a desert but fills with freshwater lagoons every year.

Voyager seeks relaxed requirements in NASA commercial space station RFP

Voyager Technologies remains upbeat about the prospects for its Starlab commercial space station but is hoping for some tweaks to NASA’s plans to support the station’s development.

Next Starship Will Deliver Operational V3 Starlinks to Orbit, Maybe Catch Ship

During its first earnings call since going public, SpaceX officials said today the next Starship test flight, IFT-14, will put operational Starlink Version 3 satellites into orbit. If they get […]

SpaceX to begin Starship orbital flights

SpaceX plans to start deploying upgraded Starlink satellites into orbit on the next flight of its Starship vehicle, scheduled for as soon as the end of the month.

Rocket Lab, STR win Space Force contracts for airborne-target tracking technologies

The companies, along with a third unidentified vendor, won $615 million in contracts for the AMTI satellite program

Telesat lands $1.63 billion Canadian defense contract

Arctic communications award will fund an expansion of Telesat’s Lightspeed, taking the planned LEO network to 225 spacecraft

Crew-13 pilot reflects on career, training, and upcoming science ahead of flight to ISS

After a previously targeted launch date in November, NASA has moved up the next International…

NOAA purchases Spire hyperspectral microwave sounder data

SAN FRANCISCO – The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will continue to evaluate data from Spire Global’s Hyperspectral Microwave Sounder (HyMS) under a $3 million contract extension announced Aug. 4. […]

NASA Will Attempt to Observe Rocket Part’s Lunar Impact

Using ground-based telescopes and space-based assets, NASA and SpaceX are tracking a used Falcon 9 upper stage from a commercial mission expected to impact the Moon on Wednesday, Aug. 5, near the Einstein and Bell craters. The impact poses no danger to Earth and NASA scientists are planning to collect lunar data from the event […]