The satellite industry’s most expensive problem isn’t in orbit

AST SpaceMobile recently deployed three more BlueBird satellites into low Earth orbit as it advances plans for a space-based cellular broadband network of 45 to 60 satellites by the end […]

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Fi expands Starlink direct-to-device capability into dog-tracking

Pet technology company Fi launched a dog tracker July 8 that uses T-Mobile’s Starlink-enabled T-Satellite service to remain connected across the United States, even outside the telco’s terrestrial network.

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The tech giant said people can opt out - but privacy campaigners called it a "recipe for disaster".

Source: Outcry as Meta lets users make AI images from public Instagram profile pics

Venus Aerospace raises $91 million to scale rocket engine technology

Funding will support development and production of the company’s rotating detonation rocket engine

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The government’s options to address strained spaceports

The May 28 explosion of a Blue Origin New Glenn rocket at Cape Canaveral’s Launch Complex 36 did more than destroy a rocket and severely damage a launch pad. The […]

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Space Force adds Relativity, Impulse Space to national security launch program

The NSSL Phase 3 Lane 1 program opens door to newer companies competing for military missions

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Cottonwood Fire Chars Utah
The blaze burned more than 150 square miles and swept through parts of a ski resort.
https://science.nasa.gov/earth/earth-observatory/cottonwood-fire-chars-utah/

Skyroot prepares for first orbital launch attempt

Indian launch startup Skyroot Aerospace is preparing for its first orbital launch attempt as soon as July 12, with plans to quickly scale up to monthly launches.

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D-Orbit signs launch-services contract with ArkEdge Space

SAN FRANCISCO - Italian space logistics specialist D-Orbit will provide a series of launches aboard its ION Satellite Carrier for Japanese startup ArkEdge Space, under a contract announced July 8 […]

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Prestige, Career Paths, and Job Satisfaction Among Recent Philosophy PhDs (guest post)

Philosophy PhDs whose family backgrounds are higher in socioeconomic status are more likely to earn their doctorates from more prestigious programs. The graduates of more prestigious PhD programs are more likely to prefer academic employment to non-academic employment, and to obtain it. Those are among the several findings shared in this guest post by Kino Zhao, assistant professor of philosophy at Simon Fraser University and one of the co-directors of the Academic Philosophy Data & Analysis (APDA) project. The analysis is based on information in the APDA database and responses to its 2025 survey. (A version of this post appears at The APDA Blog.) Prestige, Career Paths, and Job Satisfaction Among Recent Philosophy PhDs by Kino Zhao In an earlier post, Carolyn Dicey Jennings reported some findings concerning career paths of philosophy PhDs that was based on data collected from program websites and other online sources. In this post, I discuss some findings on academic vs non-academic career paths that are based on both the APDA database and the 2025 survey. Description of Data I draw on two different data sources for this analysis. The first, I will call Coded Data, is a dataset we maintain by manually tracking down placement data on graduates from 150 English-speaking philosophy PhD programs (using a combination of department placement pages and internet searches, and input from program representatives and the individuals themselves). This dataset is not anonymous to APDA personnel or program representatives (names are removed for the broader public), but it only contains what is publicly available such as one’s employing institution and job title, alongside names and basic contact information (email). Everyone from this dataset for whom we can find contact information is invited to participate in the survey we conduct every two years, resulting in what I will call Survey Data. The survey data is anonymous. It asks respondents to report things like whether they are satisfied with their current employment without providing us a way of knowing who their employers are (for obvious reasons). For a more comprehensive overview of the methodology behind these two datasets, see this methodology paper. For this analysis, I am only looking at people who graduated in the year 2015 or after. All incomplete entries are dropped. Table 1. Coded Data: Facts..

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Orbit Fab hires new CEO and raises funding to support satellite refueling business

With a new chief executive and funding round, satellite refueling company Orbit Fab hopes to make the transition from technology development to operations.

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To celebrate the fourth birthday of the James Webb Space Telescope, NASA has released a stunning image of the strangely shaped galaxy Centaurus A, the site of a cosmic collision 2 billion years ago.

Source: James Webb Space Telescope celebrates its 4th birthday with stunning image of a galaxy crash site

The impact screen time is having on younger children.

Source: Tech Life

Astronomers used cosmic explosions to find that we may be wrong about our own galaxy.

Source: Our Milky Way galaxy might be larger than we thought  

'Project Hail Mary' blasted off onto Prime Video starting on July 3.

Source: 'Project Hail Mary' is finally streaming Amazon Prime Video, and we can't wait to watch it again

Spirit Electronics Announces Managed Access to U.S.-Based Advanced Semiconductor Manufacturing for Aerospace and Defense Programs

PHOENIX, AZ — June 09, 2026 — Spirit Electronics today announced a new managed-access offering that provides aerospace and defense customers with a secure pathway to advanced, U.S.-based semiconductor manufacturing in […]

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Apolink makes contact with first relay satellite

Apolink has made contact with its first satellite after launching on SpaceX’s July 7 rideshare mission, clearing the way for a data relay demonstration using a novel experimental license from the Federal Communications Commission.

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NASA Transfers ‘Hundred Acre Wood’ to Patuxent Research Refuge
NASA ceremonially transferred ownership of about 105 acres of wooded land at its Goddard Space Flight Center’s Greenbelt, Maryland, campus Tuesday to the adjoining Patuxent Research Refuge, managed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The property, formerly known as NASA Goddard’s Area 400, is now part of the largest block of unfragmented forest between […]
https://www.nasa.gov/centers-and-facilities/goddard/nasa-transfers-hundred-acre-wood-to-patuxent-research-refuge/

The Canadian Space Agency's Jeremy Hansen will step back from active astronaut service in September for a new role.

Source: Artemis 2's Jeremy Hansen stepping down from active astronaut duty after epic moon mission

Arianespace opens door to GEO rideshare opportunities from 2029

MILAN — Arianespace has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with French in-orbit servicing company Infinite Orbits to explore future collaboration on multiple direct-to-GEO rideshare launch services, the companies announced July […]

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NASA’s New Horizons Spacecraft Wakes from Hibernation in Good Health
Following its longest hibernation period ever of nearly a year, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has emerged in good health and is ready to begin transmitting science data gathered in the distant Kuiper Belt far beyond Pluto. On June 23, flight controllers at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, confirmed New Horizons, […]
https://science.nasa.gov/missions/new-horizons/nasas-new-horizons-spacecraft-wakes-from-hibernation-in-good-health/

No single agency — not even NASA — can develop all the technologies and systems needed for sustained Mars settlement.

Source: How public-private partnerships can turn Mars into an economic frontier (Op-Ed)