SpaceWeekly News Summary May 3 – May 9, 2026

🚀 Starship Test Campaign Continues in Texas SpaceX continued preparations for the next Starship integrated flight…

NASA, GE Aerospace Work Enables Hybrid-Electric Flight Demonstration

An aircraft powered by a megawatt-class hybrid-electric engine developed in collaboration with NASA and built by…

Our First View of the Surface of Mars

On the morning of July 20, 1976, roughly 40 minutes after mission controllers received word that…

The ARRL Solar Update

07/20/2026 Solar activity has remained at low levels, with an occasionallow-level C-class flaring observed, including a…

Plato’s electronics ready for space

The European Space Agency’s terrestrial planet hunter Plato has recently completed a series of key tests inside…

Artemis II crew at ESTEC

The four Artemis II astronauts visited ESTEC, ESA’s technical centre in the Netherlands, on 13 July as the…

Meteorite strike of New Jersey home reveals life clues

View larger. | Meteorite strike of New Jersey home! Here’s the space rock itself. It crashed…

NASA Pushes New Wing Design to Find Structural Limits

NASA researchers recently put a new wing design, appearing long and thin with a lightweight structural…

NASA Awards Facilities Support Services Contract for Ames Research Center 

CONTRACT RELEASE NASA has selected Chugach Intelligence Solutions LLC to provide comprehensive operations, maintenance, and repair…

NASA’s Chandra and IXPE Study Pulsar in Lighthouse Nebula

Scientists using NASA’s IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer) directly measured the magnetic fields of PSR J1101−6101,…

NASA Invites Media to Roman Space Telescope, Crew-13 Launches

Media accreditation now is open for the launch of NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope and…