SpaceWeekly News Summary May 3 – May 9, 2026

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

What NASA Needs to Stay on Track for the Moon

NASA needs many things to happen before it can try to land humans on the moon…

LINK Spacecraft Set for Mission to Boost NASA’s Swift Observatory

A Katalyst engineer runs tests on LINK while the satellite is inside the Pegasus XL rocket…

Call for Nominations for ARRL Director and Vice Director

07/01/2026 Attention: Full ARRL members in the ATLANTIC, DAKOTA, DELTA, GREAT LAKES, and MIDWEST Divisions. You…

X1.1 solar flare produces Earth-directed CME, G2 geomagnetic storm watch issued for July 3

NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC) issued a G2 – Moderate Geomagnetic Storm Watch at 12:40…

The Vera Rubin Telescope Begins Surveying Our Cosmos

The largest digital camera on Earth has finally started filming a motion picture of our universe.…

Webb studies how a planet survived the death of its star

Science & Exploration 01/07/2026 16 views 2 likes An international team of astronomers has used the…

Curiosity, Perseverance and Now Promise? NASA May Send a Mars Rover to the Moon.

NASA has a spare Mars rover that it hopes to send to the moon, officials at…

NASA Aims to Catch a Falling Space Telescope and Push It Back Up

UPDATE, July 1, 2006: The launch of the mission to boost the Swift Observatory was again…

XMM-Newton helps revise distance to outer spiral arms

Science & Exploration 01/07/2026 89 views 1 likes The European Space Agency’s XMM-Newton and NASA’s Chandra…

ESA – The space under

Science & Exploration 01/07/2026 23 views 0 likes Five explorers from three space agencies have successfully…