SpaceWeekly News Summary May 3 – May 9, 2026

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

NASA Science, Cargo Launch on 34th SpaceX Resupply Mission to Station

The 34th SpaceX commercial resupply mission under contract with NASA is headed to the International Space…

Asteroid 2026 JV3 passed Earth at 0.13 lunar distances

Asteroid 2026 JV3 passed Earth at a distance of 0.130 lunar distances (0.00034 AU / 50…

STEM On and Off the Air

05/08/2026 The Garden School Amateur Radio Club in Jackson Heights, New York, K2GSG, was started in…

Learn More About SDR

05/08/2026 The Boston Software Defined Radio User Group, SDR-Boston, is hosting the New England Workshop for…

Curiosity Shakes Loose a Pesky Rock

NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover used its Mast Camera, or Mastcam, to capture this view of a…

Hamvention 2026 Thursday — Setup Day and Much More

05/15/2026 Hamvention® 2026 in Xenia, Ohio, officially begins on Friday morning, May 15. But several hundred…

SpaceX is about to launch tallest and most powerful rocket in history

Starship on the launchpad at SpaceX’s Starbase in Texas SpaceX SpaceX will fly an extensively upgraded…

ESA – Preparing Smile for space

Before Smile can begin studying how Earth responds to the streams of particles and bursts of…

ESA – Preparing Smile for space

Before Smile can begin studying how Earth responds to the streams of particles and bursts of…

Exploring IV fluid production in space

In this timelapse, ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot is seen working inside the Life Science Glovebox of the…