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NASA & Agencies
ISRO Clears Fifth Parachute Airdrop Test for Gaganyaan's Uncrewed Debut
ISRO dropped a dummy-loaded main parachute from 2.5 km over Madhya Pradesh on July 7, the fifth test in a series meant to qualify the ten-parachute system that will bring Gaganyaan's crew module down into the sea.
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Military Space
Space Force Adds Impulse Space and Relativity Federal to Its $5.6 Billion Launch Roster
Space Systems Command admitted Impulse Space and Relativity's Relativity Federal to NSSL Phase 3 Lane 1 on July 7, growing the qualified-provider pool to seven and handing each a $5 million task order.
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Science & Discovery
A 20-Year Argument Over the Bullet Cluster's Mass Just Got Settled — by Webb and a Ground-Based Camera
A joint JWST-DECam lensing study pins the Bullet Cluster's mass ratio at 10.14-to-1, ending two decades of dueling estimates and confirming it's a minor merger, not the near-equal collision often assumed.
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Commercial
The World's First Commercial Nuclear-Powered Satellite Just Reached Orbit
Miami-based City Labs flew its tritium-powered BOHR CubeSat on SpaceX's Transporter-17, becoming the first commercial mission to clear the FAA's NSPM-20 nuclear-launch pathway with Sandia's safety sign-off.
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Missions
Firefly Wins $13 Million NASA Contract to Build the Heat Shield for a Helicopter Swarm Bound for Mars
Firefly Aerospace will build the aeroshell for NASA's SkyFall mission, which plans to release three Ingenuity-derived helicopters mid-air over Mars in 2028 without ever landing a platform.
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NASA & Agencies
Japan and Singapore Sign Their First-Ever Space Pact — and Singapore's Three-Month-Old Space Agency Gets Its Debut Deal
JAXA and Singapore's brand-new National Space Agency signed a memorandum in Tokyo covering quantum satellite links and industrial cooperation — NSAS's first international agreement, three months after it was founded.
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Military Space
Does the Space Force Need Its Own Lawyers? The Senate Wants an Answer by December 2027
The Senate's draft FY2027 NDAA orders a formal study into whether the Space Force still needs to borrow Air Force lawyers, with findings due by December 1, 2027.
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Astronomy
Euclid Space Telescope Uncovers 31 Ancient Quasars, Two From the Universe's First 5 Percent
ESA's Euclid telescope has spotted 31 quasars from the early universe, including two dating to just 670 million years after the Big Bang, deepening a puzzle over how supermassive black holes grew so fast.
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Missions
CAPSTONE, the Microwave-Sized Pathfinder, Signs Off After Four Years at the Moon
NASA's CAPSTONE, the first U.S. commercial lunar mission, has wrapped its NASA-sponsored work after nearly four years, having proven a spacecraft can navigate itself near the Moon using nothing but a camera image of the Moon and Earth.
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Stargazing
July Skies: Earth's Aphelion, a Saturn-Moon Pairing, and Comet Tempel 2 Brightening
Earth swings out to its farthest point from the Sun this week even as July's night sky delivers a Moon-Saturn close pass, a four-body dawn alignment, and a comet edging toward binocular visibility.
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NASA & Agencies
Mystery Metal Spheres Wash Up on Queensland Beach — Australian Space Agency Says They're Rocket Debris
Six silver spheres that washed ashore near Townsville over the weekend are pressure vessels from a foreign rocket body, the Australian Space Agency says, warning residents not to touch any similar debris.
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Commercial
SpaceX's Transporter-17 Sends 81 Satellites—Including Three Wildfire-Spotting FireSats—Into Orbit
A midnight Falcon 9 launch from Vandenberg deployed 81 satellites for five nations, headlined by three FireSat wildfire detectors, a Navy tech demo, an in-space 3D printer, and the UAE's first navigation satellite.
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