NASA Spaceflight
• Ryan Weber
Starship Flight 13 demonstrated that Ship 40 can complete its mission and return intact, surviving water impact without destruction. SpaceX said the booster is still a work in progress, as it continues refining the clean-sheet Block 3 design for subsequent flights.
Space.com
• Robert Z. Pearlman
By Space.com: A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying 24 Starlink satellites lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on Saturday, July 25, 2026.
Payload
• Victoria Woodburn
By Payload: The White House released a sweeping vision for the nation's R&D enterprise, with significant implications for space sciences.
Space Intel Report
• Peter B. de Selding
By Space Intel Report: TUPPER LAKE, NY — Viasat Inc. had $291.4 million in satellite construction payments due in the next five years as of March 31 and another $509.8 million in future commitments to purchase satellites capacity from third-party fleet operators, Viasat said in its 2026 annual report.
Bloomberg
• Bailey Lipschultz
By Bloomberg: SpaceX shares bounced back after temporarily erasing one-fifth of their value from the record setting debut of Elon Musk’s rocket, satellite and artificial intelligence company, as investors shunned riskier technology firms.
Space.com
• Leonard David
By Space.com: Africa's first space exploration mission aims to send a trio of spherical probes to the lunar south pole aboard China's Chang'e 8 lander in 2029.
SpaceNews.com
• Jeff Foust
By SpaceNews.com: NASA has selected Advanced Space to fly a successor to a cislunar smallsat mission that will test rendezvous and proximity operations around the moon.
Payload
• Victoria Woodburn
By Payload: Amazon is entering the D2D game after filing a request with the FCC to launch over 5,000 LEO satellites.
Space Intel Report
• Peter B. de Selding
Ars Technica
• Eric Berger
SpaceNews.com
• Sandra Erwin
