SpaceNews.com
• Jeff Foust
Since 2019, the Russian-built Zvezda service module has been venting ISS air through hairline cracks, at times losing about 1.7 kg of atmosphere per day. NASA auditors now classify it as the ISS’s highest open safety risk, leading crews to prepare for a spacewalk to address related station-health concerns.
Space.com
• Tariq Malik
By Space.com: NASA's daring Swift Boost mission launches June 27 to save the nearly 22-year-old Swift observatory , which is being dragged out of space by Earth's atmosphere.
Payload
• Douglas Gorman
By Payload: Crustdata found that ~1,330 SpaceX alumni have founded new ventures after leaving the company. Collectively, these founders have raised $9.2B to date.
Universe Today
• Mark Thompson
By Universe Today: When Artemis II swept around the far side of the Moon this April, carrying the first humans beyond Earth orbit in more than fifty years, NASA had prepared its four astronauts for something more than flying the spacecraft.
Space.com
• Josh Dinner
By Space.com: Rocket Lab is poised to launch the "Ten Owl of Ten" mission from New Zealand today (June 26), adding to Japanese company Synspective's imaging constellation.
NASA
• Leejay Lockhart
By NASA: NASA has selected Rocket Lab to provide the launch service for both the agency’s PolSIR (Polarized Submillimeter Ice-cloud Radiometer) and Total and Spectral Solar Irradiance Sensor-2 (TSIS-2) missions.
SpaceNews.com
SpaceNews.com
• Jeff Foust
By SpaceNews.com: The African nation of Botswana is the latest country to sign the Artemis Accords outlining best practices for space exploration.
Reuters
• Joey Roulette
By Reuters: SpaceX plans to begin next month building an eight‑mile (13-km) natural gas pipeline called "Starpipe" to its Texas launch facilities, according to county filings, as Elon Musk’s company seeks to ramp up launches of its next‑generation Starship rocket.
European Spaceflight
• Andrew Parsonson
