SpaceWatch Global
• Joshua Faleti
NASA has released a draft request for proposal (RFP) to solicit feedback from U.S. industry on the next phase of its commercial space stations strategy. The input process is intended to shape the follow-on procurement approach for developing and operating commercial space station capabilities.
SpaceNews.com
• Jeff Foust
By SpaceNews.com: A new crew arrived at the International Space Station on July 14 on a launch witnessed in person by NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman.
SpaceWatch Global
• Joshua Faleti
By SpaceWatch Global: Governments around the world invested €119 billion in 2025 in the space industry, according to ESA's Space Economy Report.
Bloomberg
• Thomas Black
By Bloomberg: SpaceX’s willingness to blow stuff up and learn from the failures has propelled it from a cash-strapped startup to one of the world’s most valuable companies (and kick-started a commercial space revolution along the way).
Universe Today
• Mark Thompson
By Universe Today: After chasing a small asteroid across a billion kilometres of space, China's Tianwen-2 probe has finally caught up, closing to within twenty kilometres of its target and beginning detailed scientific study.
Bloomberg
• Bailey Lipschultz, Carmen Reinicke
By Bloomberg: Three days of losses have brought SpaceX shares to the brink of falling below their initial public offering price, a key level that traders and investors watch to assess the health of new issues.
Space.com
• Robert Z. Pearlman
By Space.com: SpaceX launched Starlink satellites on a pair of Falcon 9 rockets eight hours apart from opposite coasts on July 13-14, 2026. The second launch was the 600th use of a flight-proven booster.
Via Satellite
• Mark Holmes
By Via Satellite: Honeywell Aerospace will lead a consortium to develop a compact quantum space magnetometer to advance research into Earth’s magnetic field.
