Space.com
• Chelsea Gohd
NASA’s new exoplanet “alien-hunting” telescope, the Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO), will be serviceable once it is on orbit. The move shifts a key implementation question to how NASA will carry out or enable servicing in space.
SpaceNews.com
By SpaceNews.com: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia – June, 2026 The Centre for Space Futures (CSF), together with leading international partners including Novaspace, and SpaceTech Gulf, have signed a Memorandum of Cooperation (MoC) to jointly develop a Global Space Capability Mapping and Index Dashboard.
SpaceNews.com
• Andrew Jones
By SpaceNews.com: China’s Tianwen-2 sample return spacecraft has arrived at Kamoʻoalewa, revealing the near Earth asteroid to be a small, elongated rocky body.
SpaceWatch Global
• Joshua Faleti
By SpaceWatch Global: The Africa-Europe Space Partnership Program has unveiled a GMV-led initiative to develop a scalable Earth observation mission delivering socio-economic benefits across Africa, with Space in Africa, Astrofica Technologies, LocateIT, and Alén Space.
SpaceWatch Global
• Judith Delany
By SpaceWatch Global: As Apophis approaches Earth in 2029, DART, Hera and RAMSES reveal how science, technology and global cooperation are transforming planetary defence.
SpaceNews.com
• Jeff Foust
By SpaceNews.com: NASA is partnering with the U.S. Small Business Administration on an effort to attract capital to invest in companies producing critical space components.
SpaceNews.com
• Jeff Foust
By SpaceNews.com: The European Space Agency has selected Airbus Defence and Space to start work on the successor to a wind-monitoring satellite.
Space.com
• Josh Dinner
By Space.com: A new rover prototype is teaching NASA scientists how to design robots that can think for themselves and navigate terrain that would leave old rovers stuck in the lunar or Martian dust.
