SpaceNews.com
• Andrew Jones
China conducted the maiden launch of the reusable Long March 12B without advance warning, placing operational payloads into orbit on its debut flight. The mission delivered Qianfan satellites, underscoring continued expansion of China’s reusable launch capability and near-term satellite deployment cadence.
SpaceNews.com
• Jeff Foust
By SpaceNews.com: The explosion of a New Glenn rocket has generated reverberations across the space industry with the rocket out of service for potentially a year or more.
SpaceNews.com
• Andrew Jones
By SpaceNews.com: China capped a busy month of launches by sending four new satellite internet test satellites into orbit with a workhorse hypergolic rocket.
SpaceWatch Global
• Torsten Kriening
By SpaceWatch Global: Marble Imaging expands into Asia with a Taiwan MoU and a Japan partnership with JSI, targeting maritime security and dual-use Earth observation demand.
SpaceWatch Global
• Joshua Faleti
By SpaceWatch Global: Rocket Lab USA has successfully passed System Requirements Review for the Space Development Agency's Tracking Layer Tranche 3 constellation.
Universe Today
• Laurence Tognetti
By Universe Today: It’s June 2027, and you’re fresh off defending your PhD studying the direct imaging of exoplanets while starting your postdoctoral journey at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
NASA Spaceflight
• Martijn Luinstra
By NASA Spaceflight: Using the joint NASA/European Space Agency/Canadian Space Agency James Webb Space Telescope, an international team of astronomers has performed the first direct measurement of a supermassive black hole in the early universe.
Universe Today
• Mark Thompson
By Universe Today: We are closer than ever to detecting signs of life on another world. The James Webb Space Telescope is already ‘sniffing’ alien atmospheres, and the Habitable Worlds Observatory is being built specifically to find biology beyond Earth.
Wall Street Journal
• Aylin Woodward
