SpaceWatch Global
• Joshua Faleti
ESA has awarded ispace-EUROPE an execution contract for the second phase of the MAGPIE (Mission for Advanced Geophysics and Polar Ice Exploration) program. The agreement advances ESA’s lunar polar ice exploration efforts through the next development and delivery step under the broader MAGPIE contract structure.
SpaceWatch Global
• Joshua Faleti
By SpaceWatch Global: Voyager renews partnership with Reditus Space to deliver end-to-end microgravity mission services aboard the latter's ENOS reentry vehicle.
SpaceWatch Global
• Guest Author
By SpaceWatch Global: Karolina Sarna examines why commercial Earth Observation remains trapped in project-based delivery and what is needed to build the institutional layer that enables scalable EO markets.
Payload
• Victoria Woodburn
By Payload: SpaceX flew the 13th test flight of its Starship rocket Friday evening, ending with the first intact Starship put in the water.
Bloomberg
• Yash Roy
By Bloomberg: The Exploration Company Gmbh, a potential European rival to Elon Musk’s SpaceX, is in talks to raise at least $300 million, in part from the European Union’s Scaleup Europe Fund, bumping the company’s valuation to more than $2 billion, the Financial Times reported.
Associated Press
• Leer En Español
By Associated Press: A U.S.-Russian space crew landed safely in the steppes of Kazakhstan on Sunday after an eight-month stint on the International Space Station.
SpaceNews.com
• Jeff Foust
By SpaceNews.com: Key ground stations in Spain operated by NASA and the European Space Agency have avoided serious damage from major wildfires in the country.
Space.com
• Mike Wall
By Space.com: NASA astronaut Chris Williams and two Russian cosmonauts will return to Earth from the International Space Station early Sunday morning (July 26), and you can watch their homecoming live.
Ars Technica
• Stephen Clark
