Universe Today
• Laurence Tognetti
Roman Telescope’s massive infrared mirror is reported as ready to fly, marking a key hardware milestone for the mission’s exoplanet and dusty-disk imaging work. The readiness step follows the program’s earlier move into pre-launch assembly and timeline positioning.
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.
European Spaceflight
• Andrew Parsonson
By European Spaceflight: ASI is using the Italian Navy's 95-year-old tall ship to study how the human body could respond to the stresses of long-duration spaceflight.
SpaceNews.com
• Jeff Foust
By SpaceNews.com: FAA documents have provided new details about a SpaceX project for reentry vehicles that could be used to support in-space manufacturing projects.
Flying Magazine
• Jack Daleo
By Flying Magazine: After an initial series of lower speed test flights, NASA and Lockheed Martin's X-59 is nearly ready to go supersonic.
Space.com
• Robert Z. Pearlman
By Space.com: SpaceX launched 29 Starlink satellites from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Friday (May 29), about 12 hours after Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket exploded on a different pad at the site.
European Spaceflight
• Andrew Parsonson
By European Spaceflight: ESA has greenlit its HiBiDiS and SOVA-S Scout missions, a mission class designed to be developed within three years for no more than €35 million.
SpaceWatch Global
• Joshua Faleti
SpaceWatch Global
• Tamara Blagojevic
Wall Street Journal
• Aylin Woodward
