Space.com
• Mike Wall
SpaceX experienced its second consecutive last-second abort on July 20, halting an attempted Falcon 9 launch carrying Starlink broadband satellites. The event marks a back-to-back disruption to scheduled launch activity tied to the ongoing Starlink deployment campaign.
Space.com
• Josh Dinner
By Space.com: NASA's Artemis III mission is shaping up to be NASA's most complex mission in history, coordinating the launch and rendezvous of three different spacecraft.
By satnews.com: On Monday, July 20, 2026, ThinKom Solutions, Inc. announced that its ThinAir GT2517 airborne terminal successfully completed the SES Government Technology Certification (GTC) program.
Space.com
• Aparna Venkatesan
By Space.com: The Artemis II astronauts reminded us that they considered it the honor of a lifetime to go to the moon for us - and as us - while transmitting daily that they couldn’t wait to come home to us.
European Spaceflight
• Andrew Parsonson
By European Spaceflight: The UK Space Agency has delayed the award of a £75.6 million contract for a mission that will capture and remove two defunct satellites from low Earth orbit.
Space.com
• Charles Q. Choi
By Space.com: The costs of space launch have fallen 96% in the past six decades and have the potential to plummet by nearly as much by 2040, a new study finds.
SpaceNews.com
• Andrew Jones
By SpaceNews.com: A six-month-old Chinese startup aiming to use artificial intelligence to compress rocket engine development cycles has raised $29.5 million in angel funding.
SpaceWatch Global
• Torsten Kriening
By SpaceWatch Global: Skyroot Aerospace reached a 453 km orbit on the first flight of Vikram-1, making India the third nation with private orbital launch capability.
