Space.com
• Josh Dinner
NASA is positioning Artemis III as its most complex mission to date, requiring tight coordination across the launch and rendezvous of three different spacecraft. With a crew of four planned and an early two-week in-orbit phase, mission design and integration timelines become central to execution.
Space.com
• Mike Wall
By Space.com: SpaceX suffered its second last-second abort in a row this morning (July 20), this time during an attempted Falcon 9 launch of Starlink broadband satellites.
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.
SpaceWatch Global
• Joshua Faleti
By SpaceWatch Global: Mauritius has joined the U.S. led Artemis Accords, becoming the 70th signatory and seventh African country to join the Artemis Accords.
