European Spaceflight
• Andrew Parsonson
Italy has launched its IRIDE Earth observation service marketplace, providing initial access to Earth-observation imagery and analytics for Italian government users. The rollout marks a first operational opening of the platform’s data and analytic capabilities aimed at supporting government decision-making with EO products.
Space.com
• Tereza Pultarova
By Space.com: A space thruster using superconducting magnets completed its first orbital tests. The technology could in the future propel spacecraft using just the power of the sun.
Space.com
• Chelsea Gohd
By Space.com: NASA's new alien-hunting telescope, the Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO), will be serviceable out in space.
SpaceNews.com
By SpaceNews.com: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia – June, 2026 The Centre for Space Futures (CSF), together with leading international partners including Novaspace, and SpaceTech Gulf, have signed a Memorandum of Cooperation (MoC) to jointly develop a Global Space Capability Mapping and Index Dashboard.
SpaceNews.com
• Andrew Jones
By SpaceNews.com: China’s Tianwen-2 sample return spacecraft has arrived at Kamoʻoalewa, revealing the near Earth asteroid to be a small, elongated rocky body.
SpaceWatch Global
• Joshua Faleti
By SpaceWatch Global: The Africa-Europe Space Partnership Program has unveiled a GMV-led initiative to develop a scalable Earth observation mission delivering socio-economic benefits across Africa, with Space in Africa, Astrofica Technologies, LocateIT, and Alén Space.
SpaceWatch Global
• Judith Delany
By SpaceWatch Global: As Apophis approaches Earth in 2029, DART, Hera and RAMSES reveal how science, technology and global cooperation are transforming planetary defence.
SpaceNews.com
• Jeff Foust
By SpaceNews.com: NASA is partnering with the U.S. Small Business Administration on an effort to attract capital to invest in companies producing critical space components.
