Space.com
• Julian Dossett
California-based Auxilium Biotechnologies reports the first in-space bioprinting of kidney and liver tissue, using off-Earth bioprinting methods designed to enable tissue growth beyond Earth-based constraints. The milestone signals a potential step toward more practical space medicine and in-orbit biological manufacturing.
Universe Today
• Matthew Williams
By Universe Today: Wally Funk, an aviation pioneer who was the oldest woman to launch into space, has died. She was 87.
Runway Girl
• Mary Kirby
By Runway Girl: Viasat is in the home stretch to offering inflight connectivity over its new ultra-high-capacity Ka-band GEO satellites, ViaSat-3 F2 and F3.
SpaceWatch Global
• Torsten Kriening
By SpaceWatch Global: ISU France liquidated by court order on 7 July 2026. SpaceWatch.Global Publisher and ISU alumnus Torsten Kriening traces the 127-day timeline from crisis to collapse and asks what went wrong.
SpaceNews.com
• Sandra Erwin
By SpaceNews.com: WASHINGTON — Small satellites have become a staple of military space programs because they are relatively inexpensive and quick to build.
Bloomberg
• Bloomberg News
By Bloomberg: China successfully landed an orbital-class reusable booster at sea for the first time, making it the second nation to achieve the technological milestone following the US.
European Spaceflight
• Andrew Parsonson
By European Spaceflight: ESA has awarded EMXYS a contract to build the Don Quijote lander, which will take measurements from the surface of an asteroid during its close encounter with Earth.
New York Times
• Richard Goldstein
By New York Times: As a young woman in the 1960s, she wasn’t allowed to become a NASA astronaut. She finally realized her long-held dream of flying in space as an octogenarian.
SpaceWatch Global
• Abreu Advogados, Atlantic Spaceport Consortium
SpaceWatch Global
• Torsten Kriening
European Spaceflight
• Andrew Parsonson
