NASA Spaceflight
• Eleanor Day
SpaceX will launch Transporter‑16 from California to deploy 119 payloads into Sun‑synchronous orbit. The Falcon 9 rideshare mission assembles a large small‑satellite manifest for polar SSO insertion, reinforcing SpaceX’s role as a primary provider for commercial microsatellite and technology demonstrations.
Universe Today
• Mark Thompson
By Universe Today: Finding another Earth is one of the greatest scientific challenges of our time and the biggest obstacle isn't the distance, it's the glare. An Earth like planet orbiting a Sun like star is ten billion times fainter than its host.
Universe Today
• Laurence Tognetti
By Universe Today: Asteroids don’t get the love they deserve. They don’t get “cool points” because they’re not a planet or a potential life-harboring moon. They’re “just a bunch of rocks”.
SpaceNews.com
• Jeff Foust
By SpaceNews.com: Starfish Space has changed plans for a docking demonstration mission after its original partner backed out.
European Spaceflight
• Andrew Parsonson
By European Spaceflight: ESA Member States have called for the cancellation of the Earth Return Orbiter, with the agency to explore reusing some elements.
Associated Press
By Associated Press: The astronaut who prompted NASA's first medical evacuation earlier this year says doctors still don't know why he suddenly fell sick at the International Space Station.
Space.com
• Samantha Mathewson
By Space.com: The launch window for Artemis 2 opens on April 1 and runs through April 6. Here's what time you'll need to tune in.
Payload
• Jacqueline Feldscher
By Payload: NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman has one message: Get in, we’re going to the Moon.
Space Intel Report
• Peter B de Selding
SpaceNews.com
• Jason Rainbow
Wall Street Journal
• Alexander Saeedy, Suzanne Vranica
New York Times
• Dennis Overbye