Launch Preview: Swift rescue mission, final Atlas satellite launch

Editor’s note: This release was updated on June 30, 2026, to clarify the engineering development version for the PROMISE rover. NASA announced Tuesday the selection of three companies to land four new missions on the Moon in late 2028 as part of the agency’s Moon Base Program. Astrobotic, Firefly Aerospace, and Intuitive Machines will deliver…

United Launch Alliance (ULA) will launch another batch of Amazon’s internet satellites to orbit early Thursday morning (July 2), and you can watch it live. An Atlas V rocket carrying 29 Amazon Leo spacecraft is scheduled to lift off from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Thursday, during a 29-minute window that opens at…

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Understanding how atoms form is a fundamental and important question, since they make up everything with mass. The question of where atoms come from requires a lot of physics to be answered completely – and even then, physicists like me only have good guesses to explain how some atoms are formed. What is an atom?…

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Space Force has placed into operational service a new mobile satellite-jamming system capable of temporarily disrupting an adversary’s communications. The electronic warfare system, known as Meadowlands and built by L3Harris Technologies, uses radio-frequency signals to interfere with an adversary satellite’s ability to transmit information. Unlike anti-satellite weapons designed to physically destroy…

Three new contracts are going to companies that will be building a series of lunar landers. From left to right: Astrobotic’s Griffin lander, Intuitive Machines’ Nova-C, and Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost. Astrobotic / Firefly / Intuitive Machines On June 30th, NASA announced additional details about its new plans for the Moon. The agency announced new…