Ooit leken Trump en Elon twee handen op één buik, maar na de escalatie deze week lijkt dat voorgoed voorbij. 't Was in zekere zin grappig om te zien, maar anderzijds - als we ons beperken tot de ruimtevaart - kan het misschien grotere gevolgen hebben, voor SpaceX, voor NASA, voor de Amerikaanse ruimtevaart. Het NASA-budget voor FY2026, waarvan nu de details bekend zijn, wordt op heel wat kritiek onthaald. En ook voor ispace was het niet meteen een leuke week. Ook hun tweede maanlander maakte een crash. Dat en nog veel meer in het Nieuws Uit De Ruimtevaart van deze week.

Bij de foto: Toen zag het er nog goed uit. De ispace-maanlander begon aan zijn afdaling en aan de binnenkomende telemetrie leek alles goed te gaan. Maar plots leek de lander te versnellen en was het gedaan. Meer detail verderop in deze NUDR. Foto: ispace.

Belgisch ruimtevaartnieuws. 

ESERO – De CanSat finale.
ESERO Belgium (filmpje): CanSat Finale 2024-2025 | STEM-project mini-satellieten door leerlingen | Raketlancering Elsenborn.
Meer over CanSat vind je hier.
Op hun facebook-groep vind je nog meer info en beelden.

ESERO – ASGARD – Met een ballon “de ruimte” in.
ESERO Belgium (filmpje): STEM-project voor leerkrachten wetenschappen: ASGARD lanceert experimenten naar de ruimte.
Beelden van de “lancering” (15 mei) vind je hier.
KMI: Onderwijsproject Asgard: Het plateau van Ukkel verwelkomt een honderdtal studenten voor een wetenschappelijke dag.
Meer over ASGARD vind je hier.
Op hun facebook-groep vind je nog meer info en beelden

De lanceringen van de afgelopen week.

03.06.2025 – RocketLab lanceert “Full Stream Ahead” – BlackSky.
RocketLab: Rocket Lab Successfully Launches 10th Electron Mission for Multi-Launch Customer BlackSky.
De persmap vind je hier (PDF).

Space News: Rocket Lab launches BlackSky satellite.
Spaceflight Now: Rocket Lab launches BlackSky’s next Gen-3 satellite on Electron rocket from New Zealand.

Filmpjes:
RocketLab: Rocket Lab - 'Full Stream Ahead' Launch.
SciNews: Electron launches the second BlackSky Gen-3 satellite.

03.06.2025 – SpaceX lanceert Starlink-satellieten Group 12-19 (CCSFS).
Spaceflight Now: SpaceX scrubs Monday morning launch of 23 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral.
Spaceflight Now: SpaceX launches midnight hour Starlink mission from Florida.
SpaceCom: SpaceX launches 23 more Starlink satellites from Florida.

Zie ook de info bij SpaceX.

Filmpjes:
SpaceX via X: Watch Falcon 9 launch 23 Starlink satellites to orbit from Florida, including 13 with Direct to Cell capabilities.
SciNews: SpaceX Starlink 268 launch and Falcon 9 first stage landing, 3 June 2025.

04.06.2025 – SpaceX lanceert Starlink-satellieten Group 11-22 (VSFB).
Spaceflight Now: SpaceX launches 500th orbital Falcon rocket on 15th anniversary of the Falcon 9.
SpaceCom: SpaceX launches Starlink satellite stack from Vandenberg Space Force Base.
Zie ook de info bij SpaceX.

Filmpjes:
SpaceX via X: Watch Falcon 9 launch 27 Starlink  satellites to orbit from California.
SciNews: SpaceX Starlink 269 launch and Falcon 9 first stage landing, 4 June 2025.

05.06.2025 – Chinese Lange Mars 6A lanceert satellieten voor G60-constellatie – Group 04.
Space News: China launches fourth group of Guowang megaconstellation satellites.

Filmpjes:
CCTV: China Successfully Launches New Group of Internet Satellites.
CGTN: Long March-6A carrier rocket flies over Chang'an Tower at sunrise.
SciNews: Long March-6A launches SatNet LEO Group 04.

07.06.2025 – SpaceX lanceert SXM-10 (CCSFS).
SpaceCom: SpaceX launches Sirius XM radio satellite to orbit, lands rocket on ship at sea.
Spaceflight Now: SpaceX launches SXM-10 satellite for SiriusXM on Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral.
Zie ook de info bij SpaceX.

Filmpjes:
SpaceX via X: Watch Falcon 9 launch the SiriusXM SXM-10 mission to orbit.
SciNews: Falcon 9 launches SXM-10 and Falcon 9 first stage landing.
SciNews: SiriusXM SXM-10 deployment.

Te verwachten lanceringen.

10.06.2025 – Axiom 4 / Ignis.
SpaceCom: SpaceX's next private astronaut launch to ISS, Ax-4, pushed back to June 10.
NASA: NASA Sets Coverage for Axiom Mission 4 Launch, Arrival at Station.
SpaceCom: Brand-new SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule arrives at pad for June 10 astronaut launch.

Een kort overzicht van de missie vind je in dit Axiom-document of via deze Axiom Mission 4 website.

Collect Space: 'Joy,' a plush baby swan, to launch with Ax-4 crew as zero-g indicator.

CBS News (filmpje): Peggy Whitson on her space legacy and commanding a new mission for Axiom.

The Times of India: Ax-4 mission will see around 60 experiments, including 7 led by ISRO.
The Hindu: Indian astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla set for space travel in May.
The Times Of India: Indian astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla undergoes groundbreakng altitude training for Ax-4 mission preparation.
The Hindu: Indian astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla’s mission to International Space Station postponed to June 10.
NASA: NASA, ISRO Research Aboard Fourth Private Astronaut Mission to Station.

ESA: Tree planting for Ignis.
ESA: Ignis science.
ESA: Countdown to Ignis.
ESA (filmpje): Columbus Control Centre prepares for Ignis.

Axiom Space: First Axiom Space-Tested Aspera Biomedicines Drug Advances Toward Clinical Trials.
NASA: NASA Provides Hardware for Space Station DNA Repair Experiment.
ISS National Lab: New Wearable Tech Tracks Astronauts’ Sleep Quality on International Space Station
ISS National Lab: New Space-Based Research May Pave the Way for First Astronaut with Diabetes

NASA – Houston we have a podcast: Private Astronaut Mission Management.

Filmpjes:
Axiom: Meet Ax-4.
Axiom: Ax-4 Food Tasting.
Axiom: Ax-4 Training | A Day in Orbit.
Axiom: Ax-4 Training | Safety In Space.
Axiom: Ax-4 CAPCOM Training.
Axiom: Ax-4 Altitude Chamber Training.
Axiom: Ax-4 Underwater Escape Training.
Axiom: Ax-4 Crew Send-off (quaratine).
Axiom Space: Ax-4 Mission | Science on the Mission.
Axiom Space: Ax-4 Mission | Mission Overview Press Conference.
Axiom Space: Ax-4 Mission | Crew Countdown To Launch.

Raketnieuws.

28.05.2025 – Chinese Sepoch doet geslaagde landingtest met testversie Hiker-raket – YXZ1.
Zie ook vorige NUDR.
PhysOrg: Reusable Chinese rocket soft-lands in the ocean in a new test.

Filmpje:
SciNews: Yuanxingzhe-1 - the first recovery test of the first stage.

Testvlucht Europese Themis eerst in 2026.
European Spaceflight: First Themis Test Flight Likely to Slip to 2026.

Upgrade v/d Amerikaanse lanceerbasissen – Een contract van 4 miljard dollar.
Space News: Commercial space companies to fund launch range upgrades under $4 billion contract.

Een terugblik op Reaction Engines.
BBC: The British jet engine that failed in the 'Valley of Death'.

Bemande ruimtevaart / Ruimtestations.

Wie op Starliner zit te wachten, gaat nog wat geduld moeten hebben.
Spaceflight Now: Further delays of Starliner’s next flight mark anniversary of its first crewed Space Station docking.

ISS – De blogentries.
NASA ISS Blog: Crew Preps for Fourth Axiom Private Mission, Keeps up Human Research.
NASA ISS Blog: Axiom Mission 4 Targets Launch No Earlier than Tuesday, June 10.
NASA ISS Blog: Station Prepares for Axiom Mission 4, Studies How Body Adapts to Space.
NASA ISS Blog: Blood, Oxygen Research for Crew Health, and Axiom Preps Fill Day.
NASA ISS Blog: Astronauts Update Science Software and Hardware Keeping Up Ongoing Space Research.
NASA ISS Blog: Space Physics, Biology Studies Wrap Week Aboard Space Station.

ISS – Meer nieuws uit het ruimtestation.
NASA: Zero Gravity Indicators: Plushies in Space!

Air & Space Forces: This Space Force Astronaut §Hague – Crew 9) Wants to See More Troops in Orbit.
NASA: NASA Astronaut Jeanette Epps Retires.

Reuters: Russia plans to integrate homegrown AI model into space station

Filmpjes:
NASA: Space to Ground: Building a Sustainable Economy: June 06, 2025.
NASA: NASA Marshall Team Helps ISS Crew with Science.

ROSS – Nieuws over het toekomstige Russische ruimtestation.
Russian Space Web: Roskosmos orders three Angara rockets for ROS project.

CSS – Meer nieuws uit het Chinese ruimtestation.

Filmpje:
CGTN: From Space with Love: Shenzhou-20 crew wishes China success at Expo 2025.

Naar de Maan (en Mars).

Artemis – Naar de Maan en Mars.
RedWire: Redwire Receives NASA Approval to Advance Cutting-Edge Manufacturing Technology for Building Infrastructure on Moon and Mars.

Universe Today: The Next Moon Landing Will Be in High-Definition.
SpaceCom: Europe stages a moon landing to learn how to photograph the real thing.

ESA: Nuclear rocket engine for Moon and Mars.
Space News: Lunar helium-3: separating market from marketing.
SpaceCom: Turning the Red Planet green? It's time to take terraforming Mars seriously, scientists say.

Filmpjes:
ESA: Could algae feed astronauts on Mars one day?
BIRA: STUCK IN THE DUST - How lunar dust impacts Moon exploration – DUSTER.
New Scientist: There’s $1 trillion of platinum on the moon - who will mine it first?

ILRS – China naar de Maan. En hoe zit het de Russen?
Inside Outer Space: Russia’s Robotic Moon Explorers: What’s Ahead?

Starship – Voorbereiden op IFT10.
Gizmodo: SpaceX’s Company Town May Force Its Residents to Leave Their Homes.
KUT News: Residents told new zoning rules coming to SpaceX rocket launch site in South Texas.
Vally Central: With support from SpaceX, city of Starbase blasts off.

SpaceCom: SpaceX fires up Super Heavy booster ahead of Starship's 10th test flight.
NSF: Booster 14 Reflies, SpaceX already preparing next vehicle for Primary Objectives.

Universe Today: Missions to Mars with the Starship Could Only Take Three Months.

Filmpjes:
LabPadre Space: Was Flight 9 A Success Or Failure? - SpaceX Weekly #169.
Scott Manley: Watch Starship Hot Staging From On-Board Cameras - Including Camera In The Engine Bay!
NSF: Second Attempt: SpaceX Performs Static Fire of Booster 16 for Starship Flight 10.
NSF: "Did the Booster just Hit the Stand??" | SpaceX Starbase.

Op ontdekking door het zonnestelsel.

05.06.2025 – ispace – Hakuto-R (Resilience / Tenacious) crasht op de Maan.
Voor de “landing”:
Space News: Second ispace mission ready for lunar landing attempt.
SpaceCom: Private Japanese spacecraft aims to land in the moon's 'Sea of Cold' this week.
SpaceCom: Japanese company ispace will attempt historic moon landing on June 5.
SpaceCom: What time will Japan's ispace Resilience probe land on the moon on June 5?
ESA: ESA supports Moon mission carrying first European rover.

SpaceCom: ispace's Resilience spacecraft lands on the moon today: Here's how to see the landing zone on the lunar surface.
Japan Today: Private Japanese lunar lander heads toward moon touchdown.

De crash:
ispace: ispace Updates Timing for Expected Touchdown on the Lunar Surface to 4:17 a.m. JST.
ispace: Status Update on ispace Mission 2 SMBC x HAKUTO-R Venture Moon.

Japan Today: Private lunar lander from Japan crashes into moon in failed mission.
NSF: HAKUTO-R Mission 2 lost during landing attempt.
Spaceflight Now: As it happened: ispace makes second attempt at historic Moon landing.
Spaceflight Now: ispace’s Resilience lander crash lands on the Moon.
SpaceCom: Private Japanese spacecraft crashes into moon in 'hard landing,' ispace says.

Space News: Second ispace lunar lander presumed lost.

Ars Technica: A Japanese lander crashed on the Moon after losing track of its location.

Filmpjes:
ispace: ispace SMBC x HAKUTO-R VENTURE MOON: Live Landing Coverage.
ispace: ispace SMBC x HAKUTO-R VENTURE MOON: Post Landing Conference 6/6 9AM.
VideoFromSpace: Japanese company ispace will attempt historic moon landing - See lunar orbit view!
Spaceflight Now: Japan-based ispace makes second Moon landing attempt.
NSF (live): ispace Attempts Moon Landing with its HAKUTO-R Mission 2 Lunar Lander.
SciNews: Hakuto-R M2 Moon landing.
Scott Manley: Japan Crashes into The Moon, but Slower Than Last Time.
ispace: TENACIOUS Rover Documentary Episode 4.

ESA contract voor ispace – MAGPIE.
Ispace: ispace-EUROPE and the European Space Agency Sign Agreement for Phase 1 of Lunar Exploration Rover Mission (MAGPIE).
European Spaceflight: ESA Awards ispace New Contract for MAGPIE Moon Mission.

ESCAPADE met tweede New Glenn weldra dan toch naar Mars?
Space News: NASA’s ESCAPADE could launch on second New Glenn.

Meer nieuws uit de (inter)planetaire ruimte.

Venus:
Payload: NanoAvionics to Build Korea’s First Venus Observing Sat.
Space News: South Korea’s Venus-focused cubesat advances as larger missions face NASA cuts.

Aarde:
ESA: Mount Etna erupts
ESA (filmpje): Meet SMILE: The first mission to X-Ray Earth’s shield.
ESA: Earth from Space: Saharan dust plume.
Space News: Geospatial intelligence companies highlight Earth observation images.

Maan:
Rocket STEM: Landing on the Moon is still an incredibly difficult feat in 2025.
Firefly Aerospace (filmpje): Blue Ghost Moon Landing - 4 Incredible Angles of Firefly's Lunar Touchdown.

Mars:
NASA Curiosity Status Report: Sols 4556-4558: It’s All in a Day’s (box)Work.
NASA Curiosity Status Report: Sols 4559-4560: Drill Campaign — Searching for a Boxwork Bedrock Drill Site.
NASA Curiosity Status Report: Sols 4561-4562: Prepping to Drill at Altadena.
SpaceCom: Why does NASA's Perseverance rover keep taking pictures of this maze on Mars?
ESA: European Mars orbiter spies crumbling crater 'soaked in layers of Martian history' – Mars Express.
NASA: NASA Mars Orbiter Captures Volcano Peeking Above Morning Cloud Tops – ODYSSEY.
ESA (filmpje): Shooting for a Mars landing.
SETI (voordracht): Mars’ Ancient Carbon Cycle: How Rocks on Mars Tell the Story of a Vanishing Climate.

Saturnus:
Universe Today: Titan May be the Liveliest Place in the Solar System.
NSF: How Dragonfly will support the search for life on an uninhabitable world.

Planetoïden:
ESA: ESA’s new asteroid hunter opens its eye to the sky – Flyeye.
ESA: Visiting ESA's Flyeye telescope.
New China TV (filmpje): Xinhua News | Tianwen-2 probe operating smoothly in orbit: CNSA.
CGTN: China's Tianwen-2 unfurls giant umbrella in deep space.
Geïnteresseerd in een nieuwsbrief over Near Earth Objects. Meer info over ESA’s NEOCC vind je hier.
De recentste nieuwsbrief vind je hier (pdf).

Algemeen:
EuroPlanet (voordracht): Europlanet Webinar: The Chinese Planetary Exploration Programme and its Implications for Europe.

Meer ruimtevaartnieuws.

Vijftig jaar ESA.
Op 30 mei 1975 werd de ESA Conventie ondertekend door de 10 oprichtende landen. Waaronder België.
ESA: ESA is celebrating its 50th anniversary.

ESA: Special edition marks 50 years of the ESA Convention.
ESA: Marking 50 years of ESA with the digitised 1975 ESA Convention.
ESA: The drafting of the ESA Convention, or how to make a new space organisation (met een niet-onbelangrijke rol van de Belgen).
ESA: 30 May 1975: Rediscovering ESA’s day zero.
ESA: Signature of the Convention to entry in force: the last chapter in the creation of ESA.

ESA: Waltzing celebration for half a century of European satellite tracking.
ESA: Unique euro coins celebrate 50 years of ESA  (ook in het Nederlands).

ESA: ESA transmits the Blue Danube Waltz into deep space.

ESA: 50 Years of innovation – Celebrating ESA’s technology development element (PDF).

Space Daily: After 50 successful years, the European Space Agency has some big challenges ahead.
Collect Space: Euro coins released for European Space Agency's (ESA) 50 years.

Filmpje:
ESA: Elevating Europe in space for fifty years.
EUSPA: 9 EUSPA facts for Europe Day 2025.

NASA Budget FY2025 – De details bekend.
Space Policy Online: NASA copes with details of $6 billion budget cut, leadership uncertainty.
PhysOrg: Trump wants $1 billion for private-sector-led Mars exploration.
Payload: Trump Ditches Isaacman Amid Record NASA Cuts.
Sky & Telescope: Proposed NASA budget would gut space science, jobs.
NASA Watch: NASA Cuts Funding Support For Lunar, Planetary and Space Sciences Conferences.
Zie de reactie vanwege het ISSRDC – Official Statement from ISS National Lab Regarding ISSRDC 2025.
Space News: NASA withdraws support for conferences.
Universe Today: NASA's FY 2026 Budget Request has been Released.

NASA Watch: AIA Letter On NASA FY 2026 Budget Request.
NASA Watch: Letter from American Scientists Regarding NSF Advisory Committees Dissolution.

Space News: NASA’s budget crisis presents an opportunity for change.
The Space Review: NASA’s future in the balance

Ars Technica: US science is being wrecked, and its leadership is fighting the last war.
Ars Technica: Some parts of Trump’s proposed budget for NASA are literally draconian.
NASA Watch: NASA is already great. Right now.
NASA Watch: Stop Work Orders At NASA JPL

Space News: Cruz seeks $10 billion for NASA programs in budget reconciliation bill.
Inside Outer Space: Beating China to Mars and the Moon – Budget Reconciliation Text Release by Senator Ted Cruz.
Space Policy Online: Senate Committee wants to keep Gateway, SLS and Orion.

Filmpjes:
The Planetary Society: The dark age of NASA science? Analyzing the FY 2026 budget proposal - Planetary Radio.

Van dikste vriend tot grootste vijand? Trump vs Musk  (en Isaacman).
Ars Technica: New federal employees must praise Trump EOs, submit to continuous vetting.

De week begon nog rustig. Met Isaacman als “colaterale damage” na het vertrek van Musk.
Ars Technica: Jared Isaacman speaks out, and it’s clear that NASA lost a visionary leader.
Space News: Isaacman: people with ‘axes to grind’ about Musk caused withdrawn NASA nomination.

Nog wat andere berichten maar niks speciaals …  … … 
Space News: How NASA advisory committees are navigating a new political landscape.
MSNBC: Why the demise of Trump’s NASA pick is different from his other personnel failures.
Gizmodo: Elon Musk Says the New York Times Is Lying About His Rampant Drug Use.

… … …. En dan begonn de escalatie. Musk maakte gehakt van Trumps budget, en van het een kwam het ander.
NewsWeek: Elon Musk Calls Trump's Big Bill 'Disgusting Abomination'.
MSNBC: Elon Musk slams Trump's 'outrageous pork-filled' megabill, says its a 'disgusting abomination.
MSNBC: MaddowBlog: Trump floats terminating Elon Musk's government contracts in rapidly escalating feud.
Ars Technica: What would happen if Trump retaliated against Musk’s companies.
Politico: Mike Johnson scrambles to stop Elon Musk from torching the megabill.
Breaking Defense: Amid Trump, Musk blowup, canceling SpaceX contracts could cripple DoD launch program.
SpaceCom: Elon Musk says SpaceX could begin 'decommissioning its Dragon spacecraft' after Trump threat to cancel contracts.
Space Policy Online: Musk threatens to decommission Dragon amid feud with Trump.
Space News: Musk-Trump dispute includes threats to SpaceX contracts.

TASS: JD Vance could benefit from Trump and Musk’s feud, says expert.

Politico: Over the moon: How the Trump-Musk feud helps the lunar mission.
Space Daily: Trump-Musk showdown threatens US space plans.
Spacepage: Ruzie tussen Trump en Musk kan grote impact hebben op vlak van ruimtevaart.
BBC: Trump-Musk row fuels 'biggest crisis ever' at Nasa.

VRTNWS: "Lijkt van de pot gerukte ruzie, maar dit gaat om de 2 machtigste Amerikanen": Thomas De Graeve over ruzie tussen Trump en Musk.
VRTNWS: Wat staat in de 'big beautiful bill' die leidde tot de snoeiharde ruzie tussen Trump en Musk?
VRTNWS: Ruzie verre van bijgelegd: Trump zegt dat Musk "verstand heeft verloren", president wil zijn Tesla verkopen.

Al verwijderde Musk de dag nadien een aantal tweets.
The Guardian: Musk backs down on threat to retire SpaceX Dragon spacecraft amid Trump dispute.
VRTNWS: Elon Musk verwijdert bericht over Donald Trump en Jeffrey Epstein-schandaal op X.

Filmpje:
On Demand News: Watch Donald Trump Respond to Elon Musk Criticism in Extraordinary Press Conference.
PBS NewsHour: WATCH: Elon Musk wrong on tariffs and 'big, beautiful bill,' Trump advisor Navarro says.
On Demand News: Musk Threatens to Decommission Dragon Spacecraft After Row with Trump.
The Endles Void: Trump vs Musk: The Feud Shaking the U.S. Space Industry  (interview met Eric Berger).

Wie wordt de nieuwe NASA Administrator?
Inside Outer Space: New NASA Administrator Nominee: Steven Kwast?
Hij is o.a. medeoprichter van SpaceBilt.
Wat ze o.a. doen voor het ISS vind je op deze pagina.

NASA Watch: When Will NASA Have An Administrator?
NASA Watch: Acting NASA Administrator Janet Petro June 6, 2025.
NASA Watch: Is NASA Pivoting Toward Space Force?

Derde Varda-capsule terug op Aarde.
SpaceCom: That's a hat trick! Varda successfully returns 3rd space capsule from orbit.
Via Satellite: Varda Space Capsule Successfully Returns to Earth After Hypersonic Reentry Test.

Filmpje
RocketLab: From Sci-Fi to Reality: Rocket Lab’s Pioneer Spacecraft Delivers In-Space Manufacturing – VARDA.

ATMOS Space Cargo.
NSF (filmpje): Returning to Earth - ATMOS Space Cargo - NSF Live: Europe's Future in Space.

Reentry Kosmos 482.
The Planetary Society – Planetary Radio – Kosmos 482: The Soviet-era Venus probe that fell to Earth.
Sciene Alert: Kosmos 482's Final Descent Captured in One Haunting Image
The Space Review: Raiders of the Lost Venus Probe: a post-mortem of an interesting reentry and the confusion it left

Satelliet reentries / Ruimteafval / SSA.
Payload: UN Releases Space Debris Primer.
ESA: Zero Debris Webinar – Unlocking Funding (23 May 2025).

Space News: Astroscale clears critical design review for OneWeb satellite removal demo.

Space Daily: Space Collision Threat Fuels Urgency in Orbital Safety Market.
ESA (filmpje): Space is getting crowded – and not in a good way.
Space News: Space Economy Faces Ticking Clock on Collision Risk.
Space News: Space debris crisis: the national security threat we’re ignoring.
Space News: Sensors designed to detect nuclear detonations can help track space debris falling to Earth.

Payload: LeoLabs unveils Scout Mobile Radar System.
Space News: Slingshot targets international market with sovereign space tracking systems.

RoomEU: Space sustainability and the role of space situational awareness.
SpaceCom: US and China need a space hotline for orbital emergencies, experts say.

Satellietconstellaties – Navigatie.
Space Capital (filmpje): Navigating the Future: Resilient GPS & AltPNT.
GPS World: Solar Storm may impact GPS.

Satellietconstellaties en DTC/D2C – Direct-To-Cell.
Space News: The new attack surface: from space to smartphone.

Satellietconstellaties.
Space News: Chinese commercial company lands contract to build provincial satellite constellation – remote sensing.

Space News: Empyreum, Italy’s new satellite platform for the constellation era.

The Times of India: Elon Musk’s Starlink to launch in India with monthly plans starting at $10 and hig-speed bandwith.
Via Satellite: Report: Starlink Receives Key Regulatory Approval in India as Elon Musk Feuds with President Trump
The Times of India: Solar Storms are killing SpaceX’s Starlink satellites and making them re-enter Earth sooner; says NASA.

Satellite Pro ME: SES’s 7th and 8th O3b mPOWER satellites set to begin connectivity services

NASA: c-FIRST Team Sets Sights on Future Fire-observing Satellite Constellations

Space News: Skepticism lingers about cost and business case for IRIS²

On-Orbit Refueling.
European Spaceflight: CNES Issues Call for In-Orbit Refuelling Services Demonstration – CRYOSTARS.
SpaceCom: Satellites are polluting Earth's atmosphere with heavy metals. Could refueling them in orbit help?

Nederlandse firma T-Minus Engineering gaat in het najaar twee hypersonische raketten lanceren vanuit Canada.
SpaceQ: Spaceport Nova Scotia to host two hypersonic launches in October.

Space Force – Nieuws.
Defense One: Despite Golden Dome, Space Force budget would shrink again under 2026 spending plan.
Breakding Defense: US cuts to commercial space imagery could endanger ‘long-term health’ of industry, say insiders.
L3Harris: L3Harris Delivers Advanced Offensive Space Capability to Space Force.
Space News: HASC warns White House over delayed defense budget, potential cuts to Space Force funding.
Via Satellite: Low Altitude, High Stakes: Why VLEO Will Decide Military Superiority.

Resilient Missile Warning Tracking Epoch 2 – MWT Contract voor BAE Systems.
SSC: USSF strengthens resilience in missile warning, tracking with new Epoch 2 constellation in MEO.
Space News: U.S. Space Force awards BAE Systems $1.2 billion contract for missile-tracking satellites.
Payload: BAE Snags $1.2B Missile Warning Contract.

Golden Dome – Missile Defense Shield.
Space News: Golden Dome: It’s all about the data.
Air & Space Forces: Golden Dome to Counter Ukraine-Inspired Attacks, USAF Boss Says.
Payload: Dems Worry Golden Dome Will Launch Arms Race.
TASS: Golden Dome missile shield project turns space into arena of armed confrontation — Ryabkov.
TASS: US Golden Dome project could obstruct arms control, senior Russian diplomat warns.

Hubble Space Telescope – Nieuws (mei 2025).
NASA: NASA’s Hubble Pinpoints Roaming Massive Black Hole.
NASA: Hubble Comes Face-to-Face with Spiral’s Arms.
SpaceCom: Hubble Telescope sees wandering black hole slurping up stellar spaghetti.
NASA: Hubble Pinpoints Young Stars in Spiral Galaxy.
NASA: Hubble Captures Cotton Candy Clouds.
NASA: Hubble Images Galaxies Near and Far.
NASA: Hubble Spies a Spiral So Inclined.
NASA: Hubble Images Galaxies Near and Far.
ESA: Hubble and Gaia revisit fate of our galaxy.
ESA: Milky Way and Andromeda encounters  (3 scenario’s).
Ars Technica: Milky Way galaxy might not collide with Andromeda after all.
NASA: Hubble Filters a Barred Spiral.
NASA: Hubble Captures Cotton Candy Clouds.
NASA: Hubble Captures Starry Spectacle.

Filmpjes:
STScI: Hubble Space Telescope — More Productive Than Ever.
STScI: Hubble Space Telescope — From Ultraviolet to Infrared.
HubbleWebbESA: Pan: NGC 3507.
HubbleWebbESA: Pan video: NGC 3511.
HubbleWebbESA: Pan video: NGC 3596.
HubbleWebbESA: Pan video: LMC 56.
STScI: Two Views of the Tarantula Nebula - Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes.
STScI: Jupiter Great Red Spot - Hubble Space Telescope.
STScI: Sombrero Galaxy Fade (Visible, Near-Infrared, Mid-Infrared).

STScI: Hubble Space Telescope — Collaborating with Other Observatories.

James Webb Space Telescope – Nieuws (mei 2025).
NASA: NASA’s Webb Lifts Veil on Common but Mysterious Type of Exoplanet.
NASA: New Visualization From NASA’s Webb Telescope Explores Cosmic Cliffs.
NASA: NASA’s Webb Reveals New Details, Mysteries in Jupiter’s Aurora.
SpaceCom: James Webb Space Telescope captures stunning images of bright auroras on Jupiter.
ESA: Titan forecast: partly cloudy with a chance of methane showers.
NASA: Another First: NASA Webb Identifies Frozen Water in Young Star System.
SpaceCom: James Webb Space Telescope discovers an alien planetary system's icy edge.
ESA: Webb glimpses the distant past.
Universe Today: Webb Reveals that Europa's Surface is Constantly Changing.
SpaceCom: ‘Cosmic miracle!' James Webb Space Telescope discovers the earliest galaxy ever seen.
NASA: NASA’s Webb Rounds Out Picture of Sombrero Galaxy’s Disk.
Universe Today: Webb Watches Haze Rise and Fall in Pluto's Atmosphere.
Universe Today: Is the Hubble Tension Starting to Go Away?
SpaceCom: James Webb Space Telescope reveals largest-ever panorama of the early universe.
NASA: Webb Sees Sombrero Galaxy in Near-Infrared.

Filmpjes:
STScI: Aurora Observations on Jupiter — James Webb Space Telescope.
STScI: Webb Captures Jupiter’s Aurora.
NASA: NASA Saw Rain Clouds Made of Methane on Saturn's Moon Titan.
JWST: Webb Spies Rain Clouds, New Molecule on Titan.
ESA: Webb confirms these distant planets formed like Jupiter and Saturn!
ESA: Is there a black hole lurking in M83?
HubbleWebbESA: Pan video: galaxy cluster Abell S1063.
STScI: Two Views of the Tarantula Nebula - Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes.
JWST: Neptune Aurorae First Image Since Voyager 2.

Nieuws van SPHEREx / Punch.
NASA:  NASA Enables SPHEREx Data Return Through Commercial Partnership.
SpaceCom: NASA's PUNCH spacecraft see a cosmic rainbow in the zodiacal light.

Nieuws van NICER.
NASA: NASA’s NICER Maps Debris From Recurring Cosmic Crashes.

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NASA: NASA’s NICER Studies Recurring Cosmic Crashes.

Nieuws van IXPE.
NASA: NASA’s IXPE Reveals X-ray-Generating Particles in Black Hole Jets.

Nieuws van GAIA.
STScI (filmpje): The Shape of Sagittarius in Three Dimensions — Space Telescope Science Institute #shorts.

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope – Nieuws (Mei 2025).
NASA: Key Portion of NASA’s Roman Space Telescope Clears Thermal Vacuum Test.
Space News: I’m an exoplanet scientist. Here’s what we lose if we don’t launch Roman.
SpaceCom: NASA continues building next-gen Roman Space Telescope despite budget worries.
NASA: Core Components for NASA’s Roman Space Telescope Pass Major Shake Test.

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NASA: NASA's Roman Space Telescope Hardware Highlights: Winter/Spring 2025.

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