Following its launch aboard Pegasus, all is well with Katalyst's LINK spacecraft. The spacecraft is about halfway through its commissioning phase. Once commissioning has been completed, the spacecraft will start its rendezvous with NASA's Swift Observatory.

Launch of Roskosmos #Soyuz 2.1a rocket with Pyotr Dubrov, Anna Kikina and Anil Menon on #SoyuzMS29 mission to the ISS imminent. Watch live!

Launch of SpaceX #Falcon9 Block 5 rocket with #Starlink Group 10-45 satellites & 1st stage droneship landing imminent. Watch live!

Launch of SpaceX #Falcon9 Block 5 rocket with #Starlink Group 15-14 satellites & 1st stage droneship landing imminent. Watch live!

On-Orbit Checkouts in Progress for Mission to Boost NASA’s Swift Telescope science.nasa.gov/blogs/swift/... via #NASA

Launch of SpaceX #Falcon9 Block 5 rocket with #Starlink Group 17-48 satellites & 1st stage droneship landing imminent. Watch live!

On its first outing, the Long March 10B recovered its booster at sea while delivering a customer satellite into orbit, becoming China's first operational reusable rocket! Details -> www.china-in-space.com/p/china-reco...

Onboard view of descent and views of the capture.

Stunning! The first Long March-10B launched from Wenchang Space Launch Site, China, at 04:15 UTC on 10 July 2026. Around six minutes after stage separation, its first stage made a controlled descent and was successfully captured on a sea-based platform, while the payload reached its planned orbit.

Rocket Lab’s Electron rocket has had a record stretch through the first half of 2026, driving a sharp rise in launch contracts and revenue, even as the company’s larger Neutron vehicle continues working through a delayed path to its debut. www.nasaspaceflight.com/2026/07/rock... By Sean Yoder

Mark Ham wowed the world with this picture. But then someone wowed me even more by pointing out that the moon always has the same phase when it's in a rainbow! (1/2)

Interesting point that #SpaceX seems to be discontinuing Transporter missions after 2028.

🪨🛰️ Size comparison between the asteroids Kamoʻoalewa, Ryugu, Bennu, and Itokawa. With only 30 m on its major axis, Kamoʻoalewa is a tiny asteroid: the Tianwen-2 probe and its 15 m wingspan alone represents half of its length!

That's quite a sporty deployment for "KITA-53"

Here's my identification attempt for Transporter-17, SpaceX' 4th rideshare mission this year. I've gotten pretty much everything, except that circular satellite between Apex Flashpoint and ICEYE, with what appears to be some sort of Roll-Out Solar Array?

Launch of SpaceX #Falcon9 Block 5 rocket with 81 payloads on #Transporter17 mission & 1st stage droneship landing imminent. Watch live!

Asteroid Torifune was just imaged by Japan's Hayabusa 2. This asteroid is a rubble pile. If you could gently place it in the middle of a parking lot, it might look something like this. 🔭 #astro

And another new asteroid! Here's Torifune, captured during yesterday's flyby by Hayabusa2. www.jaxa.jp/press/2026/0...

Great week-end for small bodies ! Hayabusa 2# flyby of asteroid Torifune (www.jaxa.jp/press/2026/0...) and Tianwen-2 images of asteroid Kamo'oalewa (www.xinhuanet.com/20260706/eb8...) ! #PlanetaryScience

China’s #Tianwen2 probe has arrived at the near-Earth asteroid Kamo'oalewa and begun scientific exploration. After a 400-day journey of roughly 1 billion km through deep space. The image shows the target asteroid, taken by the probe from roughly 20 km away on approach to Kamo'oalewa on July 2.

Tianwen-2 had arrived. Here's asteroid Kamo'oalewa seen from 20 km away www.xinhuanet.com/20260706/eb8...

Launch 47: A Long March 8A lifted off at 1343 UTC today from Hainan commercial launch centre, sending the Qianfan polar group 15 LEO comms satellites into orbit. mp.weixin.qq.com/s/Mp7Spec1o2...

Hayabusa2 has performed the Torifune flyby, and on July 5 at 18:35 JST, ground control confirmed that the spacecraft is operating normally.

Launch of Long March #CZ8A rocket with a batch of #Qianfan satellites imminent. Watch live!

Launch of SpaceX #Falcon9 Block 5 rocket with #Starlink Group 10-50 satellites & 1st stage droneship landing imminent. Watch live!

Two semiconductor fabrication test beds will hitch a sub-orbital ride on the first stage of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket that is set to launch another batch of Starlink satellites from Cape Canaveral shortly after sunrise Sunday: spaceflightnow.com/2026/07/04/l...

And NASA confirmed Pegasus launched and reached orbit! Launch took place at 08:36 UTC. Over the next few weeks, Katalyst will perform checkouts and rendezvous with Swift, after which they will observe Swift to characterise it before attempting to dock. 📸 CYGNSS in 2016

Another step toward reusable rockets. iSpace has successfully completed sea trials for its recovery barge, using a mock Hyperbola-3 first stage off the coast of Yangjiang, Guangdong. The milestone brings the company closer to recovering and reusing its boosters.

🚀 Lift Off! - A Long March 4B rocket carrying a new marine satellite - The Haiyang 2E satellite will replace the Haiyang-2B launched in 2018 and work with other orbiting Haiyang satellites in a network serving maritime rights, disaster mitigation, resource exploitation, and marine research.

What the... NASA says the Pegasus-XL launch was SCRUBBED due to an issue that prevented the rocket from being deployed from Stargazer. No new date has been set. So if it wasn't Pegasus, what did we see flying right around T-0?

Launch of United Launch Alliance #AtlasV 551 rocket with 29 #AmazonLeo satellites on #Leo8 / #LA08 mission imminent. Watch live! #AV114

It's #Asteroid Day, so here is the one @NASA smashed a spacecraft into. This data was used by @unistellar.bsky.social astronomers along with data from ~30 amateurs in the publication www.nature.com/articles/s41... #Astronomy

New distance measurements for our galaxy 📏 ESA's XMM-Newton & NASA's Chandra have measured the distance to three bright explosions echoing through the outer spiral arms of our galaxy. In doing so, they found the arms to be up to 10% further away than we thought 👉 www.esa.int/Science_Expl... 🔭 🧪 ☄️

The: - final launch of the Atlas V 551 configuration, - final launch of the Atlas V 5-meter fairing, - final Atlas V to launch satellites, - final launch of the Single Engine Centaur, - final Amazon Leo launch on Atlas V 🫡

YTD orbital launch stats: 🇺🇸 85 🇨🇳 44 🇳🇿 10 🇷🇺 8 🇪🇺 4 🇯🇵 2 🇮🇳 1 🌍 154

Launch of @rocketlabcorp.com #Electron rocket with #QPS-SAR 13 satellite imminent. Watch live! #TheGrainGoddessProvides

Humans changed an 🪨asteroid - now we find out how! Especially for Asteroid Day,🎥watch the full story so far of our Hera mission 🛰️, on its way thru deep space to probe the first Solar System body transformed by human action 💥: www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed...

In July, the second Zhuque-3 and the first Long March 10B will attempt to complete their respective first-stage booster recovery attempts, either of which could be China's first Details -> www.china-in-space.com/p/zhuque-3-l...

NASA has awarded more lunar lander contracts for its moon base plan, while announcing new capabilities it wants for the moon and an intention to fly a rover based on the Mars Perseverance rover to the moon?? www.nasa.gov/news-release...

Addressing the problem of space junk effectively requires work across three fronts: technology, policy and philosophy. 🧪 🔭

A Pegasus XL is set this week to launch a mission to reboost NASA’s Swift space telescope. A look at the rapid development of the unique mission and the prospects of using that technology for other applications, including boosting Hubble. www.thespacereview.com/article/5256/1

Launch of SpaceX #Falcon9 Block 5 rocket with #Starlink Group 17-40 satellites & 1st stage droneship landing imminent. Watch live!

Reid Wiseman just dropped this photo on his Instagram page. It's our homeworld, looking at the nightside, taken from inside the Artemis II Orion spacecraft through one of the windows. There's something so casual about it, about the reflections in the window, but outside IS A WHOLE PLANET HOLY SHIT

A large #asteroid will safely pass Earth today at 11:14 UTC. #1997NC1 is estimated at 750–1650m diameter based on a 5%–25% albedo range. At its closest point to our planet, it will be 6.66 times farther than the Moon. Last night I caught it with my @unistellar.bsky.social #eVscope.

The VICTUS HAZE exercise appears to be proceeding as planned. Based on the TLEs, Puma synchronized orbit about 100 km from Jackal on Jun 23. On Jun 25 Jackal made an evasion manuver. In the most recent TLEs Puma had not yet responded.

Launch of @rocketlabcorp.com #Electron rocket with Synspective #StriX satellite imminent. Watch live! #TenOwlOfTen

Launch of SpaceX #Falcon9 Block 5 rocket with #Starlink Group 17-45 satellites & 1st stage droneship landing imminent. Watch live!

Dragon departing Fascinating footage captured from the spaceship as it backs up from ISS on its way home, on June 16, 2026. Full video: images.nasa.gov/details/iss0...

In May, Rocket Factory Augsburg outlined upgrades to its RFA ONE rocket and plans for its fully reusable RFA TWO heavy-lift rocket. europeanspaceflight.com/rocket-facto...

🔭 M27: The Dumbbell Nebula Image Credit & Copyright: Francesco Antonucci ap260622