The acting head of NASA just said the agency should stop doing Earth science, a core part of its mission since the very beginning. NASA’s first mission in 1958, Explorer-1, studied Earth’s magnetic fields, and today its Earth science programs track drought, forecast severe

Scott Hammond has been appointed CEO of SaxaVord Spaceport, with Debbie Strang named Deputy CEO while continuing as COO. Together with the late Frank Strang, they co-founded SaxaVord in 2017. We look ahead with confidence as they lead us towards our first launch.

UK Space Agency to be merged with Dept of Science, Innovation and Technology - but will still retain its name as a unit in DSIT. Will this bring different gov stakeholders together to drive UK space - or distract from progress? gov.uk/government/new… #UKspace FAO Tom Dune 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🚀🤘🏳️‍🌈

Standing down from today's tenth flight of Starship to allow time to troubleshoot an issue with ground systems

Starship Flight 10: Under three hours to the opening of the window. Launch Stream on X and YT: youtube.com/watch?v=dwC9sr…

I don’t want anyone to “Nuke Mars”. Planetary Protection rules are there for a reason. #Starship

All the hyper-optimistic future talk about the speed of reuse of the super heavy booster is to be expected, but weren’t they going for 25 Starship launches in 2025? If it launches tonight it will be the fourth of the year - and hopefully break a run of RUDs. #Starship

Nice graphic from the NSF - NASASpaceflight.com team comparing rocket heights - #Starship really is massive.

Ah scrub. No-go on weather. #Starship

T – 2 hours. Weather is currently 45% favorable for the launch. Not looking much better than yesterday. If it's scrubbed again, the next launch window will be 48 hours later.

Oosh - not sure what all that debris was! #Starship

Starship Flight 10 complete! Ship 37 flip and burn landing!

Splashdown of Ship 37 in the Indian Ocean, marking the end of Starship Flight 10. This was the fourth flight of a Block 2 Ship upper stage. Watch live: youtube.com/watch?v=4sLKqF…

IT'S ORANGE!!! CONGRATS SPACEX!!

Successful flight 10 of Starship; 8 dummy Starlinks deployed, in-space Raptor restart, reentry and soft landing in Indian Ocean. Partial structural failure of aft skirt at T+47m, some minor flap damage, but overall a good flight putting the program back on track.

ESA welcomes JAXA's interest in participating in the Ramses mission to the asteroid Apophis, which will make a safe but exceptionally rare and scientifically valuable flyby of Earth in April 2029. esa.int/Space_Safety/P…

This is the most badass spaceflight photo I have seen in a long, long time.

Sad that former astronaut Garrett Reisman needed to write this, but very very glad he did - and I hope people take note. thespacereview.com/article/5060/1