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NASA

• Cottonwood Fire Chars Utah
  July 8, 2026
  The blaze burned more than 150 square miles and swept through parts of a ski resort.
• NASA Transfers ‘Hundred Acre Wood’ to Patuxent Research Refuge
  July 7, 2026 by Rob Garner
  NASA ceremonially transferred ownership of about 105 acres of wooded land at its Goddard Space Flight Center’s Greenbelt, Maryland, campus Tuesday to the adjoining Patuxent Research Refuge, managed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The property, formerly known as NASA Goddard’s Area 400, is now part of the largest block of unfragmented forest between […]
• NASA’s New Horizons Spacecraft Wakes from Hibernation in Good Health
  July 7, 2026
  Following its longest hibernation period ever of nearly a year, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has emerged in good health and is ready to begin transmitting science data gathered in the distant Kuiper Belt far beyond Pluto. On June 23, flight controllers at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, confirmed New Horizons, […]
• Artemis II Crew and Apollo 14 Moon Tree
  July 7, 2026 by HQ Web Team
  In this photograph, the Artemis II crew participates in the dedication of the Apollo 14 Moon tree at the Lunar Receiving Park at NASA’s Johnson Space Center on June 25, 2026. This tree is a second-generation Apollo Moon tree of the loblolly pine species. The original Apollo Moon trees were grown from seeds carried aboard […]
• July 2026 Satellite Puzzler
  July 7, 2026
  Your challenge is to tell us the location of the satellite image and why it is interesting.

SpaceNews

• Space Force adds Relativity, Impulse Space to national security launch program
  July 8, 2026
• Skyroot prepares for first orbital launch attempt
  July 8, 2026
• D-Orbit signs launch-services contract with ArkEdge Space
  July 8, 2026
• Orbit Fab hires new CEO and raises funding to support satellite refueling business
  July 7, 2026
• Spirit Electronics Announces Managed Access to U.S.-Based Advanced Semiconductor Manufacturing for Aerospace and Defense Programs
  July 7, 2026

ArsTechnica

• Dragonflies maneuver like fighter pilots
  by Jennifer Ouellette
• NRC is (sort of) getting rid of "as low as reasonably achievable" standard
  by John Timmer
• Katalyst's satellite rescue mission is now in pursuit of NASA's Swift
  by Stephen Clark
• Chemical accidents rise as Trump administration proposes weakening safety rules
  by Liza Gross, Inside Climate News
• The missing 500 million: Cosmic bombardment melted Earth's first crust
  by Jacek Krywko