Space

SpaceX’s first orbital Starship vehicle’s booster test ended in an anomalous fire originating from the base of the vehicle. The pad was cleared of personnel at the time of the fire, no injuries were reported. Super Heavy Booster 7 was tested at SpaceX’s Starbase complex at Boca Chica, Texas. SpaceX was planning on conducting a spin start test of the engines, which did not involve ignition.

ESA set up a 12-member advisory group to provide decision-makers with independent and objective geopolitical, economic and societal assessments regarding the agency's human and robotic space exploration. The group comprises eight men and five women from political, economic, academic and explorer backgrounds.

Antenna developer, Anywaves, has signed a contract with Airbus Defence and Space to supply antennas for over 15 satellite platforms for a project for space infrastructure provider, Loft Orbital, Anywaves said. According to the contract, Anywaves will provide more than 70 products for the platforms to be deployed by Loft Orbital.

The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and the Radio Regulations Board (RRB) have rejected a request by the government of Liechtenstein and its US-based industrial partner, Rivada Space Networks, for a one-year extension of the deadline for two low Earth orbit broadband satellite constellations.

Information and communication technology provider, Ericsson, French aerospace company, Thales, and wireless technology innovator, Qualcomm Technologies, are taking 5G into space to conduct smartphone-use-case-focused testing and validation of 5G non-terrestrial networks (5G NTN).

NASA has published the James Webb Space Telescope’s deepest and sharpest infrared image of the distant Universe so far, known as Webb’s First Deep Field, an image of galaxy cluster SMACS 0723. The image contains thousands of galaxies, including the faintest objects ever observed in the infrared part of the spectrum.

SpaceWatch.Global Event coordinator and Space Café Young Global Talents Host Chiara Moenter spoke with Hugo André Costa, member of the Board of Directors at Portuguese Space Agency, in the first week of the Space Studies Program (SSP22) of the International Space University (ISU).

University of Arizona aerospace experts and a NASA planetary scientist took inspiration from albatross flight to develop a sailplane that could potentially examine the Red Planet's atmosphere and geology. Atmospheric climate processes take place in the first few kilometers above the ground.

Global positioning, navigation and timing (PNT) company, Orolia, joined inertial navigation systems company, Safran Electronics & Defense, Orolia said. Orolia has over 435 employees in Europe and North America with a revenue of approximately €100 million. Its technologies and equipment include atomic clocks, time servers,

The session ‘Making the Moon Work: Governance and Safety in a New Environment’ took place in the afternoon on the second day of ‘The 4th Summit for Space Sustainability’ held in London on June 22nd-23rd, and organized by the Secure World Foundation (SWF). SWF’s hot topic to not junk-up space with waste and debris is as much a concern on the Moon as in Earth orbit.