Committee urges more competition in satellite communications and criticizes reliance on reconciliation to fund Golden Dome

Four NASA exploration projects that the agency stopped earlier this year had suffered overruns that saw their costs more than double, with more than $1 billion in additional increases expected.

HELSINKI — China is set for a debut flight of its Long March 10B rocket in July and attempt to recover the first stage at sea.

Europe is facing an intense heatwave, with record temperatures and several cities under red alert. On 23 June, France recorded its hottest June day ever.

This image was captured the same day by the Copernicus Sentinel-3 satellite, which measures land surface temperature from space.

Unlike air temperature, land surface temperature shows how hot the ground itself becomes, often much higher as rock and asphalt absorb heat throughout the day.

Sentinel-3 uses thermal sensors to monitor Earth’s land, oceans, ice, and atmosphere, supporting everything from weather response to long-term climate monitoring.

View image: Europe feels the heat beneath our feet

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In this episode of Space Minds, Mike Gruss talks with Iridium’s Tim Last.

For years, small satellite manufacturers have built their business plans around the idea that SpaceX could launch their payload to space.