{"source":"spaceflight-news","name":"Spaceflight news","kind":"widget","via":"aiden","records":[{"id":39075,"title":"From Hampton to Mars: How NASA Langley Helped Land on the Red Planet","subtitle":"NASA · 2026-07-20","value":"2026-07-20T15:47:15Z","href":"https://www.nasa.gov/general/from-hampton-to-mars-how-nasa-langley-helped-land-on-the-red-planet/","props":{"summary":"Fifty years ago, NASA’s Viking 1 and 2 landers made the first successful landings on Mars, opening a new era in planetary exploration. Behind that achievement was a team at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, whose steady leadership and technical expertise helped turn an ambitious idea into a mission that reshaped how we […]","image_url":"https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/e1-viking-1-pia00381.jpg","news_site":"NASA","featured":false,"authors":["NASA"]}},{"id":39074,"title":"Our First View of the Surface of Mars","subtitle":"NASA · 2026-07-20","value":"2026-07-20T15:38:29Z","href":"https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/our-first-view-of-the-surface-of-mars/","props":{"summary":"“Touchdown, we have touchdown!” At 5:12 a.m. PDT, July 20, 1976, mission controllers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory erupted in cheers as they learned that the Viking 1 lander had survived its descent through the thin Martian atmosphere. Forty minutes later, the lander’s first image began to appear on their monitors, slowly forming line by […]","image_url":"https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/34280-mars-viking1-lander-1st-image-pia00381.jpg","news_site":"NASA","featured":false,"authors":["NASA"]}},{"id":39073,"title":"UK Misses Deadline to Award Contract for Space Debris Removal Mission","subtitle":"European Spaceflight · 2026-07-20","value":"2026-07-20T14:03:44Z","href":"https://europeanspaceflight.com/uk-misses-deadline-to-award-contract-for-space-debris-removal-mission/","props":{"summary":"The UK Space Agency has missed a deadline to award a £75.6 million contract for the country’s first mission to capture and remove dead satellites from low Earth orbit. A call for Phase 3 of the mission’s development was published in July 2025, with the contract initially expected to be awarded by 30 March 2026. […]\nThe post UK Misses Deadline to Award Contract for Space Debris Removal Mission appeared first on European Spaceflight.","image_url":"https://europeanspaceflight.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/UK-Misses-Deadline-to-Award-Contract-for-Space-Debris-Removal-Mission.webp","news_site":"European Spaceflight","featured":false,"authors":["European Spaceflight"]}},{"id":39072,"title":"Pipelines to payloads: risk management lessons for the space economy","subtitle":"SpaceNews · 2026-07-20","value":"2026-07-20T13:00:00Z","href":"https://spacenews.com/pipelines-to-payloads-risk-management-lessons-for-the-space-economy/","props":{"summary":"\nThe energy sector has spent decades learning how to manage complex disputes that touch on sovereign power, geopolitics, regulation and private capital. Those same dynamics are at play in the […]\nThe post Pipelines to payloads: risk management lessons for the space economy appeared first on SpaceNews.","image_url":"https://i0.wp.com/spacenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/transporter16.jpeg?fit=1024%2C683&ssl=1","news_site":"SpaceNews","featured":false,"authors":["Elizabeth Silbert, Carson W. Bennett, and Viva Dadwal"]}},{"id":39070,"title":"Live coverage: SpaceX to launch 24 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg SFB","subtitle":"Spaceflight Now · 2026-07-20","value":"2026-07-20T12:38:44Z","href":"https://spaceflightnow.com/2026/07/20/live-coverage-spacex-to-launch-24-starlink-satellites-on-falcon-9-rocket-from-vandenberg-sfb-11/","props":{"summary":"The Starlink 17-39 mission is SpaceX’s 85th Falcon 9 rocket launch of the year. Liftoff from pad 4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base is scheduled for 7:36 a.m. PDT (10:36 a.m. EDT / 1436 UTC).","image_url":"http://spaceflightnow.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/20240214_Starlink_7-14_prelaunch_small-678x452.jpg","news_site":"Spaceflight Now","featured":false,"authors":["Will Robinson-Smith"]}},{"id":39069,"title":"Plato's electronics ready for space","subtitle":"ESA · 2026-07-20","value":"2026-07-20T12:30:00Z","href":"https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2026/07/Plato_s_electronics_ready_for_space","props":{"summary":"The European Space Agency’s terrestrial planet hunter Plato has recently completed a series of key tests inside the Maxwell Test Chamber at ESTEC, demonstrating that its electronic equipment is fit to work in space.","image_url":"https://www.esa.int/var/esa/storage/images/esa_multimedia/images/2026/07/plato_s_electronics_ready_for_space/27380984-1-eng-GB/Plato_s_electronics_ready_for_space_card_full.jpg","news_site":"ESA","featured":false,"authors":["ESA"]}},{"id":39068,"title":"AI rocket engine startup LegendSpace raises $29.5 million angel round","subtitle":"SpaceNews · 2026-07-20","value":"2026-07-20T11:18:13Z","href":"https://spacenews.com/ai-rocket-engine-startup-legendspace-raises-29-5-million-angel-round/","props":{"summary":"\nHELSINKI — A six-month-old Chinese startup aiming to use artificial intelligence to compress rocket engine development cycles has raised $29.5 million in angel funding. LegendSpace, full name Linjie Hangtian (Beijing) […]\nThe post AI rocket engine startup LegendSpace raises $29.5 million angel round appeared first on SpaceNews.","image_url":"https://i0.wp.com/spacenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/CE5-launch-CNSA-23nov2020-3.jpg?fit=1024%2C684&ssl=1","news_site":"SpaceNews","featured":false,"authors":["Andrew Jones"]}},{"id":39066,"title":"Artemis II crew at ESTEC","subtitle":"ESA · 2026-07-20","value":"2026-07-20T08:30:00Z","href":"https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Videos/2026/07/Artemis_II_crew_at_ESTEC","props":{"summary":"The four Artemis II astronauts visited ESTEC, ESA’s technical centre in the Netherlands, on 13 July as the first stop in a series of post-flight visits to the European teams that made their mission possible.","image_url":"https://www.esa.int/var/esa/storage/images/esa_multimedia/videos/2026/07/artemis_ii_crew_at_estec/27383126-1-eng-GB/Artemis_II_crew_at_ESTEC_card_full.png","news_site":"ESA","featured":false,"authors":["ESA"]}},{"id":39067,"title":"From system to signal at ESA’s Navigation Training Course","subtitle":"ESA · 2026-07-20","value":"2026-07-20T06:54:00Z","href":"https://www.esa.int/Applications/Satellite_navigation/From_system_to_signal_at_ESA_s_Navigation_Training_Course","props":{"summary":"From 22-26 June, 30 university students from Europe and Canada came together at the European Space Agency (ESA) Academy’s Training and Learning Facility in Belgium to explore the fundamentals of global navigation satellite systems (GNSS). The course prepared the next generation of navigation professionals with lectures from experts and hands-on exercises where students applied their new knowledge.","image_url":"https://www.esa.int/var/esa/storage/images/esa_multimedia/images/2026/07/esa_academy_s_navigation_training_course_in_redu_belgium/27382596-1-eng-GB/ESA_Academy_s_Navigation_Training_Course_in_Redu_Belgium_card_full.jpg","news_site":"ESA","featured":false,"authors":["ESA"]}},{"id":39071,"title":"Shaping the Emerald City","subtitle":"NASA · 2026-07-20","value":"2026-07-20T04:01:00Z","href":"https://science.nasa.gov/earth/earth-observatory/shaping-the-emerald-city/","props":{"summary":"The hills and basins of Seattle, Washington, have been sculpted by glaciers and modified by humans.","image_url":"https://assets.science.nasa.gov/dynamicimage/assets/science/esd/eo/images/iotd/2026/shaping-the-emerald-city/ISS074-E-723719.jpg","news_site":"NASA","featured":false,"authors":["NASA"]}},{"id":39065,"title":"What’s Happening in Space Policy July 19-26, 2026","subtitle":"SpacePolicyOnline.com · 2026-07-19","value":"2026-07-19T21:17:07Z","href":"https://spacepolicyonline.com/news/whats-happening-in-space-policy-july-19-26-2026/","props":{"summary":"Here is SpacePolicyOnline.com’s list of space policy events for the week plus a day of July 19-26, 2026 and any insight we can offer about them. 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