July 18, 2025 Quick space links
Courtesy of BtB’s stringer Jay. This post is also an open thread. I welcome my readers to post any comments or additional links relating to any space issues, even if unrelated to the links below.
- The French startup The Exploration Company touts the successful test of thrusters to be used on its Nyx capsule
It also said these thrusters would be used on a lunar lander version of Nyx.
- Video clip from the July 10, 2025 NASA Starliner update
It is a short clip. More information here. No real news. As has been noted repeatedly for about six months, NASA is considering flying the next Starliner flight as an unmanned ISS cargo mission, and won’t fly it until next year.
- Blue Origin touts the second launch of New Glenn, carrying NASA’s two Escapade Mars smallsat orbiters
No launch date however has been announced. Escapade is supposed to launch August 15th, but there have numerous rumors that this date is off the table.
- Felix Baumgartner, who jumped from the stratosphere in 2012, has died in a paragliding accident in Italy
Baumgartner was 56 years old.
Courtesy of BtB’s stringer Jay. This post is also an open thread. I welcome my readers to post any comments or additional links relating to any space issues, even if unrelated to the links below.
- The French startup The Exploration Company touts the successful test of thrusters to be used on its Nyx capsule
It also said these thrusters would be used on a lunar lander version of Nyx.
- Video clip from the July 10, 2025 NASA Starliner update
It is a short clip. More information here. No real news. As has been noted repeatedly for about six months, NASA is considering flying the next Starliner flight as an unmanned ISS cargo mission, and won’t fly it until next year.
- Blue Origin touts the second launch of New Glenn, carrying NASA’s two Escapade Mars smallsat orbiters
No launch date however has been announced. Escapade is supposed to launch August 15th, but there have numerous rumors that this date is off the table.
- Felix Baumgartner, who jumped from the stratosphere in 2012, has died in a paragliding accident in Italy
Baumgartner was 56 years old.