A quick scan of the sky this week, from the desk of people who think about falling objects more than is strictly healthy.
The fireball surge keeps going. 2026 is running well above the long-run average for big, well-witnessed fireballs. It is real, it is natural rock, and we have been covering it over on the news desk. Nature, not debris.
NASA's Roman Space Telescope reached Florida. The wide-field observatory arrived on June 20 ahead of a launch later this year. Think of it as a Hubble-sized camera with a field of view a hundred times wider.
SMILE got to its science orbit. The joint ESA and Chinese mission settled into its final orbit on June 20 to watch the solar wind slam into Earth's magnetosphere, the invisible weather that debris and satellites both live inside.
Ariane 6 flew with upgraded boosters, and up on the station, astronauts went outside to replace a wrist joint on the Canadarm2 robotic arm. That last one is close to our heart: robotic-arm servicing is the same family of problem as on-orbit capture.
And a Falcon 9 added two dozen more Starlinks on June 24, which, as ever, is two dozen more things someone will eventually have to track on the way down.
That last line is the whole job, summarized. More soon.