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August 19, 2026
NASA IRTF Semester 2027A Call for Proposals; Open 1 September to 1 October 2026 The post NASA IRTF Semester 2027A Call for Proposals appeared first on NASA Science .
NASA’s 2026 Joint HELIOTECH and Orbital Flight Symposium will be held 31 August – 4 September at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, and online via ZoomGov. The post…
Today, August 19, 2026, at 20:45, there will be a very bright pass of SpaceX's Starlink satellites, visible throughout Italy. Often looking up…
ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot and NASA astronaut Anil Menon completed the US EVA-97 spacewalk on Tuesday, 18 August, at 20:52 CEST. It was the first spacewalk for…
There is a new crater on the Moon since August 5, 2026. It was carved out by the upper stage of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) probe has…
But the most interesting findings come from studying the ejected material, since the images clearly show bright and dark "rays" extending from the center of the…
NASA released on August 18 the images captured by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) probe of the crater created on August 5 by the impact on the Moon of a second stage of the […]…
In the first attempt, on December 3 of the previous year, to land the booster of the Zhouque-3 rocket using the same procedure as SpaceX's Falcon 9, there was still an impact just next to the…
Between the 11th and 12th of this month, NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) captured a series of images of a new crater on the Moon. The crater formed a week earlier…
Space Forge has signed a master research agreement with the Texas A&M University System, a first step toward building its US semiconductor-materials manufacturing capability.
ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot has become the first Frenchwoman to perform a spacewalk, venturing outside the International Space Station yesterday, 18 August, with NASA astronaut Anil Menon to repair…
Photographers at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston have documented some of the most defining moments in human spaceflight. From astronaut training and engineering tests to mission control…
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The current launch pad, which will be redesignated LC-36A, will keep operating for the New Glenn 7x2 version, which has already flown three orbital missions…
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Dragonfly's July 2028 target launch begins a six-and-a-half-year journey to Titan, where a nuclear-powered flying laboratory will compare organic dunes, weather and impact terrain. The post NASA’s…
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August 18, 2026
On August 17, 2026, Viasat Inc. announced it selected Rocket Lab Corporation to manufacture a small geosynchronous Earth orbit (GEO) satellite bus for the U.S. Space Force (USSF) Space Systems […]
Images were captured between August 11 and 12 by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), six days after the object hit the lunar surface The post NASA finds 18-meter crater…
NASA has released a report recommending an initial health standard for the Martian dust that astronauts could inhale during future missions. Although sending people to Mars is still years away, NASA…
The company will use a Photon spacecraft to test interoperability with the Space Data Network's core infrastructure built by SpaceX The post Rocket Lab to test Space Force data network connection in…
Between Aug. 11–12, NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) captured a series of images of a new crater on the moon. The crater formed Aug. 5, when a SpaceX Falcon 9 upper stage impacted the…
NASA astronaut Anil Menon and ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Sophie Adenot concluded their spacewalk outside the International Space Station at __ p.m. EDT.
NASA astronaut Anil Menon and first female French spacewalker Sophie Adenot removed a failed antenna but ran out of time to install its replacement at the International Space Station, Aug. 18, 2026.
VinSpace, a space company recently formed as part of Vietnamese conglomerate Vingroup, signed a launch contract with SpaceX to launch in-orbit demonstration satellites on a Transporter rideshare…
After 6 hours and 23 minutes, today's EVA by NASA astronaut Anil Menon and ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot came to an end. A failed antenna was removed during the spacewalk and on the ISS truss…
Keith’s note: Jared Isaacman posted a class picture of NASA leadership in front of his ride at a management retreat. They are all smiling. That’s a good sign in 2026 […] The post NASA 2026 Senior…
Normand Ranger and GO Australis, carrying Ship 40, have now arrived in the bay off Flying Fish Cove on Christmas Island. SpaceX engineers are on their way there to…
"A team of SpaceX engineers is on their way to conduct additional analysis on the vehicle."
Between Aug. 11 and 12, NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) captured a series of images of a new crater on the Moon. The crater formed on Aug. 5, when a SpaceX Falcon 9 upper stage impacted…
After Starship's test launch and splashdown last month, SpaceX recovery teams have successfully tugged the vehicle through a turbulent stretch of the Indian Ocean and arrived at calmer waters off…
From 2021 to 2024, NASA's Ingenuity helicopter became the first vehicle of its kind to explore the Martian atmosphere and surface. With that proof of concept complete, NASA is preparing to send a…
One big question: Will China assert territorial rights where its rover explores?
