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August 18, 2026
SpaceX launched its 100th mission of the year early Wednesday morning (Aug. 19), sending 24 Starlink satellites to low Earth orbit.
On August 18, 2026, Merritt Island-based technical services firm All Points Logistics announced it received an on-ramp selection for NASA’s multi-award Spacecraft Processing and Operations Contract…
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The vehicle was taken near the coast of Christmas Island and will now be examined by engineers before the attempt to return to Starbase The post SpaceX rescues Starship…
The maneuver reorganized the probe's power and heating systems to keep three scientific instruments running longer The post Voyager: how NASA fixed…
NASA's Boeing 777 returns to the agency's Langley Research Center after receiving a new paint scheme.
NASA’s Boeing 777 shows off a new paint job in this Aug. 11, 2026, photo. The B777 was acquired to replace and extend the capabilities of the NASA DC-8, which was retired in 2024. The B777, set to…
Many of NASA’s most important aerospace breakthroughs that began in the laboratory were ultimately proven in the sky. For decades, experts at NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland conducted…
The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope recently imaged NGC 2392 (also known as the Lion Nebula), named for its distinctive appearance, which resembles a lion's face seen head-on.
The Moon's shadow crossed Greenland, Iceland and Spain on Aug. 12, and a fleet of satellites along with the International Space Station captured the event from angles…
Live coverage: SpaceX to send Starlink satellites to orbit with Tuesday night launch from California
The Starlink 17-50 mission will add another 24 broadband satellites to the company’s megaconstellation. Liftoff from pad 4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base is scheduled for 8:45 p.m. PDT (11:45 p.m…
NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is on a quest to discover planets outside our solar system. NASA scientists Bertrand Mennesson and Vanessa Bailey explain how Roman’s wide view will spot as…
SpaceX has successfully guided Starship Ship 40 to a location just off the coast of… The post Ship 40 arrives at Christmas Island, Plans Return to Starbase appeared first on NASASpaceFlight.com .
NASA astronaut Anil Menon and ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Sophie Adenot began a spacewalk at 8:29 a.m. EDT outside the International Space Station to replace a Space-to-Ground antenna on…
MARSIS found an intensely bright boundary beneath Mars's south polar ice. SHARAD has now reached the same layer and returned a much fainter signal. The post A radar aboard ESA’s Mars Express…
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On July 24 one of our members’ aircraft – a medevac jet – departed MGGT/Guatemala...
Honeywell Aerospace has announced the successful validation of a new satellite communications antenna designed to enable safe, reliable command-and-control of unmanned aircraft flying beyond visual…
NASA is streaming live coverage as two astronauts prepare for a spacewalk outside the International Space Station. The spacewalk is scheduled to last about six and a half hours.
A modern model built around Viking 2's frost photographs and weather record finds a narrow 30-sol season when microscopic calcium-perchlorate brines may briefly form in Martian soil. The post NASA’s…
NRO contract increases U.S. government access to satellite data used to locate radars, ships and other electronic emitters The post NRO to expand use of HawkEye 360’s satellite intelligence appeared…
SpaceX has agreed to keep Poland within Starlink’s European roaming region after the country’s foreign minister threatened to reconsider roughly $50 million in annual payments to the company. The…
Written by K.-P. Ludwig SPRIND’s 2026 space strategy imagines a sovereign European orbital economy built on innovation and autonomy. But the U.S. Space Command’s SWE 2040 describes a very different…
Firefly Aerospace will be able to bid for new NASA contracts to prepare payloads for missions launching from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. The…
NASA's Starling mission has marked another milestone in spacecraft autonomy by using a new system that determines a satellite's position in orbit using as a reference…
The post APOD: 2026 August 18 – Perseids from Perseus appeared first on NASA Science .
The powerful storm delivered extreme rainfall and damaging winds to the state, passing the Island of Hawaiʻi as a category 1 hurricane. The post Lala Batters Hawaii appeared first on NASA Science .
A NASA scientist's decades-long detective hunt to locate the Moon trees—seeds that orbited the lunar surface in 1971 and were scattered across America with no tracking system—has finally revealed…
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August 17, 2026
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The announcement comes as the company continues rebuilding the LC-36A pad, damaged by a New Glenn explosion during a test in May…
On August 17, 2026, NASA announced the successful flight demonstration of the Fast Autonomous Lost-in-space Catalog-based Optical Navigation (FALCON) system aboard the agency’s Starling CubeSat…
The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has captured images of NGC 2392 (also known as the Lion Nebula), which Hubble previously imaged in 2000.
NASA is advancing the development of the mobility capabilities needed for its future operations on the lunar surface, an area that will be key to extending the range of both…
