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August 17, 2026
The Pentagon's recent spate of UFO releases represent a big shift and are of great benefit to the country, according to disclosure advocate Mike Gold.
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As Blue Origin continues to repair its New Glenn launch pad following the rocket's explosion in May, the company has announced plans to build a second pad at the same complex to support the bigger…
Date: August 17, 2026 - August 21, 2026 Location: Liege, Belgium The post IAUS 408: Unraveling the joint lives of Stars and Exoplanets appeared first on NASA Science .
Aviación Digital, Sp.- In the early hours of August 16, 2026 (Spanish peninsular time), SpaceX's launch cadence reached a new milestone: the company launched two Falcon 9 rockets with…
ESA launched seven CubeSat missions aboard SpaceX’s Transporter-16 to test laser communications, inter-satellite networks and in-orbit artificial intelligence, aiming for a… The post…
A U.S. Space Domain Awareness payload hosted on Japan's Quasi-Zenith Satellite 7 successfully launched aboard Japan's H3 launch vehicle on August 10, 2026. The mission marked the H3 vehicle's second…
MDA Space has confirmed the first eight Globalstar replenishment satellites reached orbit, launched Saturday 15 August on a Falcon 9 and built in Montréal, now entering in-orbit commissioning.
The post APOD: 2026 August 17 – A Golden Corona Eclipse appeared first on NASA Science .
NASA aircraft are sampling smoke lofted high into the atmosphere by one of the most formidable cloud types in the sky—towering, smoke-infused pyrocumulonimbus. The post Chasing Fire Clouds in Utah…
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A June 2026 traffic index counted nearly eight times as many working satellites as existed at the start of 2019, with Starlink making up 65.97 percent. The post At the start of 2019, fewer than…
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August 16, 2026
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Last Saturday, August 15, SpaceX launched two Falcon 9 rockets carrying separate missions: Globalstar 2-R Launch 1 and USSF-366…
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NASA will hold MAX POWER on November 7 and 8, a new public exhibition of aeronautical and space innovation at the Kennedy Space Center…
On August 14, 2026, Norges Bank Investment Management, manager of Norway’s Sovereign Wealth Fund, disclosed an expanded equity position in direct-to-device (D2D) satellite communications operator…
On August 15, 2026, SpaceX completed two orbital Falcon 9 launches within 38 minutes from operational pads on opposite coasts of the United States. The high-cadence launch doubleheader deployed the…
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SpaceX launched a classified Space Force mission from Vandenberg, revealing almost nothing about its payload. The post SpaceX just launched a secret payload from California appeared first on…
An early-stage grant is offering a look at spherical 'Aerobots' that could zoom around the caves of Titan, in a demo mission similar to Mars Ingenuity.
Keith’s note: I was on Deutsche Welle overnight with space security policy analyst Peter Hays talking about Ukraine’s attacks on Russian space facilities. [Video] The post NASAWatch on DW: Ukraine…
On August 10, 2026, a Japanese H-3 launch vehicle lifted off from the Tanegashima Space Center carrying Japan’s Quasi-Zenith Satellite 7 (QZS-7) spacecraft, which hosts an optical Space Domain…
The Big Bang swap freed almost 10 watts while preserving Voyager 2's thermal balance, keeping its three remaining interstellar instruments on for at least another year. The post Voyager 2 is nearly…
On August 15, 2026, VinSpace, the space technology arm of Vietnamese conglomerate Vingroup, signed a launch services agreement with SpaceX to deploy its initial batch of commercial nanosatellites…
On this day in space Aug. 16, 1963: NASA's M2-F1 aircraft prototype makes its first glide flight.
Firefly, D-Orbit and Katalyst will compete to show how commercial operators could capture and remove aging spacecraft The post U.S. defense agencies tap three companies for satellite disposal study…
Today, August 16, 2026 at 21:54, there will be a pass of SpaceX's Starlink satellites visible in Italy. Often, looking up...
Russia is accelerating the deployment of its Rassvet low-orbit satellite constellation, an alternative to the US Starlink, aiming for nearly 300 satellites in orbit by 2027,…
The post APOD: 2026 August 16 – Milky Way over Yellowstone appeared first on NASA Science .
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SpaceX launched two of its Falcon 9 rockets just 38 minutes apart on Saturday evening (Aug. 15), setting a new spaceflight record.
At the moment of liftoff, SpaceX’s Starship pushes off the launch pad with approximately 74.4 million newtons of thrust — enough force, in principle, to lift roughly 7,500 tonnes of mass directly…
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August 15, 2026
The batch of eight Globalstar satellites will help refresh the company’s low Earth orbit constellation. Liftoff from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station is scheduled for 9:12 p.m. EDT (0112…
NASA plans to award three more lunar missions this year through a commercial services program, including an orbiter that would replace the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter The post Lunar orbiter among…
