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August 7, 2026
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Multiple sources have reported that SpaceX has stopped accepting bookings for its Transporter and Bandwagon rideshare missions beyond late 2028, with the company citing a fully booked Falcon 9…
August 6, 2026
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The Aug. 5 update from Blue Origin CEO Dave Limp offered the first explanation for what caused the company’s 98-meter-tall (320 ft.) to explode at the pad on May 28.
As part of preparations for NASA's Lucy probe's first encounters with Trojan asteroids, mission scientists have begun instructing the spacecraft to orient its…
Textbook diagrams enlarge asteroids until the belt looks packed. NASA's own scale estimates show why spacecraft cross it safely and why planned flybys require precise targeting. The post The…
On July 30, 2026, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, carrying the classified NROL-95 payload […]
Jessica Meir and Anil Menon completed a 6.5-hour spacewalk to install solar array mounting hardware outside of the International Space Station on Thursday, Aug. 6, 2026.
The NASA Science Activation Program’s Cosmic Storytelling with NASA Data (CosmicDS) project, led by Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, works to bring authentic NASA data into the hands…
NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Anil Menon concluded their spacewalk outside the International Space Station at 3 p.m. EDT. It was Menon’s first spacewalk and Meir’s sixth.
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As Dave Linp stated in a post on X, the anomaly originated in the main oxygen valve of one of the BE-4 engines. This was also confirmed through the recovery and inspection of hardware…
Blue Origin discovers oxygen valve failure that caused the explosion of the New Glenn rocket and prepares design corrections.
Description This artist’s concept depicts NASA’s three SkyFall Mars helicopters collecting data while flying over the surface of the Red Planet. The green frequency waves emanating from the…
Description SkyFall ground-penetrating radar engineer Maya Román connects a coaxial cable to a test antenna in the Environmental Test Lab’s electromagnetic interference testing chamber at NASA’s Jet…
Apophis will pass inside geostationary altitude in April 2029, giving OSIRIS-APEX a rare chance to inspect how Earth's gravity changed it. The post In April 2029, asteroid Apophis will pass just…
When the trio of NASA’s SkyFall helicopters takes to the Martian skies, one of their tasks will be to hunt for frozen water — a critical resource for future astronauts — using ground-penetrating…
Did you know? The SBIR/STTR program is willing to invest before most other forms of private capital, like VC funding, helping you de-risk your technology and be more attractive to later investors…
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Event Date: Friday August 7, 2026, at 10:15 AM EST. Location: National Press Club 529 14th Street, N.W., Washington, DC Frank Holeman Lounge, 13th Floor. Note: Lounge entrance located on 14th St…
As NASA sets its sights on long-term exploration of the Moon and Mars, the agency is increasing the cadence of its Artemis missions. Helping bring these plans to fruition is Tom Percy, manager of…
NASA is ahead of schedule on the Artemis 2 mission and is speeding up preparations for Artemis 3, with progress on the Orion capsule and the SLS rocket.
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Northrop Grumman Corporation is developing a series of Lunar Infrastructure Demonstration (LID) missions to help NASA rapidly refine the…
Dave Limp, CEO of Blue Origin, has reported that the New Glenn explosion that occurred last May was caused by a problem in one of its seven BE-4 engines. "The…
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South Korea's Danuri lunar orbiter has spied the crater that a SpaceX rocket blasted out when it slammed into the moon on Wednesday morning (Aug. 5).
After months of speculation, the companies formally announced the massive project will happen just north of Houston.
NASA astronaut candidate Adam Fuhrmann prepares for a training flight aboard NASA’s WB-57 aircraft.
NASA astronaut Adam Fuhrmann (right, in yellow) prepares for a training flight aboard NASA’s WB-57 aircraft in this July 16, 2026, photo. These high-altitude flights train the crew to work in a…
Monitoring & Modeling Blazar Jets Across the Electromagnetic Spectrum. Speaker: Dr. Nicholas R. MacDonald, University of Mississippi The post GR SIG Seminar, 14 August 2026 appeared first on NASA…
SpaceMD plans to fly 32 PIL-BOXes in 2028 on this Starfall mission JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (August 6, 2026) – Space Microgravity Development LLC (SpaceMD), a wholly owned subsidiary of Redwire…
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Blue Origin has made considerable progress in its New Glenn anomaly investigation, tracing the problem to a faulty valve in one of the rocket's first-stage engines.
July 20 marked the 50th anniversary of one of the biggest robotic spaceflight achievements in NASA’s history: the landing of the Viking 1 spacecraft on Mars. It was the first […] The post Lessons…
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Teams have successfully reduced the spin of Katalyst Space’s LINK, which is designed to boost NASA’s Swift to a higher orbital altitude. The post LINK Spacecraft Recovery Progressing for NASA’s…
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