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August 24, 2026
Innovative NASA-funded orbital starshade could help capture first direct images from extrasolar earths.
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Aviación Digital, Sp.- SpaceX reached its 100th orbital launch of the year on 21 August 2026, a milestone reflecting the unprecedented pace of operations at the company founded by…
American aerospace company SpaceX is gradually retiring the Falcon 9 rocket to focus entirely on Starship, no longer accepting exclusive bookings and flights…
NASA astronaut Anil Menon and ESA's Sophie Adenot will carry out another spacewalk from the International Space Station (ISS) this Tuesday to complete the replacement of an antenna…
The U.S. government has issued a new National Space Transportation Policy, which will replace previous versions published in 2004 and 2013.
Portal Space Systems has booked a 2028 Falcon 9 for its Motus Via Sol mission - the debut flight of its Supernova spacecraft, demonstrating its FLARE solar-thermal propulsion in space.
Aviación Digital, Sp.- SpaceX is working to launch, no earlier than August 28, 2026, the fourteenth orbital test flight of its Starship rocket from the Starbase site in Texas. The flight…
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The United States government authorized the possible sale of thousands of guidance sections for the Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System II (APKWS II) for rockets intended for the Forces…
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Airnorth’s Embraer E190 VH-XFC flew a SpaceX recovery team to Christmas Island on 15 August for a crew change following Starship Flight 13’s splashdown in the Indian Ocean. According to the airline…
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August 23, 2026
On August 21, 2026, mission managers from NASA and SpaceX completed the formal Flight Readiness Review (FRR) for the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. The milestone clears the next-generation…
An international team observed a magnetar known as 1E 1547.0–5408 using NASA’s Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE), leading to what could be the first detection of vacuum birefringence taking…
With a scheduled launch date of Aug. 30, NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is… The post NASA’s Roman telescope nears launch, reaches final integration and rehearsal milestones appeared first…
On Aug. 23, 1961, NASA launched the Ranger 1 robotic spacecraft on a precursor mission to test new technologies for later moon missions.
NASA and its commercial partners are making progress on their way to a permanent human presence on the Moon. As part of that, a recent press release and accompanying YouTube video hints they may be…
NASA has chosen 18 technology proposals for its Innovative Advanced Concepts awards to help turn some out-of-the-box ideas into out-of-this-world research.
As NASA plans to land astronauts on the moon with the Artemis IV mission in 2028, it's fun to see this 1st photo of Earth taken from the moon. The post 1st photo of Earth from the moon 60 years ago…
The post APOD: 2026 August 23 – Cassini Approaches Saturn appeared first on NASA Science .
MOXIE's first hour on Mars yielded only 5.4 grams of oxygen, but it crossed a larger threshold: another planet had become the source of a useful consumable. The post A microwave-oven-sized…
This website is currently under construction. Please see the full NASA Common Research Model website for current information. CRM-HL A new version of the CRM has been developed – the high lift CRM…
The 2018 CRM‑NLF semispan test at NASA’s NTF evaluated laminar flow across Reynolds and Mach ranges, advancing cryogenic TSP transition‑visualization methods. The post NTF Test Data appeared first…
This website is currently under construction. Please see the full NASA Common Research Model website for current information. CRM-NLF Geometry The CRM-NLF CAD geometry can be downloaded using the…
This website is currently under construction. Please see the full NASA Common Research Model website for current information. CRM-NLF The experimental test of the NASA Common Research Model with…
A 2025 proposal gives methane rain a role in assembling cell-like membranes on Titan, but every step from surface film to stable vesicle remains untested. The post Titan is the only place besides…
August 22, 2026
On August 20, 2026, NASA and commercial partner Katalyst Space Technologies confirmed that the LINK servicing spacecraft was unable to perform planned docking maneuvers to raise the altitude of the…
This website is currently under construction. Please see the full NASA Common Research Model website for current information. Experimental Approach The experimental approach to a project involves…
This website is currently under construction. Please see the full NASA Common Research Model website for current information. Computational Approach There are numerous variables in a computational…
The Salter Test Flight launched at 8:31 a.m. MDT (10:31 a.m. EDT) Saturday, Aug. 22 from the agency’s balloon launch facility in Fort Sumner, marking the first successful scientific balloon flight…
A tour of Johnson Space Center in Houston shows how NASA and private industry are already working together on the future of human spaceflight.
The document updates US space transportation guidelines for the first time since 2013, and SpaceX already promises to go further: 10,000 Starship flights a year…
SpaceX launched 27 Starlink satellites from California early this morning (Aug. 22), on the 100th mission of the year for the company's Falcon rocket family.
