Space news
Sector news aggregated from reference outlets, always linking to the original source.
August 21, 2026
.jpg)
Taiwan's effort to develop its own satellite launcher hit a setback this week.
NASA's Voyager 2 confirmed the discovery of Neptune's rings on August 22, 1989, when it took images of a faint, continuous ring system around the planet. The post Voyager 2 confirms Neptune’s rings…
The memorandum responds to that perception with a change of model in which the White House and its departments and agencies, especially NASA, will stop being the main operator…
Aviación Digital, Sp.- The US space agency laid out on August 19, 2026, at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, the mission's full sequence, described as «one of the…
The team preparing to launch NASA's Nancy Grace Roman space telescope completed a mission dress rehearsal this Thursday from Florida's Space Coast…
The mission, considered "high-risk, high-reward" from the start, was an unprecedented attempt to save a scientific asset that was not designed to be repaired or refueled in…
More than 20 robotic landings and a new fleet of commercial spacecraft are helping NASA turn its permanent Moon Base plans into reality. NASA is moving forward with plans for a durable Moon Base…
-1600.webp)
August 20, 2026
Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player...Boeing is poised to rewrite the saga of its CST-100 Starliner, the seemingly star-crossed capsule that stranded two astronauts at the…
Keith’s note: “Secretary of War” is mentioned 14 times and is mentioned before NASA in a sentence – NASA is mentioned 11 times. Both agencies are clearly surgically attached to […] The post New…
SAN FRANCISCO – California startup Elve has qualified its 100-watt millimeter-wave Traveling Wave Tube Amplifier platform for spaceflight. With U.S. Space Force Small Business Innovation Research…
.jpg)
SpaceX will likely try to make the first-ever catch of its Starship upper stage a few months from now, according to Elon Musk. He had earlier flagged late August as a potential date for the milestone.
SpaceX could face formidable new competition in the space launch market in the wake of China’s LandSpace successfully… The post LandSpace lands reusable Zhuque-3 rocket in first for private Chinese…
SmallSat 2026 Join NASA in the Exhibit Hall (Booth # 635, 835, 641, and 940) for Storytelling by NASA experts. Full Agenda below. MONDAY, AUGUST 24, 9:00 – 10:00 AM WelcomeJose NunezBryceTech’s…
Portal Space Systems on Thursday said it has contacted with SpaceX [SPCX] to launch the company’s Supernova spacecraft in mid-2028, which will feature Portal’s FLARE solar thermal power propulsion…
On Tuesday, Aug. 25, NASA flight engineer Anil Menon and ESA (European Space Agency) flight engineer Sophie Adenot will conduct a spacewalk to finish replacing the space‑to‑ground antenna on the…
In the end, there will be no rescue attempt for NASA's Swift space telescope. The Link spacecraft, tasked with the rescue operation, is not fully under control, so there…
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk announced today that the company will likely attempt to catch the Starship upper stage with its launch tower arms “in a few months.” In a post on X, Musk wrote, “Looks like we…
This summer, NASA has been studying pyrocumulonimbus clouds, or fire-driven thunderstorms. Researchers are flying planes right into the plumes for samples. The post Pyrocumulonimbus clouds are…
A NASA jacket containing Artemis I and II mission patches, along with other NASA patches hangs on the back of a chair on Thursday, Aug. 6, 2026, inside Firing Room 1 of the Rocco A. Petrone Launch…
A jacket decorated with Artemis I and II mission patches, along with other NASA patches hangs on the back of a chair on Thursday, Aug. 6, 2026, inside the Rocco A. Petrone Launch Control Center at…
NASA astronaut L. Gordon Cooper, Jr. took 29 color photographs of the Earth with a 70mm camera as he orbited our planet during the Mercury-Atlas 9 mission in May 1963. Cooper’s view from the window…
On this day in space! Aug. 20, 1977: NASA launched the Voyager 2 spacecraft on a mission to explore the outer planets.
The yeetcycling math resembles asteroid mining in reverse.
While Thornburg said Portal is expected to take up about half of the fairing with its own spacecraft, it’s working with launch integrator Maverick Space Systems to sell the other half to customers…
A 24-satellite launch appears to have taken Starlink beyond 11,000 spacecraft in orbit, while active-satellite indexes continue to put its global share near two-thirds. The post On 19 August 2026…
The airline reaches 150 aircraft with Starlink after completing installation on the Boeing 787-8 fleet and beginning operation of the satellite internet-equipped 787-9
There has been a lot of speculation about how SpaceX is going to achieve its goal of moving from D2C dead zone coverage to taking AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon head-on, tapping into a hundreds of…
Today, August 20, 2026 at 20:57, there will be a bright pass of SpaceX's Starlink satellites (a very close-together train). Often, looking up...
The Swift observatory will now re-enter Earth’s atmosphere in a few months, after a mission to boost it higher failed
The Starlink 10-39 mission includes the 2,000th Starlink satellite to fly this year. Liftoff from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station is scheduled at 11:38 a.m. EDT (1538 UTC).
-1600.webp)
