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August 21, 2026
The first European Defence Tech Hub Festival opened at Neuhardenberg with more than 200 founders, engineers, soldiers and investors in one hangar. The recurring theme was not invention but…
JAXA has set 20 October for the launch of MMX, the world's first mission designed to return a sample from the Mars region, also demonstrating round-trip Earth–Mars travel technologies."
Taiwan's first flight test of a domestically developed satellite launch vehicle, conducted by the National Chung-Shan Institute of Science and Technology, ended in flight termination shortly after…
The team preparing to launch NASA's Nancy Grace Roman space telescope completed a mission dress rehearsal this Thursday from Florida's Space Coast…
Daniel Biedermann, a partner at NewSpace Capital, gives his insights on what technologies are driving the future of space tech. The post Op-ed: The Technologies That Could Define the Future of Space…
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Friday, August 21The Moon passes 0.6° south of Antares in Scorpius at 1 A.M. EDT. By the time darkness falls this evening, the Moon has already pulled more than 10° away, now standing side by side…
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A series of heat waves in 2026 is breaking records and taking a toll in Europe.
The European Space Agency's (ESA) Proba-3 mission took advantage of the total solar eclipse on August 12, observed by millions of people from Earth, to capture a new series…
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…
The Valencian aerospace cluster Espai Aero CV and the cybersecurity software company ESET have signed a collaboration agreement aimed at boosting cybersecurity in the…
The White House released a new space transportation policy today, the first since 2013. The new policy has a strong emphasis on government support for the commercial space industry and […]
Marco Meniero, taken from Pisa, Italy A total solar eclipse crossed Greenland, Iceland, and Spain on Aug. 12, 2026; from Pisa, Italy, only a partial eclipse was visible, reaching about 94 percent…
A ghostly ribbon of stars winding around a faint galaxy 115 million light-years away is giving astronomers a rare new way to trace one of the universe’s most elusive ingredients: dark matter. The…
The MMX probe will launch on October 20 and attempt to land on Phobos; the mission will also study Deimos and plans to return material to Earth in 2031…
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…
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…
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A mysterious object dubbed Phoebe may be a primordial black hole from the early universe, detected only because it briefly magnified the light of a distant star. On the night of 18 December 2019, a…
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…
Keith’s note: According to this Fact Sheet “Today, President Donald J. Trump signed a National Security Presidential Memorandum to reinvigorate America’s leadership in space transportation and…
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…
Rocket Lab has successfully launched a new Earth observation satellite for the Institute for Q-shu Pioneers of Space (iQPS), using an Electron rocket that placed the…
The MicroCarb mission, jointly developed by the French space agency CNES and the UK Space Agency, aims to characterize greenhouse gas flows…
Arianespace hasn’t publicly disclosed the cost for an Ariane 6 launch.
Japan's ambitious mission to collect and bring back samples from one of Mars' moons will lift off Oct. 20, the space agency announced Thursday.
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China's Chang'e 7 moon probe will launch this weekend on the most ambitious lunar mission in history
China aims to launch its Chang'e 7 moon mission on Aug. 24 to send a lander, a rover, a hopper and a wide range of science experiments to the lunar south pole.
Sypris Electronics has won a major new contract to support an unnamed Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) constellation. The company manufacture power processing units for an unnamed, next-generation satellite…
Muon Space closed a $250 million Series C round as the satellite manufacturer looks to accelerate building large-scale constellations and grow differentiated mission capabilities. This brings the…
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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.
Phantom Space has appointed Worth Wray as chief operating officer with responsibility for day-to-day operations, operational efficiency, capital formation, and scaling business processes, as the…
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