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August 20, 2026
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…
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I have lost track of the number of ‘how I became an astronaut’ biographies I have read. They all offer motivations, attempt to explain the inexplicable aspect of space, and […] The post Book Review…
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The European Space Agency has confirmed to European Spaceflight that it is no longer considering the Ariane 6 Block 3 evolution, saying there is “no programme need or justification” for the…
The Government of Canada has issued a new warning in its August update, the 2026 wildfire season is far from over. With more than 4.1 million hectares already burned and 582 fires currently active…
On August 20, 2026, market intelligence disclosures highlighted that the satellite data analytics sector is expanding at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 14.2 percent. The growth curve…
MicroCarb is a joint mission between the UK Space Agency and CNES to measure sources and sinks of carbon, to help better understand the drivers of climate change.
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…
It's the Mariana Trench, reaching 11,000 metres below sea level, recently surpassed by an artificial borehole in Russia…
Welcome back to our series on interstellar travel! In our first installment, we examined attempts to realize nuclear propulsion and how the technology could be used to reach the nearest star. In our…
A new study from Monash University has delivered the most complete and accurate digital map of Earth's windblown sand dunes to date. The research, published in Nature Communications, answers…
On August 20, 2026, satellite communications industry experts Dubi Lever and Juan Deaton highlighted how recent kinetic and electronic attacks against military and commercial teleports are forcing a…
On this day in space! Aug. 20, 1977: NASA launched the Voyager 2 spacecraft on a mission to explore the outer planets.
This geologic feature has been mesmerizing astronauts since 1965.
The yeetcycling math resembles asteroid mining in reverse.
Muon Space closed a $250M Series C to expand its satellite production capacity and broaden the types of missions it can fly. The post Muon Space Raises $250M Series C appeared first on Payload .
Astronomers have discovered a chemically rich collection of sulfur-bearing molecules surrounding the rare massive star HD 87643. The observations include the first detection of sulfur monoxide and…
Press Release No. 41–2026 The European Space Agency (ESA) invites media representatives on 31 August 2026 to an online press briefing on the latest…
A mainline Lufthansa A320neo equipped with the satellite internet technology flew from Frankfurt to Rome.
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…
San Diego, CA – Rock West Composites (RWC) is premiering its recently launched space-grade STRATOPultrusion™ product line at the 2026 Small Satellite Conference this August in Salt Lake City, Utah…
The discovery of a giant chasm in the Antarctic ice is baffling scientists. Here's what we know…
Born in 1915 in England, cosmologist Fred Hoyle attend Cambridge University, where he would later become a professor. Among other things, Hoyle would become known as the man who coined the term big…
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…
China reached a major milestone in its commercial space program this week. Private company LandSpace managed to carry out the first land landing of an orbital rocket stage…
MoM-BH*-1 emits roughly 100 billion Suns' worth of power. Webb measured the spectrum; the Solar-System-scale hydrogen envelope comes from the model that best fits it. The post The James Webb Space…
Every animal that can hear does it more or less the same way. Something inside the body, an eardrum, a stretched membrane, a cluster of tiny hair cells, catches a shift in air pressure and turns it…
James Webb Space Telescope is finding that between the brightest stars, the cosmic skyscrapers, there are much fainter stars, meaning early galaxies are more massive than we believed.
The National Security Science & Technology Strategy (NSSTS) also outlines an array of second-tier or longer-term technologies to watch, notably quantum and biotech.
The deepest isolation isn't about being alone—it's about being silenced among friends. The post Carl Jung once said: “Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable…
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