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August 18, 2026
Firefly Aerospace will be able to bid for new NASA contracts to prepare payloads for missions launching from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. The…
NASA's Starling mission has marked another milestone in spacecraft autonomy by using a new system that determines a satellite's position in orbit using as a reference…
Airtel Africa, in collaboration with Starlink, has launched commercial operations of a satellite-to-mobile service in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The first commercial rollout of its kind…
United Launch Alliance has appointed veteran aerospace industry executive Mark Peller as its next president and chief executive officer, effective immediately, succeeding interim CEO John Elbon, who…
After eleven successful years, Space Tech Expo Europe is moving from Bremen to Frankfurt, with Bremen no longer able to provide sufficient space to accommodate the steadily increasing number of…
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Europa and Enceladus show why the search for life cannot follow sunlight alone: orbital resonances keep gravity flexing their interiors and help preserve oceans beneath the ice. The post Some of the…
On Aug. 18, European Space Agency astronaut Sophie Adenot will become the first French woman ever to perform a spacewalk, and you can watch the historic action live.
The post APOD: 2026 August 18 – Perseids from Perseus appeared first on NASA Science .
The powerful storm delivered extreme rainfall and damaging winds to the state, passing the Island of Hawaiʻi as a category 1 hurricane. The post Lala Batters Hawaii appeared first on NASA Science .
Operators from third countries will have to register in the Union Registry of Space Objects (URSO) and designate legal representatives within the Union, similarly to what…
The surface of Mars is home to some of the most breathtaking and awe-inspiring landscapes in the solar system. This is primarily due to the Red Planet lacking several re-surfacing processes that…
A NASA scientist's decades-long detective hunt to locate the Moon trees—seeds that orbited the lunar surface in 1971 and were scattered across America with no tracking system—has finally revealed…
This report was originally published on IDRW.org. India’s space situational awareness ecosystem is gaining another significant capability with Digantara unveiling MOSAIC, an AI-powered Wide... The…
This report was originally published on IDRW.org. The collaborative milestone between the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration... The post…
Cold welding is real, but vacuum preserves clean metal rather than automatically creating it. Motion, pressure and film removal turn the possibility into a spacecraft design hazard. The post Two…
Astronomers used new MOTHRA telescope in Chile to image the famous Helix Nebula. They found 22 glowing shock waves where stellar debris from a dying star collided with interstellar gas. After…
The deal expands HEO’s NEI network to 50+ in-space sensors, allowing customers to capture more frequent, high-resolution images of objects on orbit—from a wider range of angles. The post HEO Taps…
The phenomenon is expected to form on Wednesday night (19), over Uruguay and Rio Grande do Sul, and move across the country until Saturday (22) The post Extratropical cyclone set to hit several…
A Finnish law grants strangers the right to cross, camp, and forage on private land—a radical inversion of property rights that most countries would find unthinkable. The post Under everyman’s…
Launch cost has fallen dramatically, but Shuttle, Falcon and Starship figures measure different things. The sub-$100/kg case still depends on full reuse, cadence and full payloads. The post Sending…
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August 17, 2026
It was the hottest July recorded on the planet since measurements began in 1850, according to NOAA. The post July 2026 among the hottest months…
Beneath Venice's sinking palaces lies an ancient engineering secret: wood preserved in airless mud becomes harder than stone, transforming a doomed swamp into eternal foundation. The post Venice is…
By Susanne P. Schwenzer, Professor of Planetary Mineralogy at The Open University, UK Earth planning date: Friday, Aug. 7, 2026 This week was very special for the Curiosity team here on Earth as we…
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The announcement comes as the company continues rebuilding the LC-36A pad, damaged by a New Glenn explosion during a test in May…
On August 17, 2026, NASA announced the successful flight demonstration of the Fast Autonomous Lost-in-space Catalog-based Optical Navigation (FALCON) system aboard the agency’s Starling CubeSat…
AI data centres need electricity after sunset. Google and Amazon are helping finance gigawatt-scale storage, but duration, firm generation and flexible demand still matter. The post Solar power…
The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has captured images of NGC 2392 (also known as the Lion Nebula), which Hubble previously imaged in 2000.
This hands-on activity provides a template for elementary students to pack a virtual backpack for an aurora viewing trip, making it highly useful for geography and weather units. The post Pack a…
After last week’s Chang Zheng 7A launch failure, China returns to action with the high-profile… The post Launch Preview: Chang’e 7 headlines week of Chinese and Starlink launches appeared first on…
This hands-on activity lesson plan integrates literacy and science by guiding introductory-level students to read cultural aurora stories and create custom books. The post Northern Lights Storybook…
