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August 15, 2026
Aviación Digital, Sp.- On 14 August 2026, at an event held at the Kennedy Space Center (Florida), NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman sent a message of optimism about the…
NASA's monthly bone-loss range shows the scale of the Mars-transit risk, but individual outcomes depend on duration, exercise, nutrition and whether loss continues linearly beyond six months. The…
A country desperate to kill the educational arms race it created now deploys midnight raids to drag children out of study halls. The post Six government employees drive into a Seoul neighbourhood at…
The Hillsborough meteorite was collected within minutes of falling through a New Jersey home, giving researchers a rare look at briny asteroid chemistry and a diverse set of extraterrestrial amino…
Voyager 1's four-watt annual power decline is real, but the mission has also survived failed memory, ageing thrusters and a deliberate programme of instrument shutdowns. The post Voyager 1 isn’t…
APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 August 15 –… Today’s APOD Archive Submissions Index Search Calendar RSS Education About Discuss APOD Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a…
ISO 1 is used in nanotechnology. The fact that the room is for integrating propulsion systems and satellite platforms suggests it could be, at minimum, ISO 8 level, although…
Rocket Lab has formally established a new subsidiary in Germany and introduced a containerized mobile… The post Rocket Lab advances via series of announcements appeared first on NASASpaceFlight.com .
Luxor will receive about 6 minutes 22 seconds of totality on 2 August 2027, just one second shy of the eclipse's global maximum. No longer total solar eclipse occurs anywhere on Earth until 2114…
Webb detected crystalline water ice where radiation should erase its lattice within about 15 days, exposing a rapid contest between damage and repair. The post James Webb has found patches of fresh…
A speeding ticket in Finland might cost you a few hundred euros—or your annual salary, depending on how much you earn. The post Finnish police do not simply look up a fixed speeding fine: for speeds…
From launchpads to low Earth orbit and beyond, space companies and their affiliates are deploying a familiar marketing tactic—with a new twist. In a space economy projected to reach US$1.8 trillion…
A new study modelling Reflect Orbital's proposed constellation of giant orbital mirrors finds their light pollution would be severe. A single 54 metre satellite would appear four magnitudes brighter…
August 14, 2026
A team of scientists led by the University of Washington has studied how star formation is declining in the Andromeda galaxy using highly detailed Hubble surveys.
The epicenter was located near the island of Flores, in the province of East Nusa Tenggara, a region known for its intense seismic activity The post Earthquakes strike Indonesia and Spain…
The statement of support came in the midst of announcing a NASA-supported, privately run air and space show happening in early November.
A new composite image combining data from Chandra, Hubble, Webb and the retired Spitzer telescope has helped astronomers solve a long standing puzzle in the Tarantula Nebula, a star forming region…
Largest Italian radio telescope located on an out of the way mountain plateau in southern Sardinia sheds light on the cosmos’ still misunderstood Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs).
Using unique equipment installed on NASA's WB-57 aircraft flying above heavy clouds off the coast of Iceland, a Southwest Research Institute-led team successfully observed a total solar eclipse on…
The Aug. 10 launch of QZS-7 completes bilateral program to host U.S. sensors aboard Japanese navigation satellites The post U.S. Space Force adds second surveillance sensor to Japanese constellation…
A meteorite found in Algeria has opened a rare window into nearly 2 billion years of Mars’ history that had largely been missing from the geological record. Researchers at Boston College have…
With a projected surge in launches from Wallops Island in the coming years, companies and officials say now is the time for infrastructure improvements to benefit companies and their workers. The…
NASA announced today (Aug. 14) that it will hold a two-day aerospace expo this November — an event whose name should draw a chuckle from "Simpsons" fans.
NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman said today he’s “extremely confident” Artemis III will launch next year to test rendezvous and docking operations between Orion and test versions of the two human […]
This website is currently under construction. Please see the full NASA Common Research Model website for current information. High Speed CRM The original Common Research Model was the high speed…
"We're not just studying astronomical objects anymore; we're using them to test the laws of nature."
On August 14, 2026, space consulting and market intelligence firm Novaspace published its latest In-Orbit Services Markets report, forecasting that emerging in-orbit satellite services will generate…
Launch Canada is once again about to kick off the Launch Canada Challenge student rocketry competition for its fifth year.
On August 14, 2026, Norges Bank Investment Management, manager of Norway’s Sovereign Wealth Fund, disclosed an expanded equity position in direct-to-device (D2D) satellite communications operator…
Physicists have found some of the strongest experimental evidence yet that a fundamental property of protons and neutrons may not be associated with the three quarks that make…
