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August 13, 2026
Space42 has signed an MoU with Leonardo DRS to integrate its secure satellite connectivity with Leonardo DRS mission systems, advancing sovereign national security in the UAE.
Synspective and Spectee have combined SAR satellite imagery with social-media-derived flood-depth data to map flood extents in greater detail than either source manages alone, for faster disaster…
Europe witnessed a total or partial solar eclipse on 12 August - totality visible from Greenland, Iceland, northern Spain, and northeastern Portugal - and scientists worldwide seized the moment for…
Aviación Digital, Sp.- According to the launch schedule released in August 2026, Europe is preparing for a new mission of its heavy launcher in a decisive year for consolidating the autonomy…
The pre-emptive laugh at one's own hard story looks like resilience but usually functions as traffic control — a decades-old strategy for keeping sympathy at a distance. Here's why the strategy…
A single quaking aspen in central Utah — 47,000 trunks, one root system, roughly 6,000 tonnes — is likely the heaviest living thing on Earth and, at 14,000 to 80,000 years old, among the oldest…
As wellness trends go viral, the real skill isn't the exotic word—it's the radical permission to want nothing from your own time. The post Encyclopaedia Britannica recently introduced English…
APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 August 13 – Total… Today’s APOD Archive Submissions Index Search Calendar RSS Education About Discuss APOD Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a…
By taking over the manufacturing of its own logic and memory chips, SpaceX not only secures its supply against geopolitical crises, but will also control the hardware architecture needed for its…
This non-propulsive spacer will replace the interim cryogenic propulsion stage on Artemis III, keeping the rocket's configuration without the need for modifications. For the third mission…
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From the International Space Station, astronauts photographed Mount Hood and Mount Rainier as wildfire smoke spread across the Pacific Northwest in summer 2026. The post Cascade Volcanoes Shrouded…
On the evening of August 12, 2026, a group of about 50 Astronomy readers witnessed a terrific and mesmerizing total solar eclipse that lasted about 1 minute 30 seconds. Our group consisted of…
This report was originally published on IDRW.org. ISRO has successfully conducted the ground static test of an improved version of the solid booster stage... The post ISRO tests an improved version…
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U.S. Space Command is preparing to host a live-fly exercise in the coming weeks to test advanced maneuver concepts that will inform its strategy for dynamic operations in orbit. The post Space…
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August 12, 2026
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A $28 million contract expansion adds Victus Salo 2 and 3 to an earlier award for responsive-space missions The post Space Force orders two more Impulse Space vehicles for maneuvering demonstrations…
The eROSITA telescope has released its second great catalogue of the X-ray sky with close to two million sources across half the sky, roughly double what it published before. Buried in it is a…
Total solar eclipse August 12! Whether you saw it or not from your location, you can experience it! See the best images from our community here. The post Total solar eclipse August 12, 2026: Best…
Blazars are galaxies with a jet aimed almost directly at us, and they flicker across every part of the spectrum at once. Almost everything we think we know about them comes from short observing…
It's common to see images of astronauts on the International Space Station exercising, running on special treadmills and pedaling cycles designed for tight quarters.
August has one more astronomical treat in store - a deep partial lunar eclipse! The post Prepare for the Lunar Eclipse on August 27-28, 2026 appeared first on Sky & Telescope .
Reading the atmosphere of another world means catching starlight as it filters through that planet's air during a transit. The signal is about one part in a million and a true Earth twin transits…
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Katalyst Space has successfully uploaded a software update to its LINK spacecraft, which will boost NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory into a higher orbit. The new algorithms…
Astronomers have captured an unprecedented image of a cosmic recycling project in progress—fragments of a dying star being busted up, stripped and absorbed into interstellar space.
Gen. Stephen Whiting said there is a demand for offensive capabilities and called on the industry to develop ways to disable the critical nodes of large satellite constellations The post Space…
Aviación Digital, Sp.- SpaceX's launch cadence shows no signs of slowing. On August 11, 2026, the company once again put into orbit another batch of satellites for its Starlink internet network, in…
Mike Fincke trained on the Boeing CST-100 Starliner side of the Commercial Crew Program from January 2019 until his reassignment to the SpaceX Crew-11 mission. His fourth and final mission to the…
The building blocks of rocky planets may have begun forming just 100 million years after the Big Bang—long before the first galaxies even existed—according to new research from the University of…
Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic suborbital space plane program has announced a higher fee for per person spaceflight. Michael Colglazier, CEO of Virgin Galactic, said that the company’s…
How bad timing, a studio in financial turmoil, and a movie that looked nothing like the cartoon conspired to defeat the most powerful man in the universe.
The Mission Robotic Vehicle is making the first attempt to attach a new thruster to an aging satellite.
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