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August 11, 2026
Space may seem vast and empty, but the region around Earth is becoming increasingly crowded. Thousands of defunct satellites and spacecraft fragments now circle our planet in a growing sea of…
Rocket Lab Corporation today unveiled GHOST, a new containerised, globally deployable launch system enabling suborbital and orbital launches from virtually anywhere…
After Düsseldorf-based defence group Rheinmetall and US company Lockheed Martin signed a memorandum of understanding in early July on joint production of the ATACMS artillery rocket…
Written by Lucy Lim, Planetary Scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Earth planning date: Friday, July 31, 2026 As mentioned in the previous blog, Curiosity has been exploring a…
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has successfully launched the MICHIBIKI No. 7 satellite, part of the Quasi-Zenith Satellite System (QZS-7), aboard the H3 launch vehicle, flight…
An essay weaving together astronomy and poetry to explore how Giacomo Leopardi and Giovanni Pascoli looked at the night sky, transforming stars, moon and meteors... The article Il cielo di…
On 12 August 2026, a rare solar eclipse will cross western Europe. From Spain, Ciel & Espace brings you the event live, right in the heart of the path of totality…
Astrolight and ATMOS Space Cargo have signed a memorandum of understanding to jointly demonstrate the first in-flight optical communications link between a re-entry spacecraft and an orbiting…
Neuraspace has secured €15.6 million - private investment plus Portugal's Recovery and Resilience Plan - to scale its AI-driven space-traffic management and defence-grade space domain awareness.
Here's how to watch the Aug. 12 total solar eclipse live online for free.
COSPAR has re-elected Dr. Pascale Ehrenfreund as president for a four-year term, closing a Florence assembly that drew 3,000 attendees and returned to Italy after a 46-year gap - with the next…
Rwanda has partnered with Planet on a national satellite-data programme, supplying Planet's data to government agencies, universities, and startups for development initiatives across the country.
Rocket Lab has established Rocket Lab Germany to scale domestic satellite and component manufacturing and offer launch on Electron and Neutron, giving European programmes assured access to space.
APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 August 11 – Six… Today’s APOD Archive Submissions Index Search Calendar RSS Education About Discuss APOD Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a…
Tidal and seasonal shifts leave their mark on this crescent-shaped, productive bay in Western Australia’s Kimberley region.
Its technology is based on advances developed at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, which have extended GPS-based navigation to record distances. Altus-1, which…
Space Systems Command states the goal is to demonstrate an integrated capability within the Golden Dome architecture by 2028, though the US official sources consulted do not specify…
This report was originally published on IDRW.org. GalaxEye, the Indian space technology start-up building next-generation Earth Observation capabilities through its proprietary OptoSAR technology…
Earth’s orbit is getting more crowded by the week, and NASA is no longer just talking about the problem. It’s working with industry to build the infrastructure to manage it. From its support of the…
China experienced a launch failure today of their relatively new Long March 7A rocket. Introduced in 2020, the first launch failed, but the track record since then has been perfect. […]
August 10, 2026
On August 10, 2026, a Long March 7A rocket carrying the ChinaSat 4B communications satellite exploded approximately 85 seconds after liftoff from the Wenchang Space Launch Site in Hainan province. […]
A quasar is a supermassive black hole in the act of feeding, and it’s so bright that it drowns out the galaxy it sits in. That is a nuisance if you want to weigh the galaxy and weighing it is…
Mars has plenty of water, and almost all of it is in the wrong place. The poles are rich in ice, the equator, where you would actually want to land, has none within reach. That leaves the…
Time on a large professional telescope is one of the scarcest resources in science. Astronomers wait months for a few hours, and every one of those hours is a running argument with the weather, the…
Rocket Lab plans to start launching even more frequently and flexibly, thanks to a new portable spaceport system called "GHOST," which packages everything into standard shipping containers.
The announcement came in a filing to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ahead of a quarterly investor earnings call on Aug. 10.
 Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) launched MICHIBIKI No. 7, Quasi-Zenith Satellite
