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August 10, 2026
Press Release N° 38–2026 Media representatives are invited to join online media briefings in English, French and German ahead of the launch of the Meteosat Third Generation (MTG) Imager weather…
A total solar eclipse and the northern lights at the same time? Experts explain why it's possible, but the odds are stacked against it.
Press Release No. 38–2026. Media representatives are invited to online press conferences in English, French and German ahead of the launch of the MTG-I2 weather satellite (…
On 6 August, NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Anil Menon completed a six-hour, 27-minute spacewalk outside the International Space Station. Meir and Menon…
This 2021 Google Maps image shows a mysterious dark triangular smudge in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. However, it turned out to be a small island…
EnduroSat and the Bulgarian government have signed an MoU to redevelop the former Dobroslavtsi airbase into a 290-hectare space and defence development centre 15km from Sofia, bringing…
Redwire's SpaceMD has booked its first commercial microgravity mission on SpaceX's new Starfall reentry capsule, flying drug candidates for in-orbit research before return to Earth.
Here are key timings for some of the eclipse's most popular viewing destinations.
The French Space Agency has secured access to Altair, the ten-satellite, AI-enabled Earth observation constellation being developed and manufactured by Orbitworks, a UAE commercial satellite…
Aviación Digital, Sp.- An eclipse that will last just over two minutes from the ground at its best viewing sites will become, on August 12, an airborne and stratospheric scientific campaign: the…
Somewhere in a Russian drone factory, an engineer looked at a satellite-jamming crisis that has cost the Kremlin countless drones and countless rubles, and solved it with the same tool Boy Scouts…
"Our satellite capabilities for constellations, operations and launch services put us in a unique position to offer innovative solutions," the company stated. Rocket Lab argues…
According to project details published by NASA, the system could prove especially useful for future Moon or Mars missions, bringing to space a technique already…
The company that developed a spacecraft to boost the orbit of a NASA observatory says it is making progress in recovering from its own spacecraft’s problems. The post Katalyst Space makes progress…
August 9, 2026
Satellite IoT company Myriota announced the appointment of Richard Leon as Chief Financial Officer as the company prepares for its next phase of global growth and an upcoming capital raise. […]
Lockheed Martin Announces Successful Static-Fire Test of Next Generation Interceptor's Stage 2 Motor
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has announced the Stage 2 rocket motor for the Next Generation Interceptor (NGI) program has successfully completed a static fire test inside a high-vacuum chamber that...
The Libyan Authority for Scientific Research (LASR) has held a meeting at its Tripoli headquarters to discuss a project to […] The post Libya Takes Its First Steps Towards Launching a National…
For the full fiscal year ended June 30, 2026, Eutelsat Group reported a 69.5 percent surge in revenues from its OneWeb low Earth orbit (LEO) constellation, reaching €297 million ($325 […]
We know of more than 6,000 exoplanets, but we don't know if any could harbor life. Missions like the European PLATO or the Chinese Earth 2.0 promise to discover new exo-Earths […]
Observing an eclipse requires choosing the location carefully. Storms, terrain or wildfires can jeopardise this exceptional moment. Here are the key factors to watch and the tools…
Here is SpacePolicyOnline.com’s list of space policy events for the two weeks August 9-22, 2026 and any insight we can offer about them. The House and Senate are in recess […]
The Perseid summer light show is back—and viewing conditions are especially promising for the Northern Hemisphere.
NASA MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution) mission scientists have uncovered a key puzzle piece in understanding certain types of auroras on Mars, finding that they form in a similar way to…
Composing some 85% of the universe's total mass, dark matter betrays its presence only through gravity, unlike ordinary matter. Yet through new research published in Physical Review D, a team led by…
NASA has released a series of updates on the Artemis program, spanning commercial robotic lunar… The post Artemis progress building lunar return roadmap appeared first on NASASpaceFlight.com .
"Shooting stars", known as the tears of St Lawrence, make August nights magical. Everything you need to know about the Perseids…
