APOD: 2026 September 20 – Analemma over the Callanish Stones
Explanation: If you went outside at the same time every day and took a picture that included the…
India’s Spacetech Dreams Enter The Commercialisation Phase
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SpaceX launches 27 Starlink satellites to orbit from California (photos)
SpaceX launched yet another batch of its Starlink broadband satellites to orbit today (Sept. 19). A Falcon 9…
A routine quality check on a Moon map turned up a bright spot ringed by a dark halo, and it marked a 222-metre crater that did not exist before spring 2024, the largest newly formed crater yet found anywhere in the solar system
Robert Wagner was doing the kind of work that almost never produces anything. On 24 October 2025 he…
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The September 2026 Full Moon will be known as the Harvest Moon. This celestial event occurs near the…
Space Explorers’ Celebration: Join space legends and visionaries on Oct. 2 in Huntsville
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WAFF) – Space enthusiasts and community leaders will gather in the Rocket City next month to…
In 2014, NASA beamed a high-definition video from the ISS with a laser, testing a faster way to send data through space |
Artists rendering of an OPALS downlink/OPALS ground system | Wikimedia Commons NASA sent a high-definition video from the…
In 2009, NASA fired a 5,000-pound rocket stage into a lunar crater, and found water in Moon dust |
NASA deliberately sent a spent rocket stage crashing into the Moon on October 9, 2009, with the target…
In 1976, NASA fed Martian soil a radioactive “meal”; one Viking experiment produced a signal that initially looked like life |
Artist impression of a Viking orbiter releasing a lander descent capsule/Proof test article of the Viking lander |…
In 2010, NASA’s asteroid probe touched Bennu for seconds, sank almost 20 inches into loose rock and blasted roughly six tons of debris away |
This mosaic of Bennu was assembled from observations gathered by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft that orbited the asteroid for…
SpaceX Targets September 28 For Starship’s First Orbital Flight
It will also be the first time the company is adding V3 satellites to the Starlink constellation.
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Live coverage: SpaceX to launch 27 Starlink V2 Mini satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg – Spaceflight Now
File: SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket stands at Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base ahead…