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- Autumn Paints Poland’s Bieszczady Mountains NASA · 19 Oct 2026 Fall color covers the forested slopes of Bieszczady National Park, while patches of polonina, a type of high-mountain meadow, have turned tan.
- Falcon 9 set to launch Bandwagon-5 rideshare mission from Florida NASASpaceflight · 18 Oct 2026 Following on from the successful Transporter 18 mission at the beginning of the month, SpaceX’s…
- What’s Happening in Space Policy October 18-24, 2026 SpacePolicyOnline.com · 18 Oct 2026 Here is SpacePolicyOnline.com’s list of space policy events for the week of October 18-24, 2026 and any insight we can offer about them. The House and Senate are in recess,
- A buried crater under the town of Ames, Oklahoma, that produces oil and gas was dated to the wrong era by about 100 million years, and its new age of about 370 million years puts it close to a mass extinction that wiped out much of the sea’s life SpaceDaily · 18 Oct 2026 Zircon dating moves the buried Ames impact in Oklahoma to about 370 million years ago, close in time to the Late Devonian mass extinction, UT Austin researchers report.
- Live coverage: SpaceX to launch Starfall reentry capsule, 31 customer payloads on Bandwagon-5 rideshare mission Spaceflight Now · 18 Oct 2026 This will be the second launch of SpaceX’s uncrewed reentry capsule, Starfall. Liftoff from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station is scheduled during a one-hour window that opens at 6:30 a.m. EDT (1030 UTC).
- SpaceX working through Starship Flight 15 and 16 milestones NASASpaceflight · 18 Oct 2026 SpaceX is advancing toward its next two Starship missions as the company looks to close…
- APOD: 2026 October 18 – Sonified: Eagle Nebula Pillars NASA · 18 Oct 2026 APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 October 18 –… Today’s APOD Archive Submissions Index Search Calendar RSS Education About Discuss APOD Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograp...
- APOD: 2026 October 17 – 3D 67P NASA · 17 Oct 2026 APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 October 17… Today’s APOD Archive Submissions Index Search Calendar RSS Education About Discuss APOD Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph...
- NASA Names Stephen Cash Marshall Space Flight Center Director NASA · 16 Oct 2026 NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman has named Stephen Cash director of the agency’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, effective Monday, Oct. 19. Cash, a veteran NASA engineer and aerospace executive, ret...
- Artemis II Heat Shield After Splashdown NASA · 16 Oct 2026 Shortly after NASA’s Artemis II mission splashed down on April 10, 2026, U.S. Navy divers captured underwater imagery of the Orion spacecraft’s heat shield. In the months after, the agency measured whether the thermal pr...
- I Am Artemis: Allison Mjoen NASA · 16 Oct 2026 As the supercooled propellant flowed into the core stage, and NASA’s SLS (Space Launch System) rocket roared to life, Allison Mjoen and her family watched with awe and pride. Mjoen, NASA’s operations manager for the agen...
- Blue Origin to add new Florida launch pads, seeks aggressive increase in New Glenn flight rate Spaceflight Now · 16 Oct 2026 The launch infrastructure improvements also include a substantial manufacturing expansion at Rocket Park and the addition of new landing barges.
- UK to Award £25M Space Surveillance Radar Contract in July 2027 European Spaceflight · 16 Oct 2026 The UK Space Agency (UKSA) is expected to award a £25 million contract for a ground-based space surveillance radar in July 2027. The call, published in late September, follows several changes to the government’s procurem...
- NASA’s Hubble Spies Spiral’s Edge NASA · 16 Oct 2026 This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image features the edge-on, intermediate spiral galaxy NGC 1827, located roughly 37 million light-years away in the constellation Columba, the Dove.
- Blue Origin is going all in on the New Glenn rocket Arstechnica · 16 Oct 2026 The infrastructure is designed to support multiple flights per week by the end of the decade.
- Moon Explore sprinter missions ESA · 16 Oct 2026 Europe is preparing for a future in which astronauts, robots and scientific instruments work on and around the Moon. While major missions often capture the headlines, smaller missions can move faster, test new ideas and...
- Small lunar missions, big ambitions ESA · 16 Oct 2026 Europe is preparing for a future in which astronauts, robots and scientific instruments work on and around the Moon. While major missions often capture the headlines, smaller missions can move faster, test new ideas and...
- Earth from Space: West Antarctica ESA · 16 Oct 2026 From the ESA Blogs.
- APOD: 2026 October 16 – Chasing the International Space Station NASA · 16 Oct 2026 APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 October 16 –… Today’s APOD Archive Submissions Index Search Calendar RSS Education About Discuss APOD Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograp...
- Isaias Dims the Gulf Coast NASA · 16 Oct 2026 High-definition images of nighttime lights show where the hurricane knocked out power along the Florida Panhandle and how quickly the lights came back.
- Carbon Fibre Troubles Force Rocket Lab to Delay Neutron Debut to No Earlier Than 2027 NASASpaceflight · 16 Oct 2026 Rocket Lab has delayed its Neutron launch vehicle once again after carbon fibre manufacturing problems…
- JAXA’S MMX Mars Mission Readies for Launch with Two NASA Instruments SpacePolicyOnline.com · 16 Oct 2026 The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) is getting ready to launch its Martian Moons eXploration mission early next week. The spacecraft will collect samples of Phobos, one of the moons
- Oct. 29: Applying AI/SI to the GEOINT Mission SpaceNews · 15 Oct 2026 Join us for a conversation on how machine learning is transforming the GEOINT mission across different markets
- Oct. 29: Applying AI to the GEOINT Mission SpaceNews · 15 Oct 2026 Join us for a conversation on how machine learning is transforming the GEOINT mission across different markets
- NASA to Help Unlock Mysteries of Mars’ Moons in Upcoming Mission NASA · 15 Oct 2026 NASA is playing an important role in JAXA’s (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) MMX (Martian Moons eXploration) mission, to advance our understanding of Mars’ moons and build on the agency’s long history of exploring th...
- Live coverage: SpaceX to launch classified payload for U.S. Space Force Spaceflight Now · 15 Oct 2026 Liftoff from pad 4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California is scheduled for Thursday, Oct. 15, at 4:57 p.m. PDT (7:57 p.m. EDT / 2357 UTC).
- NASA Satellites Observe Historic 2026 El Niño NASA · 15 Oct 2026 A phenomenon rarer than a solar eclipse and more powerful than any single storm system is unfolding this fall, and NASA is tracking it closely. El Niño is a natural climate pattern that emerges roughly every two to seven...
- Power Up: Roll Out Solar Arrays Boost Space Station Power Supply NASA · 15 Oct 2026 From the International Space Station’s unique position 250 miles above Earth, the Sun is a vital source of energy. Solar power supports the station’s life support systems, daily activities, and hundreds of research inves...
- Nobody can agree where space starts, and the 20 kilometres in dispute now matter to astronaut wings, space tourism and hypersonic weapons SpaceDaily · 15 Oct 2026 The 100 km Kármán line is a 1960 convention, the physics gives different answers depending on the question, and the band in dispute now has customers and weapons in it.
- NASA to Conduct Low-Altitude Flights Over Texas Farmland NASA · 15 Oct 2026 A NASA Dynamic Aviation A200 aircraft will conduct low-flying research flights over farmland near Transit, Texas, from Thursday, Oct. 22, through Monday, Nov. 9. These flights will measure gaseous and particulate emissio...
- NASA Welcomes All Ages, Experience Levels for Space Apps Challenge NASA · 15 Oct 2026 Registration is open for the 2026 NASA Space Apps Challenge, a two-day global event on Saturday, Nov. 14 and Sunday, Nov. 15, where teams work to create solutions inspired by NASA’s most ambitious exploration goals and m...
- NASA Awards Enable Research, Technology to Build Future Workforce NASA · 15 Oct 2026 NASA has selected 12 U.S. institutions to receive $12 million to accelerate academic research and technology development in support of the agency’s priorities for exploring the Moon, Mars, and deep space. Through NASA’s...
- New NAVISP activities support resilient transportation in Europe ESA · 15 Oct 2026 On 14 October, at the NAVISP Industry Days in Rome, Italy, the European Space Agency (ESA) signed new contracts with three European companies that will support the development of innovative technologies for resilient rai...
- How NASA is thinking about a moon base SpaceNews · 15 Oct 2026 In this episode, SpaceNews’ Mike Gruss talks with NASA’s Shatel Bhakta, the principal systems engineer for Moon Base, about what’s needed between now and 2028 and the incremental steps to […]
- Rigorous Analysis Confirms NASA’s Artemis II Heat Shield Performance NASA · 15 Oct 2026 NASA’s Artemis II mission sent four astronauts around the Moon and brought them safely back to Earth, laying a foundation for crewed flights to the Moon’s surface. Additional engineering data analysis of the Orion spacec...
- Chandra Finds Possible Origin of ‘Treble Clef’ Waves NASA · 15 Oct 2026 A formation of radio waves looks remarkably like a treble clef in this Oct. 14, 2026, image from NASA’s Chandra X-Ray Observatory. Researchers used Chandra to find that the Treble Clef is likely caused by an outburst fro...
- Agile Space Industries Expands to Seattle Area with New Bellevue Office SpaceNews · 15 Oct 2026 BELLEVUE, Wash., Oct. 15, 2026 — Agile Space Industries, a leading provider of in-space chemical propulsion solutions, has expanded into the Seattle metropolitan area with the opening of a new […]
- Arianespace Targets 23 Nov Ariane 6 Return Following Reported Turbopump Fix European Spaceflight · 15 Oct 2026 Arianespace has announced that the next Ariane 6 launch will take place no earlier than 23 November, marking the rocket’s return to flight after ground testing reportedly revealed an issue with one of its turbopumps. The...
- Trace Gas Orbiter — Facts and figures ESA · 15 Oct 2026 From the ESA Blogs.
- Drilling down for the Moon ESA · 15 Oct 2026 From the ESA Blogs.