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Small But Mighty Lab Device Could Transform NASA Research NASA · 19 Feb 2026 A small but mighty piece of lab equipment, about the size of a cellphone, has arrived at the International Space Station after launching with NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 mission. NASA aims to use the off-the-shelf device, call...
Gilat wins 9 million dollar MOD deal for secure defense satcom SpaceDaily · 19 Feb 2026 London, UK (SPX) Feb 18, 2026 Gilat Satellite Networks has secured a 9 million dollar contract from Israel's Ministry of Defense to supply and integrate satellite communication systems and services for defense operations...
AALTO plans Zephyr stratospheric hub in northern Australia and seeks local payload partners SpaceDaily · 19 Feb 2026 Sydney, Australia (SPX) Feb 18, 2026 AALTO HAPS Ltd, an Airbus subsidiary that develops and operates the Zephyr solar-powered Stratocraft, plans to establish its second launch and landing site in northern Australia as it...
UK backs in orbit production of high value materials SpaceDaily · 19 Feb 2026 London, UK (SPX) Feb 17, 2026 The UK Space Agency has placed three new study contracts with British companies to assess how advanced materials could be manufactured in Low Earth Orbit for use back on Earth. The projects...
NRO expands commercial multi-phenomenology surveillance awards SpaceDaily · 19 Feb 2026 Los Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 17, 2026 The National Reconnaissance Office has issued the first three awards under its Strategic Commercial Enhancements Commercial Solutions Opening, advancing the agency's shift toward multi-p...
BlackSky expands Gen-3 assured access for international defense customer SpaceDaily · 19 Feb 2026 Los Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 17, 2026 BlackSky Technology Inc. has secured a new seven figure Assured contract that deepens its relationship with an international defense customer seeking guaranteed access to Gen 2 and Gen 3...
Airbus taps Synspective SAR radar network for expanded Earth imaging SpaceDaily · 19 Feb 2026 Paris, France (SPX) Feb 17, 2026 Airbus Defence and Space has signed a new radar satellite data framework agreement with Japanese Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) specialist Synspective Inc. to broaden its space-based rada...
Slow mantle flow built Antarctica gravity low over tens of millions of years SpaceDaily · 19 Feb 2026 Los Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 18, 2026 Gravity feels stable in everyday life, but its strength varies across the surface of the planet, and it is weakest beneath Antarctica after accounting for Earth rotation. These subtle va...
ST Engineering iDirect and G&S SatCom align network and service management on Intuition SpaceDaily · 19 Feb 2026 Sydney, Australia (SPX) Feb 18, 2026 ST Engineering iDirect has formed a strategic technology partnership with G and S SatCom to create a unified approach to satellite network and service management for operators and ser...
Pale Blue opens Tsukuba site to scale satellite propulsion production SpaceDaily · 19 Feb 2026 Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Feb 18, 2026 Pale Blue has begun operating its new Tsukuba Production Engineering Base to support mass production of satellite propulsion systems and shorten delivery lead times. The Tsukuba Production...
KSAT prepares Hyperion in orbit relay test for satellite data SpaceDaily · 19 Feb 2026 Berlin, Germany (SPX) Feb 18, 2026 Hyperion will move KSATs HYPER concept from design into on orbit demonstration, using relay satellites to act as ground stations in space and shorten the time it takes operators to rece...
Study revisits chances of detecting alien technosignatures SpaceDaily · 19 Feb 2026 Sydney, Australia (SPX) Feb 19, 2026 For more than sixty years, astronomers have searched the sky for signs of advanced extraterrestrial technology, scanning the Milky Way for artificial radio transmissions, optical flas...
Curiosity Blog, Sols 4798-4803: Back for More Science SpaceDaily · 19 Feb 2026 Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 17, 2026 The results from our first visit to the "Nevado Sajama" drill location were intriguing enough to motivate our return to do a deeper dive into the minerals and compounds locked in this rock...
Russian era ends at abandoned launchpad in South American jungle SpaceDaily · 19 Feb 2026 Kourou (AFP) Feb 18, 2026 "Stop. Danger of death. Work in progress." This sign, written in Russian, is still hanging inside an office at the site where Russia once launched its Soyuz rockets from Europe's spaceport in Ko...
NASA teams set for second Artemis II wet dress rehearsal SpaceDaily · 19 Feb 2026 Sydney, Australia (SPX) Feb 17, 2026 NASA is preparing for the second wet dress rehearsal of the Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft ahead of the Artemis II test flight, targeting Thursday, Feb. 19, as the da...
Hypersonica completes milestone hypersonic missile flight test in Norway SpaceDaily · 19 Feb 2026 Los Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 17, 2026 Hypersonica has completed its first hypersonic test flight at Andoya Space in Norway, marking what the company describes as a major step toward a European sovereign hypersonic strike cap...
Agile Space Industries Oversubscribed $17M Series A Accelerates Growth of In-Space Propulsion Capabilities SpaceNews · 19 Feb 2026 02.19.2026 DURANGO, Colo. — Agile Space Industries, a leading provider of in-space chemical propulsion, today announced their Series A equity financing round. The round was led by Caruso Ventures and […]
Japan’s ispace warns of delays in new lunar lander engine SpaceNews · 19 Feb 2026 Japanese lunar company ispace said work on a new engine for its lunar landers is facing delays and that it is keeping open the option of switching engines.
SSC Space Opens Orbital Launch Control Center at Esrange European Spaceflight · 19 Feb 2026 SSC Space has officially opened the Esrange Space Center’s new Orbital Launch Control Center, which will be used to manage future rocket launches from the facility. The Esrange Space Center in northern Sweden has hosted...
Northern Glow Spans Iceland and Canada NASA · 19 Feb 2026 A vivid display of the aurora lit up skies over the Denmark Strait and eastern Canada during a minor geomagnetic storm in February 2026.
Pentagon seeks commercially built GEO spy satellites SpaceNews · 18 Feb 2026 The Defense Innovation Unit plans to select companies to field and operate spacecraft before transferring them to government control within three years
Digital Surface and Terrain Models from Vantor’s Precision3D Product Line Added to Satellite Data Explorer NASA · 18 Feb 2026 The CSDA Program added three digital elevation and digital terrain products from Vantor’s Precision3D Product Line to the Satellite Data Explorer.
Vantor Archive Imagery Added to Satellite Data Explorer NASA · 18 Feb 2026 NASA’s Commercial Satellite Data Acquisition (CSDA) Program announces the addition of imagery from Vantor to its Satellite Data Explorer (SDX) data access and discovery tool.
CSDA Releases New Data Acquisition Request System NASA · 18 Feb 2026 The CSDA Program’s Data Acquisition Request System lets authorized users submit proposals for yet-to-be-collected data from CSDA’s commercial partners.
CSDA Program Announces Eight New Data Agreements NASA · 18 Feb 2026 NASA’s Commercial Satellite Data Acquisition (CSDA) Program announced eight new agreements with seven of its commercial partners to give users more access to near‑global multispectral and synthetic aperture radar data.
Notes from the Field NASA · 18 Feb 2026 Looking at Chlorophyll from Space By Compton “Jim” Tucker NASA scientists are able to study plants from space, but this wasn’t always the case. “I love using satellite data to study the Earth,” says Dr. Compton “Jim” Tuc...
42 Years of Measuring the Sun, the Earth and the Energy in Between NASA · 18 Feb 2026 By Denise Lineberry On Jan. 31, 1958, Explorer 1 became the first satellite launched by the United States. Its primary science instrument, a cosmic ray detector, was designed to measure the radiation environment in Earth...
The Sky Belongs to All of Us NASA · 18 Feb 2026 By Hashima Hasan How did a little girl born in India soon after its independence from the British Empire, become a program scientist for NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, and the first female program scientist for the James...
Measuring the Big Bang with the COBE satellite NASA · 18 Feb 2026 By John Mather The Cosmic Background Explorer satellite (COBE) went up on a Delta rocket on Nov. 18, 1989, into a polar sun-synchronous orbit 900 km up. Our team at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), Ball Aerospace...
Peering Homeward, 1972 NASA · 18 Feb 2026 By Laura Rocchio On July 23, 1972 the first civilian satellite designed to image Earth’s land surfaces was launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. On board the satellite, originally named the Earth Resourc...
My NASA Experience NASA · 18 Feb 2026 By Marcia J. Rieke The development of infrared detector arrays is intertwined with my experiences working on NASA projects. As an astronomer at a university, my interactions with NASA all start with a proposal in respons...
The Gestation of the Hubble NASA · 18 Feb 2026 By Nancy Grace Roman Looking through the atmosphere is like looking through a piece of old stained glass. The glass has defects that distort the image. The atmosphere also has defects that distort the image, but the defe...
NASA to Provide Coverage of Artemis II Wet Dress Rehearsal NASA · 18 Feb 2026 As NASA continues preparations for the Artemis II test flight, the agency will provide coverage Thursday, Feb. 19, of its next wet dress rehearsal, a fueling test of the SLS (Space Launch System) rocket, and hold a news...
Commodity Classic 2026 Hyperwall Schedule NASA · 18 Feb 2026 Commodity Classic, February 25 – 27, 2026 Join NASA in the Exhibit Hall (Booth #3481) for Hyperwall Storytelling by NASA experts. Full Hyperwall Agenda below. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 25 4:30 – 4:50 PMNASA: Your Space and Sci...
Fishing Boats and City Lights NASA · 18 Feb 2026 Fishing boats illuminate the Arabian Sea along India’s west coast with green lights designed to attract squid, shrimp, sardines, and mackerel in this nighttime photograph from the International Space Station, orbiting 25...
Mars Global Localization Pinpoints Perseverance’s Location NASA · 18 Feb 2026 Description These images were part of the first successful use of a new technology called Mars Global Localization, developed at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Using its navigation cameras, NASA’s Perseverance capture...
Perseverance Pinpoints Its Location at ‘Mala Mala’ NASA · 18 Feb 2026 Description Using its navigation cameras, NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover captured the five stereo pairs of images that make up this panorama on Feb. 2, 2026, the 1,762nd day, or sol, of the mission. A new technology call...
NASA’s Perseverance Now Autonomously Pinpoints Its Location on Mars NASA · 18 Feb 2026 There is no GPS at the Red Planet, but a new technology called Mars Global Localization lets Perseverance determine precisely where it is — without human help. Imagine you’re all alone, driving along in a rocky, unforgiv...
I Am Artemis: Katie Oriti NASA · 18 Feb 2026 Listen to this audio excerpt from Katie Oriti, Orion European Service Module Integration Office manager: Growing up in rural America, Katie Oriti could only dream of working for NASA. Not because she wasn’t inspired by t...
NASA’s Hubble Identifies One of Darkest Known Galaxies NASA · 18 Feb 2026 In the vast tapestry of the universe, most galaxies shine brightly across cosmic time and space. Yet a rare class of galaxies remains nearly invisible — low-surface-brightness galaxies dominated by dark matter and contai...

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