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- Blue Origin overviews plan for dual pad ops at Cape Canaveral NASASpaceflight · 15 Aug 2026 As Blue Origin continues restoring its primary launch pad at LC-36A, the company has released…
- Ukrainian Missiles Strike Russian Soyuz Rocket Factory SpacePolicyOnline.com · 15 Aug 2026 Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky confirmed today that Ukrainian Flamingo missiles hit Russia’s Progress production facility in Samara. He cited the Progress Center’s role in producing electronics, but Soyuz rockets...
- Ukraine strikes major Russian rocket factory with cruise missiles Ars Technica · 15 Aug 2026 "Flamingo missiles were used. A good achievement."
- Summer Triangle Corner: Deneb NASA · 15 Aug 2026 Bird constellations abound in the night sky, including Cygnus, the majestic swan. Easy to find with its dazzling stars, it is one of the few constellations that look like its namesake, and it is full of treasures. Visibl...
- APOD: 2026 August 15 – Bright Perseids from Sweden NASA · 15 Aug 2026 APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 August 15 –… 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...
- Rocket Lab advances via series of announcements NASASpaceflight · 15 Aug 2026 Rocket Lab has formally established a new subsidiary in Germany and introduced a containerized mobile…
- NASA Administrator ‘extremely confident’ in Artemis 3 mission in 2027 Spaceflight Now · 14 Aug 2026 The statement of support came in the midst of announcing a NASA-supported, privately run air and space show happening in early November.
- U.S. Space Force adds second surveillance sensor to Japanese constellation SpaceNews · 14 Aug 2026 The Aug. 10 launch of QZS-7 completes bilateral program to host U.S. sensors aboard Japanese navigation satellites
- Wallops gears up for an increase in launches SpaceNews · 14 Aug 2026 With a projected surge in launches from Wallops Island in the coming years, companies and officials say now is the time for infrastructure improvements to benefit companies and their workers.
- Isaacman “Extremely Confident” Artemis III Will Launch in 2027 SpacePolicyOnline.com · 14 Aug 2026 NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman said today he’s “extremely confident” Artemis III will launch next year to test rendezvous and docking operations between Orion and test versions of the two human
- NASA Competition Invites Students to Help Imagine a Future Enabled by Lunar Technologies NASA · 14 Aug 2026 NASA is asking U.S.-based collegiate teams to submit bold, original concepts to the 2027 edition of a student challenge focused on aerospace innovation that could help the agency envision a future on the Moon shaped by n...
- NASA Announces MAX POWER: America’s Newest Aerospace Expo, Airshow NASA · 14 Aug 2026 In honor of America’s historic 250th anniversary, NASA announced on Friday MAX POWER, a public exposition of American air and space innovation, Nov. 7 and Nov. 8, on and near the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida....
- Volunteer Develops Machine-Learning Tool to Identify Rare Clouds NASA · 14 Aug 2026 Certain kinds of clouds are misbehaving – appearing more often and lower in the sky than they used to. To help identify the factors influencing these changes, scientists have asked people around the world with cameras to...
- NASA’s COFFIES Uses AI to Predict Storm-Causing Active Regions on Sun NASA · 14 Aug 2026 As humanity looks to the Moon and stars for future exploration, predicting space weather — conditions in space primarily driven by the Sun — is more important than ever. Now, a team of astrophysicists and data scientists...
- Spire and PlanetiQ win NOAA radio-occultation contracts SpaceNews · 14 Aug 2026 SAN FRANCISCO – The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has awarded contracts to Spire Global and PlanetiQ to provide radio occultation data for terrestrial and space weather forecasts. The NOAA […]
- Policy experts: Europe stuck between "rock and a hard place" on launch Ars Technica · 14 Aug 2026 It turns out that the economics of rocket reuse are pretty, pretty good.
- Total Solar Eclipse in Sunflower Field NASA · 14 Aug 2026 This composite image shows the progression of a total solar eclipse over San Millán de los Caballeros, Spain on, Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2026. A total solar eclipse swept across parts of Greenland, Iceland, northern Russia,...
- Avio Filings Shed Light on FD1 Rocket Demonstrator Test Flight European Spaceflight · 14 Aug 2026 Environmental documents filed in Sardinia have revealed new details about Avio’s planned FD1 suborbital demonstrator flight test. The test will utilize a temporary launch facility being erected on the grounds of the Salt...
- Week in images: 10-14 August 2026 ESA · 14 Aug 2026 Week in images: 10-14 August 2026
- Cheaper launch has moved the spacecraft bottleneck. Mass is out, surface area is in. SpaceNews · 14 Aug 2026 In the beginning, mass constrained spaceflight. We live at the bottom of a gravity well, and the rocket equation punishes every kilogram we try to lift out of it. Mass […]
- Blue Origin outlines plans for second Cape Canaveral launch pad SpaceNews · 14 Aug 2026 Blue Origin disclosed new details about its plans to not only rebuild but also expand its Florida launch site, adding a second pad for a larger version of New Glenn.
- Proba-3’s eclipse hours before totality in Europe ESA · 14 Aug 2026 From the ESA Blogs.
- Intuitive Machines wins contract for three GEO satellites SpaceNews · 14 Aug 2026 Intuitive Machines announced Aug. 13 that it won a $600 million contract from an undisclosed customer for three geostationary orbit communications satellites.
- Rocket Report: Rocket Lab shows off its flexibility; Blue Origin's two-pad plan Ars Technica · 14 Aug 2026 "We’ve never seen launch capacity so constrained."
- A look back at the 2026 total solar eclipse ESA · 14 Aug 2026 On 12 August 2026, Europe witnessed the first total solar eclipse in over two decades. Millions of people were awed by the Moon completely covering the Sun's bright disc, briefly turning day into night and revealing the...
- A double eclipse for Proba-3 ESA · 14 Aug 2026 From the ESA Blogs.
- In-Orbit Services Market to Generate $3 Billion in Revenue Over the Next Decade SpaceNews · 14 Aug 2026 Paris, France | August 2026 – Novaspace’s latest In-Orbit Services Markets report projects that emerging in-orbit services will generate approximately $3 billion in cumulative service revenues over the next decade, highl...
- Bulgaria advances project to launch new space, defense innovation hub SpaceNews · 14 Aug 2026 WARSAW, Poland — Bulgaria’s government has approved a draft memorandum of understanding with local company Starbase Europe to collaborate on the development of a new space and defense innovation hub […]
- APOD: 2026 August 14 – Total Solar Eclipse from Greenland NASA · 14 Aug 2026 APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 August 14 – Total… 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 phot...
- A Sunflower’s View of Totality NASA · 14 Aug 2026 The Moon slid between the Sun and Earth to produce a stunning celestial show visible from Spain in August 2026.
- CesiumAstro buys semiconductor specialist to boost constellation plans SpaceNews · 14 Aug 2026 CesiumAstro is acquiring semiconductor specialist Jariet Technologies, adding more in-house capabilities behind the phased-array antenna specialist’s plans for a future communications constellation.
- Space Force awards five companies $60 million for multi-vendor satellite network tests SpaceNews · 13 Aug 2026 Amazon Leo, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Rocket Lab and York Space will prototype and test connections to the SpaceX-built data network backbone
- NASA’s 737 Reveals New Paint NASA · 13 Aug 2026 NASA’s 737 aircraft was painted this week in Oklahoma as it progresses with modifications for use as a reduced gravity test aircraft for the agency. NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, took ow...
- For West Virginia Engineer, Home Is Where the Heart Is… and NASA, Too NASA · 13 Aug 2026 Growing up in Grafton, West Virginia, engrossed in Star Wars and all things science fiction, Fletcher Newell had an early interest in space exploration. That interest only grew when, in 2013, his fourth-grade class took...
- Space Command expands Alabama footprint as headquarters relocation advances SpaceNews · 13 Aug 2026 More than 100 personnel have already relocated to Redstone Arsenal as construction of billion-dollar Space Command facility is set to begin
- Perseids Meteor Shower NASA · 13 Aug 2026 The constellation Orion is framed by two Perseid meteors in this photo from Aug. 12, 2018, in Cedar Breaks National Monument, Utah. The Perseids – one of the year’s brightest and most popular meteor showers – has been ra...
- An optical link ‘internet’ to connect networks in space SpaceNews · 13 Aug 2026 In this episode, David Ariosto speaks with John Mackey, CEO, co-founder and director of Mbryonics. They discuss building optical links for satellites and other space infrastructure, and what it would […]
- Suborbital Rocket Builder Gravitilab Enters Liquidation European Spaceflight · 13 Aug 2026 UK-based Gravitilab Aerospace Services has entered liquidation, with the company announcing in a brief 5 August LinkedIn post that it had “ceased trading.” Documents filed with Companies House on 5 August, but not made a...
- Maritime Satellite Service Revenues to Reach $3.79 Billion by 2035 as NGSO Reshapes Maritime Connectivity SpaceNews · 13 Aug 2026 Paris, France | July 2026 — The maritime satellite communications market is entering a new phase of growth as next-generation satellite networks transform connectivity at sea. According to Novaspace’s newly […]
- Paragon lays off staff after Gateway cancellation SpaceNews · 13 Aug 2026 A subcontractor for a module that was being developed for NASA’s lunar Gateway has laid off 70 people after NASA halted work on the program.