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- APOD: 2026 October 21 – New Ghosts Revealed in Cassiopeia NASA · 21 Oct 2026 APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 October 21 – New… 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 photo...
- Extratropical Cyclone Whips Past Iceland NASA · 21 Oct 2026 The powerful low-pressure system formed over the North Atlantic out of the remnants of Hurricane Isaias.
- Making SpaceX and Tesla a single company has "a lot of merit," Musk says Arstechnica · 20 Oct 2026 "I do think there's a lot of merit to combining the companies."
- Live coverage: SpaceX to launch 27 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg SFB Spaceflight Now · 20 Oct 2026 The California launch comes hours after the company reported its second quarter of earnings as a publicly traded company. Liftoff from pad 4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base is scheduled for 4:10 p.m. PDT (7:10 p.m. EDT /...
- Does anyone actually want to win the medium-lift race in the United States? Arstechnica · 20 Oct 2026 Ars Technica is here to help with a guide to the medium-lift space race.
- NASA’s SR-1 Freedom Advances with Progress on Nuclear Power Module NASA · 20 Oct 2026 Destined for Mars and beyond, NASA’s Space Reactor-1 (SR-1) Freedom will be humanity’s first fission-powered spacecraft to travel outside Earth’s orbit. Announced during NASA’s “Ignition” event, this mission will demonst...
- Launch Preview: H3, Falcon 9, Electron, and others to launch during busy week NASASpaceflight · 20 Oct 2026 Nine rockets are set to launch this week from California, Florida, New Zealand, Japan, and…
- Astronauts on the Moon could shelter from radiation, micrometeoroids and extreme temperatures inside a lava tube, and NASA is sending a suite called GIMLI to scan beneath the Marius Hills Pit to see whether the pit opens into one SpaceDaily · 20 Oct 2026 Underground caverns could offer lunar explorers their first true shelter, if a buried tunnel system actually exists beneath the volcanic landscape where NASA is about to look.
- NASA Experimental Mars Helicopter Blade Designs Target Longer Flights NASA · 20 Oct 2026 NASA researchers are developing the future of flight on Mars, laying the groundwork for helicopters with the ability to fly higher and farther while conducting science on the Red Planet. Using high-fidelity computer simu...
- NASA Provides Progress Update on Moon Base Rovers NASA · 20 Oct 2026 As NASA works to build the Moon Base, crewed and robotic lunar rovers will play a crucial role during early development through technology demonstrations, astronaut transport, terrain mapping, scientific investigations,...
- Space Rider test model lost following failed drop test European Spaceflight · 20 Oct 2026 A full-scale drop test of the European Space Agency’s Space Rider spaceplane ended abruptly after the test model’s parafoil failed to deploy as expected. This marks the second time this year that a Space Rider drop test...
- Webb Captures Stellar Jets NASA · 20 Oct 2026 An image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope released on Oct. 6, 2026, reveals a cauldron of cosmic creation. Webb has unveiled numerous stars formerly hidden by clouds of dust in a stellar nursery known as NGC 7129,...
- NASA Welcomes Uzbekistan as Newest Artemis Accords Signatory NASA · 20 Oct 2026 The Republic of Uzbekistan became the 77th signatory of the Artemis Accords during a ceremony in Samarkand on Monday, committing to the practical principles that guide safe, transparent, and responsible civil space explo...
- AnySignal to Deliver Space-to-Earth Communications for Three Reflect Orbital Missions SpaceNews · 20 Oct 2026 LOS ANGELES — October 20, 2026 AnySignal, a leading provider of software-defined radios and space-based networking, today announced an agreement with Reflect Orbital to deliver space-to-earth communications for Reflect O...
- Lunar Link complete and ready for a new adventure ESA · 20 Oct 2026 ESA’s Lunar Link telecommunications element has completed its final major integration and testing campaign at Thales Alenia Space in Cannes, France.
- French MPs propose symbolic €1 budget line for VORTEX spaceplane European Spaceflight · 20 Oct 2026 French lawmakers have proposed allocating a symbolic €1 for Dassault Aviation’s VORTEX spaceplane programme in an effort to compel the government to clarify its financial commitments to the project. In a 16 October amend...
- New brain for Galileo ESA · 20 Oct 2026 Twelve Galileo Second Generation (G2) satellites will join the current fleet in the coming years. They will deliver unprecedented positioning, navigation and timing capabilities thanks to an array of new features, includ...
- MMX lifts off to Mars’s moon Phobos ESA · 20 Oct 2026 From the ESA Blogs.
- APOD: 2026 October 20 – An Anticrepuscular Rainbow Fan NASA · 20 Oct 2026 APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 October 20 – An… 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 photog...
- The Human Fingerprint on Earth’s Water Cycle NASA · 20 Oct 2026 Human activities have become intertwined with how water is distributed across the continents. A new study brings their effects into sharper focus.
- Curiosity Blog, Sols 5036-5042: Watching the Clouds Go By NASA · 20 Oct 2026 Written by Alex Innanen, Atmospheric Scientist at York University Earth planning date: Friday, Oct. 9, 2026 Happy New Mars Year! We mark the start of a new year on Mars at the beginning of the northern hemisphere spring,...
- JAXA’s MMX Enroute to Mars To Return Samples of Phobos SpacePolicyOnline.com · 20 Oct 2026 The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency successfully launch the Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) mission this afternoon EDT. MMX will not land on Mars, but instead explore its two moons, Phobos and
- NASA Improves Shock, Vibration Analysis NASA · 19 Oct 2026 Rockets vibrate, shake, and flex intensely as they climb into space, and spacecraft packed with delicate scientific instruments must survive those forces. Before any rocket leaves the ground, NASA engineers work to predi...
- Software NASA · 19 Oct 2026 Research teams at NASA’s Glenn Research Center are involved in developing theory and software to predict the noise from aircraft engines. This software helps engineers to design and analyze new and improved aircraft prop...
- Experimental Facilities NASA · 19 Oct 2026 Research teams at the NASA Glenn Research Center perform experiments in world-class facilities such as the 9- by 15-Foot Low-Speed Wind Tunnel (9 x15 LSWT), the Aero-Acoustic Propulsion Laboratory (AAPL), the Small Hot J...
- NASA’s Simulated Mars Crew Marks One Year Inside Habitat NASA · 19 Oct 2026 The four crew members in NASA’s simulated Mars mission have spent the past year living and working in isolation in a confined habitat at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston.
- In 1965 an astronaut smuggled a corned beef sandwich into orbit, and NASA’s chief asked if he should be disciplined SpaceDaily · 19 Oct 2026 John Young's hidden corned beef sandwich on Gemini III reached NASA's budget hearings, where James Webb called it an inadequate performance and Robert Gilruth defended the crew.
- Instrumentation NASA · 19 Oct 2026 To measure airflow and sound, research teams at the NASA Glenn Research Center use special instrumentation like particle image velocimetry, hot wire anemometry, Raman spectroscopy, microphones in phased arrays or continu...
- Instrumentation NASA · 19 Oct 2026 To measure airflow and sound, research teams at the NASA Glenn Research Center use special instrumentation like particle image velocimetry, hot wire anemometry, Raman spectroscopy, microphones in phased arrays or continu...
- UARX Space troubleshoots anomalies on maiden OTV Flight SpaceNews · 19 Oct 2026 SAN FRANCISCO –Spanish startup UARX Space is remedying anomalies identified during the maiden flight of OSSIE-D, an orbital transfer vehicle (OTV) launched Oct. 1 aboard SpaceX’s Transporter-18 mission. At least […]
- Martian Dawn NASA · 19 Oct 2026 NASA’s Curiosity captures the dawn on Mars – as well as elongated ridges formed by wind erosion, or yardangs – in this close-up from a panorama released on Oct. 6, 2026. This is the most detailed view yet of distant, win...
- Japanese MMX mission set for launch to study Martian moons NASASpaceflight · 19 Oct 2026 The Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) is poised to launch a planetary probe to Mars’s…
- Celebrating BepiColombo, three words at a time ESA · 19 Oct 2026 BepiColombo launched on 20 October 2018. This year, the anniversary is special. After eight years of travelling through the inner Solar System, the ESA/JAXA mission will arrive at Mercury on 9 December, 2026. To celebrat...
- US political uncertainty complicates long-term Artemis commitments, Polish minister says European Spaceflight · 19 Oct 2026 Political and budgetary uncertainty in the United States poses a risk to long-term planning for space exploration programmes, according to a Polish government minister. In a 13 October response to a parliamentary questio...
- PLD Space begins system-level testing of Miura 5 as first three vehicles take shape NASASpaceflight · 19 Oct 2026 PLD Space has entered a new phase ahead of the first demonstration flight of its…
- A Mars-velous decade: Celebrating ten years of TGO ESA · 19 Oct 2026 Ten years after arriving at Mars, ESA’s ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) has grown far beyond its original ambitions. From revealing the martian atmosphere to becoming a vital communications link with the surface, the mis...
- Euclid discovers new comet ESA · 19 Oct 2026 The European Space Agency’s Euclid space telescope has discovered its first previously unknown comet, in images taken between 16 and 24 September 2026.
- Space materials lab marks 10 years of innovation ESA · 19 Oct 2026 Space materials lab marks 10 years of innovation
- Science and technology for the Moon ESA · 19 Oct 2026 Returning to the Moon is about more than reaching the surface. Before we can live and work there long-term, we need to learn how to operate safely and sustainably in the lunar environment, understand its resources and de...
- APOD: 2026 October 19 – Treble Clef: Unusual X-ray Hot Radio Source NASA · 19 Oct 2026 APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 October 19 –… 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...