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- Blue Origin joins the orbital data center race SpaceNews · 19 Mar 2026 Blue Origin is the latest company to propose an orbital data center system, filing plans for a constellation of up to 51,600 satellites.
- Live coverage: NASA to roll its SLS rocket back to the launch pad ahead of planned April flight of Artemis 2 Spaceflight Now · 19 Mar 2026 The rollout of the 322-foot-tall rocket is anticipated to take about 12 hours after first motion. NASA hopes to launch the crewed test flight to the Moon no earlier than April 1.
- Register now: The energy imperative driving the push toward orbital data centers SpaceNews · 19 Mar 2026 Join us on March 31 for a virtual event, sponsored by Star Catcher and in partnership with the Commercial Space Federation
- Kratos wins $446 million Space Force contract for missile-tracking ground systems SpaceNews · 19 Mar 2026 The agreement is for ground management and integration for the Resilient Missile Warning and Tracking satellite program
- Portal Space Systems and Paladin Space plan debris removal service SpaceNews · 19 Mar 2026 Portal Space Systems, a company developing maneuverable spacecraft, is partnering with an Australian startup to offer a commercial orbital debris removal service.
- Eileen Collins on what it takes to become Space Shuttle Commander SpaceNews · 19 Mar 2026 In this episode of the Space Minds podcast, host David Ariosto speaks with Eileen Collins, retired NASA astronaut, Air Force colonel and the first woman to pilot the Space Shuttle […]
- American Bald Eagle at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center NASA · 19 Mar 2026 An American bald eagle flies away from its nest and tree at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Friday, March 13, 2026. Bald eagle nesting surveys across NASA Kennedy, Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge, and C...
- How NASA is Collecting Explosion Data for Next Generation Rockets NASA · 19 Mar 2026 Commercial launch providers continue to advance propulsion technology with a renewed focus on liquid oxygen and methane propelled rockets and spacecraft. As systems grow in scale, carrying millions of pounds of propellan...
- NASA Laser Reflecting Instrument Makes GPS Satellite More Accurate NASA · 19 Mar 2026 A NASA laser reflecting technology that will aid Global Positioning System (GPS) accuracy is now operational as of March 9. The instrument, known as a laser retroreflector array, or LRA, launched aboard GPS III SV-09, th...
- NASA to Cover Progress 94 Spacecraft Launch, Space Station Docking NASA · 19 Mar 2026 NASA will provide live coverage of the launch and docking of a Roscosmos cargo spacecraft carrying about three tons of food, fuel, and supplies for the crew aboard the International Space Station. The unpiloted Roscosmos...
- ESA Awards OHB a €248 Million Contract to Build Weather Satellite Constellation European Spaceflight · 19 Mar 2026 German space technology company OHB has been awarded a €248 million contract by the European Space Agency to develop and build 20 small satellites for EUMETSAT’s EPS-Sterna weather satellite constellation. The EPS-Sterna...
- 345th ESA Council: Media information session ESA · 19 Mar 2026 Watch the replay of the media information session where ESA Director General Josef Aschbacher and ESA Council Chair Renato Krpoun outline the key decisions and main outcomes of the Council meeting held in Interlaken, Swi...
- Proba-3’s Coronagraph is alive! ESA · 19 Mar 2026 A month after an anomaly onboard the Proba-3 mission caused ground control to lose contact with the Coronagraph spacecraft, the mission team shares great news: the spacecraft has phoned home, re-establishing the lost con...
- Meet the Platypi: NASA’s Newest Astronaut Candidate Class NASA · 19 Mar 2026 Ten explorers are currently training at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston to become flight-eligible astronauts. Selected in 2025, the astronaut candidates are building the technical and operational skills needed for...
- NASA’s Roman Observatory Passes Final Major Prelaunch Tests NASA · 19 Mar 2026 NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team recently blasted the observatory with extreme sound, shook it, and listened to its electronic hum. Roman passed all three assessments, which aimed to confirm that the observa...
- NASA considering sharp increase in robotic lunar landings SpaceNews · 19 Mar 2026 NASA is proposing a sharp increase in the rate of robotic lunar lander missions, a move that has excited but also puzzled the space community.
- ReOrbit sells two small GEO satellites to SLI SpaceNews · 19 Mar 2026 Finnish satellite manufacturer ReOrbit has signed a contract with asset-financing company SLI for two small geostationary orbit communications satellites.
- Upcoming ESA–Industry events on CM25 implementation ESA · 19 Mar 2026 The European Space Agency, ESA, invites the industrial community to a series of events at which ESA directorates will present the follow-up to the Council Meeting at Ministerial Level 2025, CM25, held in November 2025 in...
- Gateway blueprint ESA · 19 Mar 2026 From the ESA Blogs.
- Apex sells satellite for Japanese technology demonstration mission SpaceNews · 19 Mar 2026 Satellite manufacturer Apex has won a contract from a Japanese company to provide a spacecraft bus for a technology demonstration mission.
- Australia’s “Red Centre” Turns Green NASA · 19 Mar 2026 Abundant rainfall in February and March 2026 transformed the desert landscape of Central Australia.
- Rocket Lab wins $190 million Pentagon deal for hypersonic test flights SpaceNews · 18 Mar 2026 The contract is for 20 hypersonic flight missions over four years
- Space Command classified wargame to include 25 commercial players SpaceNews · 18 Mar 2026 Maj. Gen. Keener: The exercise will help Space Command ‘better understand commercial challenges, requirements, and how we can better work together’
- Live coverage: SpaceX to launch 29 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Spaceflight Now · 18 Mar 2026 The Starlink 10-33 mission is the 35th mission so far in 2026 supporting SpaceX’s low Earth orbit constellation. Liftoff from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station is scheduled for 6:35 a.m. EDT (1035 UTC).
- Curiosity Blog, Sols 4832–4837: Driving the (Contact) Line! NASA · 18 Mar 2026 Written by Catherine O’Connell-Cooper, APXS Strategic Planner and Payload Uplink/Downlink Lead, University of New Brunswick, Canada Earth planning date: Friday, March 13, 2026 We are in our final phase of the boxwork cam...
- Booster 19 concludes initial test campaign on Pad 2 NASASpaceflight · 18 Mar 2026 Starship Flight 12 took another step toward launch, with Booster 19 completing an initial test…
- A private space company has a radical new plan to bag an asteroid Ars Technica · 18 Mar 2026 Company has previously tested its technology on the International Space Station.
- TransAstra aims to move 100-ton asteroid to stable orbit for processing SpaceNews · 18 Mar 2026 SAN FRANCISCO — TransAstra is performing a study, funded by investors and customers, to explore the technical feasibility of moving a 100-metric-ton asteroid to a stable near-Earth orbit. “We want to bring an asteroid to...
- Lava Flows Down Mayon NASA · 18 Mar 2026 The OLI (Operational Land Imager) on Landsat 8 acquired this rare, relatively clear image of Mayon, the most active volcano in the Philippines, on Feb. 26, 2026. The natural-color scene is overlaid with infrared observat...
- From Service to Space Systems: A Pathways Journey to NASA NASA · 18 Mar 2026 For Corey Elmore, the path to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center did not begin in engineering. It began in service. Today he serves as a NASA Pathways engineering intern in the Technical Processes and Tools Branch (KSC-NE-TA) a...
- Solar array deal sheds more light on South Korea’s defense constellation SpaceNews · 18 Mar 2026 South Korea’s plans for a national security constellation are coming into sharper focus after a March 18 solar array supply deal set the stage for a first demonstrator as early as the second half of 2027.
- ESA to Incentivise the Use of European Launchers for LEO Cargo Return Initiative European Spaceflight · 18 Mar 2026 The European Space Agency (ESA) plans to provide a financial incentive to companies awarded Phase 2 contracts under its LEO Cargo Return Services initiative to use European launch services for their demonstration mission...
- NASA’s Hubble Unexpectedly Catches Comet Breaking Up NASA · 18 Mar 2026 In a happy twist of fate, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope just witnessed a comet in the act of breaking apart. The chance of that happening while Hubble watched is extraordinarily minuscule. The findings published Wednesda...
- Hubble unexpectedly catches comet breaking up ESA · 18 Mar 2026 Comet K1, whose full name is Comet C/2025 K1 (ATLAS), had just passed its closest approach to the Sun and was heading out of the Solar System. Though it had been intact just days before, K1 fragmented into at least four...
- Frontier justice: navigating the future legal landscape for private actors in space law SpaceNews · 18 Mar 2026 At the dawn of the Space Age, then President-elect John F. Kennedy spoke to the American people of “a new frontier” of unknown opportunities and perils, unfulfilled hopes and unfilled threats, uncharted science and unsol...
- China signals new target for 2027 asteroid deflection test SpaceNews · 18 Mar 2026 China has identified a new target near-Earth asteroid for its first planetary defense kinetic test mission, which is scheduled to launch in December 2027.
- NASA grappling with planetary science funding shortfall SpaceNews · 18 Mar 2026 NASA’s planetary science program, while spared steep cuts proposed last year, is still facing a funding shortfall that requires “strategic choices” about which missions to continue.
- ESA Impact: our story so far this year ESA · 18 Mar 2026 ESA Impact: our story so far this year
- T-20 days: Smile to launch on 9 April ESA · 18 Mar 2026 The Smile mission is set to launch on a Vega-C rocket from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana on Thursday 9 April at 08:29 CEST/07:29 BST/03:29 local time. Follow along as we communicate on the final preparations for la...
- OHB Sweden to build Sterna weather constellation ESA · 18 Mar 2026 Thanks to the success of the Arctic Weather Satellite prototype and Eumetsat’s recent greenlight to develop a full constellation of similar satellites called Sterna, the European Space Agency has awarded OHB Sweden with...