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Missions
NASA Moves Its Sun-Watching SmallSat Swarm From Vulcan Centaur to Falcon Heavy
NASA has rebooked its six-satellite SunRISE solar radio observatory from a ULA Vulcan Centaur onto a SpaceX Falcon Heavy, a Space Force-sponsored rideshare that will fly the toaster-oven-size CubeSats to just above geosynchronous orbit.
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Missions
China Nets a Falling Rocket at Sea: Long March 10B Pulls Off the First Successful Net-Capture Booster Recovery
On its maiden flight, China's Long March 10B had its spent first stage snagged mid-fall by a net rig on the recovery ship Linghang Zhe, making China the second nation to recover an orbital booster intact — via a method nobody else has pulled off.
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Astronomy
JWST Rules Out Two 'Alien Megastructure' Candidates — They're Just Background Galaxies
JWST spectroscopy shows the infrared glow behind two Project Hephaistos Dyson-sphere candidates comes from unrelated background galaxies, not extraterrestrial engineering.
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NASA & Agencies
India's First Private Orbital Rocket, Skyroot's Vikram-1, Opens Its Launch Window
Skyroot Aerospace's Vikram-1 sits fully stacked at Sriharikota with a July 12–August 4 window to become India's first privately built and launched orbital rocket.
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Military Space
Space Force Completes Its Nine-Portfolio Acquisition Overhaul, Citing a 'Wartime Footing'
The Space Force has finished carving its entire acquisition enterprise into nine mission-focused portfolios controlling up to 92% of contracting authority, its biggest reorg since 2019.
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Stargazing
Sunspot AR4485 Fires an M1.2 Flare as CMEs Set Up a G1-G2 Storm Watch Through Midweek
Departing sunspot AR4485 unleashed an M1.2 flare and a radio blackout before rotating off the disk, while a trailing coronal mass ejection could nudge Earth's geomagnetic field to G1 storm levels late this week.
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Stargazing
The August 2026 Night Sky Guide
August 2026 stacks a rare eclipse double-header around its best night: a moonless Perseid peak on Aug 12-13, Venus at its evening best, and a deep 93%-covered partial lunar eclipse lighting up the Sturgeon Moon on Aug 27-28.
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Astronomy
How Astronomers Measure Cosmic Distances: The Distance Ladder
No single method measures the universe. Astronomers climb a ladder — parallax, then pulsing Cepheid stars, then exploding white dwarfs, then redshift — each rung calibrating the next, and a crack near the top is now cosmology's biggest open problem.
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Science & Discovery
James Webb's Biggest Discoveries So Far
From the most distant confirmed galaxy to overmassive black holes, a disputed biosignature, and proof the Hubble tension is real, here are JWST's most significant verified findings, sourced to NASA, ESA, and peer review.
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Commercial
The World's Spaceports: Why Rockets Launch Where They Do
Latitude, launch azimuth, and downrange safety corridors dictate where a rocket can lift off. A tour of Cape Canaveral, Vandenberg, Baikonur, Kourou, Wenchang, and Mahia shows the physics — and the history — behind each choice.
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Stargazing
The Total Solar Eclipse of August 12, 2026: The Complete Viewing Guide
On August 12, 2026 the Moon's shadow sweeps from the Arctic across Greenland, Iceland, and Spain — the first total solar eclipse to reach mainland Europe since 1999. Exact times, best viewing spots, weather odds, safety rules, and what U.S. skywatchers will and won't see.
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Commercial
Vast's Haven-1 in 2026: a 3D-printed space station preparing to host orbital manufacturing
Vast's Haven-1 station is now targeting Q1 2027 after its Haven Demo pathfinder flew 49 test objectives. The single-module outpost carries metal 3D-printed hardware — and its manufacturing network now spans orbital bioprinting, drug crystallization, and pharma production partners.
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