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Priya Nair
Commercial Space & Skywatching Correspondent
Priya Nair covers the commercial space economy and the night sky for Cosmic Herald — from SpaceX, Blue Origin, and Rocket Lab to the meteor showers and eclipses worth setting an alarm for. She spent four years as an industry analyst tracking launch markets and satellite constellations, and is a lifelong amateur astronomer. Her reporting connects the business of space to what readers can see overhead, with practical skywatching guides for every season.
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Articles by Priya Nair
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A New Glenn explosion rattles Blue Origin — and NASA's Moon plans
Commercial · 2026-06-08
Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket detonated during a test on May 28, gutting its launch pad. The company vows to fly again this year; NASA warns the pad itself may not recover until 2…
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China flies a new reusable rocket as its commercial push accelerates
Commercial · 2026-06-08
The maiden flight of the Long March 12B on June 1 marks another step in China's drive toward reusable launchers — and another entrant in an increasingly crowded global market for c…
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What to watch in the June 2026 sky: a planet parade and a vanishing Venus
Stargazing · 2026-06-08
June brings the two brightest planets together at dusk, a Moon that briefly hides Venus, the summer solstice, and the long, deep-sky nights that follow. Here's what to look for and…
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Why most satellites now fly on a faint blue glow
Commercial · 2026-06-08
Electric propulsion trades thrust for efficiency, delivering specific impulses an order of magnitude beyond chemical rockets. It is why modern constellations and deep-space probes …
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How landing boosters rewrote the economics of spaceflight
Commercial · 2026-06-08
Recovering an orbital booster was long assumed to be uneconomic. Falcon 9 disproved that operationally, and the industry has spent the years since reorganising around reuse — with …
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A beginner's guide to the naked-eye sky
Stargazing · 2026-06-08
Naked-eye observing rewards technique far more than equipment. A practical guide to what's worth finding — including June 2026's Venus–Jupiter meeting — and the habits that separat…
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By June, 2026 was already one of the busiest years in launch history
Commercial · 2026-06-08
Barely half over, 2026 had logged 131 orbital launch attempts — driven by a Falcon 9 fleet flying every few days, a surging Chinese sector, and the maiden flight of Europe's heavie…
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A robot is about to grab an aging NASA telescope and push it higher
Commercial · 2026-06-08
Northrop Grumman's Pegasus XL will loft a Katalyst robotic spacecraft to boost the decaying orbit of NASA's Swift Observatory — a real-world test of commercial satellite servicing …
