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Category: Space Exploration
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Space News September 7, 2026: Hubble tracks new decagon encircling Saturn’s south pole
Hubble observations have revealed a giant, evolving 10-sided atmospheric wave encircling Saturn’s south pole, the first large regular-sided jet pattern seen in the planet’s southern hemisphere.
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Space News August 31, 2026: NASA Begins Moon Mission Plume-Surface Interaction Tests
Other Space Missions and Infrastructure this week: NASA Langley has begun a series of plume-surface interaction tests inside a 60-foot spherical vacuum chamber to; and NASA has commissioned Deep Space Station 23 (DSS-23), a new 34-meter…
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Space News August 31, 2026: Cutting-edge infrared space telescope Roman set to launch
Roman Space Telescope Launch Coverage this week: The NASA-led Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is set to launch on 30 August 2026 at 07:26 EDT from NASA’s Kennedy; and This week will see five orbital launches from China, the United…
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Space News August 24, 2026: NASA calls off mission to rescue Swift gamma-ray observatory
Spacecraft Operations and Launch Preparations this week: NASA and Katalyst Space Technologies have abandoned the robotic mission to rescue the Swift gamma-ray telescope; and SpaceX has successfully guided Starship Ship 40 to a location…
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Space News August 24, 2026: Global sand dunes map reveals clues to distant worlds, including Mars
A new Monash University study, published in Nature Communications, has produced the most complete and accurate digital map of Earth’s windblown sand dunes to date.
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Space News August 24, 2026: Firefly Aerospace Onboarded to NASA Spacecraft Processing Operations Contract
Lunar Missions and Moon Exploration Updates this week: Firefly Aerospace announced it was awarded a Spacecraft Processing Operations Contract from NASA, positioning the; and The White House has unveiled a new space policy initiative…
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Space News August 17, 2026: Predict Storm-Causing Active Regions, Lunar orbiter among upcoming NASA, save it caught
Space Exploration this week: NASA’s COFFIES DRIVE Science Center has developed a machine-learning model that predicts the emergence of active; and NASA is expected to award three more CLPS task orders by year-end, including an orbiter…
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Space News August 10, 2026: Moonquakes could reveal hidden water, Meteorite that smashed through, Three companies building, and more
Space Exploration this week: A new study in Science Advances shows that seismic waves from moonquakes can detect and map buried lunar ice by; and A meteorite that crashed through a New Jersey home in July 2024 has been identified as a…
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Space News August 3, 2026: NASA Science Soars During August, NASA’s Swift Sees Wandering Mega, NASA’s Hubble Shows Star Formation, and more
Space Exploration this week: NASA-funded teams will chase the August 12, 2026 total solar eclipse over Greenland, Iceland, and Spain using a; and NASA’s Swift Observatory confirmed a tidal disruption event 30,000 light-years from a…
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Space News July 27, 2026: SpaceX eyes tower catch, Kilometre-scale Jovian moon characterized, Wildfire Burns Through NASA Deep, and more
Space Exploration this week: SpaceX’s 13th Starship test flight ended with an intact, buoyant splashdown in the Indian Ocean, giving engineers; and New multi-instrument observations of Jupiter’s irregular moon Kallichore, combining Hubble…