Arianespace successfully launches 32 Amazon Leo satellites with the first Ariane 64

 Breaking Ground on Terafab in Texas  - The foundations for an exciting future are being built in Texas. Earlier this year, SpaceX and Tesla announced Terafab – the most epic-chip building effort in the world – combining logic, memory and advanced packaging all under one roof. In April, Tesla broke ground on a new research fab on the North...

 BlackSky reports second quarter 2026 results

 Rocket Lab Successfully Completes 92nd Electron Mission, 8th Launch for iQPS Earth-Imaging Constellation

 Mars’ Doomed Moon May Be Hiding Evidence of an Ancient Catastrophe  - Phobos’ hidden interior may hold the key to how Mars gained its strange inner moon. Phobos has circled Mars for billions of years, but scientists still do not know exactly how the small inner moon came to be. One possibility is that Mars captured it as an asteroid. Another is that Phobos formed from...

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 Where will the total solar eclipse 2026 be visible from?  - Find out where you can experience totality on Aug. 12, 2026, and which countries will experience a partial solar eclipse.

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 ispace Launches New Program “Engineering Master Program”

 NASA’s Eyes software: July release notes  - The Eyes team has many significant upgrades underway, but in the month of July we only updated our augmented reality mobile app Spacecraft AR and released it to the Google Play and Apple App stores. This update included mostly internal…

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 Analysis: SpaceX's Nvidia exclusivity isn't a knock on AMD — it's a land grab in orbit  - SpaceX's earnings call — the first since its IPO disclosure — beat expectations on Aug 4, but the line that moved markets wasn't a revenue figure.

 '1 more step': NASA astronauts conduct 6.5-hour spacewalk to prep ISS for solar array upgrade  - Jessica Meir and Anil Menon completed a 6.5-hour spacewalk to install solar array mounting hardware outside of the International Space Station on Thursday, Aug. 6, 2026.

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 Blue Origin traces origin of huge New Glenn rocket explosion to oxygen valve, CEO says  - Blue Origin has made considerable progress in its New Glenn anomaly investigation, tracing the problem to a faulty valve in one of the rocket's first-stage engines.

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 1 week to go until a dramatic total solar eclipse darkens the skies over Spain, Iceland and Greenland  - Here's what you need to know before the total solar eclipse one week from now.

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 Black Holes May Not Be the Bottomless Pits We Imagined  - A black hole caught feeding on a nearby star kept spitting matter into space even after its outburst nearly faded away. Astronomers led by the University of Warwick have uncovered new details about how black holes consume and expel matter. Their observations suggest that even faint black holes are not...

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 Hughes files for Chapter 11 as Starlink reshapes satellite broadband  - EchoStar Group's broadband business subsidiary Hughes Satellite Systems filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the US on August 3, saying it will use the process to reduce debt and shift more of its focus to enterprise, government, and defense customers. Service is expected to continue during the...

 New leadership takes charge of Space Force Infrastructure PAE  - Space Force Col. Richard R. Beckman assumed leadership as the second Portfolio Acquisition Executive for Infrastructure from Col. Corey J. Klopstein, Aug. 6.

 JOB OPPORTUNITIES: NASA OFFICE OF THE GENERAL COUNSEL  - Vacancy Announcement for Attorney-Adviser

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 Spacewalkers Prepare to Exit Station for Solar Array Mod Work  - NASA is streaming live coverage as two NASA astronauts prepare for a spacewalk outside the International Space Station. The spacewalk is scheduled to begin at approximately 8:35 a.m. EDT and last about six and a half hours. Watch online at: https://www.nasa.gov/live

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 APOD: 2026 August 6 – New Sharpest Image of the Sun Uncovers Instability  - APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 August 6 – 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 photograph of our fascinating…

 Mars dust is toxic. How will future astronauts deal with it?  - Mars dust is known to contain various carcinogens, such as silica and numerous heavy metals. How will future astronauts mitigate the health risks?

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