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U.S. Air Force expands Blue Origin rocket cargo contract

The Air Force Research Laboratory increased by $11.7 million Blue Origin’s contract to study the use of space rockets for point-to-point deliveries

APOD: 2026 August 2 – A Fire Rainbow over West Virginia

APOD: 2026 August 2 – A Fire Rainbow over West Virginia

Boeing’s Starliner set for potential 2026 cargo run to ISS

Boeing CEO Kelly Ortberg has noted redesign work on the company’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft is…

Space Force awards K2 Space $22.9 million for orbital laser communications demonstration

Two K2 satellites will host optical terminals intended to connect military systems in orbit

China launches secretive TJS-27 pair, orbits next-gen Tianlian relay sat

HELSINKI — China sent a new pair of secretive satellites into a programmatically new orbit Wednesday, while also upgrading its on-orbit communications relay capabilities. A Long March 6A rocket lifted […]

APOD: 2026 August 1 – Buck Moon and Belt of Venus

APOD: 2026 August 1 – Buck Moon and Belt of Venus

What’s Up: August 2026 Skywatching Tips from NASA

A solar eclipse, the Perseids, bright Venus after sunset, and a deep partial lunar eclipse highlight August’s skywatching. Skywatching Highlights Transcript A solar eclipse, one of the year’s best meteor showers, Venus at its brightest in the evening sky, and a lunar eclipse to close out the month. That’s “What’s Up” for August. On Aug. […]

Starbase Pad 1 Retrofits Progress as Block 3 Flights Start

While SpaceX has now flown two flights out of the newly designed Pad 2, crews…

NASA to Host Florida Event Celebrating American Air, Space Leadership

NASA will hold a news conference at 2:30 p.m. EDT, Friday, Aug. 14, live from the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, and media and digital creators are invited to attend in person. The announcement, held in the XLV Hangar at the Shuttle Landing Facility, will preview a new event at NASA Kennedy later this […]

Sending repurposed Mars rover to the moon could cost more than $1 billion

Converting an engineering model of a Mars rover into an actual lunar rover could cost NASA more than $1 billion, an estimate strongly rejected by the agency’s administrator.