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India’s GSLV Rocket Successfully Deploys $1.5B NASA-ISRO NISAR Earth Radar Satellite

India’s ISRO placed the NASA-ISRO NISAR Synthetic Aperture Radar satellite into orbit aboard its GSLV rocket, marking the launch of a first-of-its-kind $1.5 billion Earth science mission set to scan the planet twice every 12 days for climate and disaster monitoring.

2025-07-30T05:43:45.505224-07:00

Spaceflight Now

SpaceX Dragon docks at ISS with 5,000+ lb of supplies and boost trunk for 2025 reboosts

2025-08-25T06:47:19.533007-07:00

NASA Spaceflight

FAA Scrubs SpaceX Falcon 9 Launch of NASA’s TRACERS Rideshare from Vandenberg

2025-07-22T08:50:22.230667-07:00

Via Satellite

SpaceX Falcon 9 Deploys NASA’s TRACERS Twins and Rideshare Satellites from Vandenberg

2025-07-23T16:10:28.032452-07:00

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Toronto Star

Chris Hadfield’s space‑race novel Final Orbit tops sci‑fi book roundup Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield’s new novel Final Orbit — a space‑race thriller — tops our latest science‑fiction book roundup. The list also highlights new titles including As the Earth Dreams, Lucky Day and Before Superman, offering a mix of space‑focused and broader speculative fiction.

2025-09-07T04:01:01.231074-07:00

Chris Hadfield’s space‑race novel Final Orbit tops sci‑fi book roundup

Universe Today

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JWST captures thousands of newborn stars in dramatic star‑forming 'mountaintop' image NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope released a new infrared image showing thousands of newborn stars clustered in a dense, glowing wall of gas and dust — a 'craggy, starlit mountaintop' of star formation that reveals fine structures in stellar nurseries only JWST can resolve.

2025-09-05T09:49:50.641331-07:00

JWST captures thousands of newborn stars in dramatic star‑forming 'mountaintop' image

Universe Today

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JWST MIRI captures red, long-wavelength view of the universe’s first galaxies Images from JWST's MIRI instrument capture the universe's earliest galaxies in long-wavelength infrared for the first time, revealing a population of red, dusty or evolved systems. A new Astronomy & Astrophysics study uses these data to refine models of galaxy formation more than 13 billion years ago.

2025-09-02T18:50:06.179219-07:00

JWST MIRI captures red, long-wavelength view of the universe’s first galaxies

Space.com

India’s first astronaut to visit the ISS returns to Lucknow, greeted by celebratory crowds India’s first astronaut to visit the International Space Station returned to Lucknow early this morning, landing around 7:30 and greeted by celebratory crowds. The returning flier said he’d taken roughly 2,000 selfies since arriving—a high-profile homecoming that spotlights India’s expanding human-spaceflight engagement.

2025-09-02T03:05:15.146382-07:00

India’s first astronaut to visit the ISS returns to Lucknow, greeted by celebratory crowds

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NASA to deploy lunar fission reactor by 2030 to power resource extraction NASA plans to deploy a compact fission reactor on the Moon by 2030, prioritizing nuclear surface power as the enabling capability to extract and refine lunar resources for Artemis-era operations. The move elevates high‑capacity, continuous power over smaller RPS and solar approaches to enable sustained ISRU.

2025-08-31T07:01:51.321181-07:00

NASA to deploy lunar fission reactor by 2030 to power resource extraction

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NASA unveils Orion mission control annex ahead of Artemis II lunar flyby NASA has opened a dedicated Orion mission control room — an annex to the historic Mission Control — to manage the technology‑dense Orion capsule ahead of Artemis II’s crewed lunar flyby. The upgrade centralizes new telemetry, avionics and mission systems needed for deep‑space operations.

2025-08-28T06:05:12.219623-07:00

NASA unveils Orion mission control annex ahead of Artemis II lunar flyby

Space.com

JWST images Butterfly Nebula: dying star producing PAHs that may seed exoplanets The James Webb Space Telescope has imaged the Butterfly Nebula, revealing the dying central star is producing abundant polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). These large hydrocarbons could play a key early role in prebiotic chemistry and may help seed forming exoplanetary systems.

2025-08-28T03:06:30.613599-07:00

JWST images Butterfly Nebula: dying star producing PAHs that may seed exoplanets

Ars Technica

With Starship, SpaceX encounters an obstacle that haunted NASA’s space shuttles

2025-08-26T14:11:30.194549-07:00

With Starship, SpaceX encounters an obst

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