See the moon phase expected for August 5, 2025 as well as when the next full moon is expected.

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The company is positioning its existing missile defense portfolio as foundation for homeland shield The post Lockheed Martin targets 2028 demo of space-based missile interceptors appeared first on SpaceNews.

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Skyrora has become the first British company to secure a launch license from the U.K.’s Civil Aviation Authority, though a lack of available launch pads could push its first suborbital flight from SaxaVord Spaceport into 2026. The post Skyrora...

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New NASA Administrator Sean Duffy's first project will be an attempt to take American energy dominance to the moon.

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NASA has formally ended a lunar orbiter smallsat mission more than five months after losing contact with it, another blow to the agency’s efforts at low-cost planetary missions. The post NASA writes off Lunar Trailblazer mission appeared first on...

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Scientists have warned that Earth's rotation is set to speed up on Tuesday. While they do not know what is causing it, they fear it could lead to global chaos if unchecked.

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Rochester, N.Y./Ontario, N.Y. — Eoptic Inc. and Starris: Optimax Space Systems announce a partnering agreement to build end-to-end satellite imaging payloads that leverage the knowledge and space heritage of both […] The post Eoptic and Starris establish strategic partnership...

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Four rockets are scheduled to launch from the U.S. this week. SpaceX is planning to… The post Launch Roundup: Vulcan and Electron to launch between Falcon 9 missions appeared first on NASASpaceFlight.com.

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Written by Susanne P. Schwenzer, Professor of Planetary Mineralogy at The Open University, UK Earth planning date: Wednesday, July 30, 2025 The day started with a little celebration of NISAR, a new Earth observation satellite that made it successfully...

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Studying the glowing patterns of Earth’s surface helps us understand human activity, respond to disasters, and witness a changing world.

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Professional learning experiences are integral to the enhancement of classroom instruction. Teachers, at the forefront of Science, Technology, Engineering, & Mathematics (STEM) education, play a key role in the advancement of STEM learning ecosystems and citizen science. On June...

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The small satellite was to map lunar water, but operators lost contact with the spacecraft the day after launch and were unable to recover the mission. NASA’s Lunar Trailblazer ended its mission to the Moon on July 31. Despite...

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Manchester — Military space operators worldwide need to more quickly identify aggressive actions on orbit and be more closely integrated with their counterparts in the air, land and sea domains if they hope to deter threats in the near...

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China completed a third launch of Guowang megaconstellation satellites in eight days Monday, marking the first such mission to involve a commercial satellite manufacturer. The post Long March 12 launches first Guowang satellites developed by private firm appeared first...

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As NASA prepares for its second year-long Mars simulated mission, media are invited to visit the ground-based habitat where the mission will take place, on Friday, Aug. 22, at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. Scheduled to begin...

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New capabilities allow the rover to do science with less energy from its batteries. Thirteen years since Curiosity landed on Mars, engineers are finding ways to make the NASA rover even more productive. The six-wheeled robot has been given...

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In this 30 second exposure photograph, a meteor streaks across the sky during the annual Perseid and Alpha Capricornids meteor showers, Sunday, Aug. 3, 2025, in Spruce Knob, West Virginia.

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The first crew slated to fly in NASA’s Orion spacecraft during the Artemis II mission around the Moon early next year entered their spacecraft for a multi-day training at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Crew donned their...

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We should rethink how to send humans to Mars — a goal now getting much discussion. With proposed budgets and current technical difficulties in human spaceflight development making such a goal unrealistic, it may be time to change the...

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For decades, metal additive manufacturing (AM) has promised to revolutionize aerospace by offering lighter, more complex, and faster-to-produce components. But for much of its history, AM in the space sector […] The post Burloak and MDA Bet Big on...

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