Author: Marcus Chen

SpaceX is cutting Florida launch frequency for 2026 as Starship prep begins. California’s Vandenberg now leads. 165 Falcon 9 flights ran in 2025.

China delayed the Chang’e 7 Moon mission to 2027, citing need for “absolute success.” The mission includes a lander, rover, orbiter, and a mini-hopper probe.

Trump signed a space transportation policy targeting 1,000 launches yearly by 2030, replacing a 2013 Obama directive. New spaceports on federal land are central to the plan.

NASA and Katalyst Space Technologies have abandoned their robotic mission to rescue the Swift gamma-ray observatory after attitude control failures grounded the Link satellite.

Tomb 209 in Thebes, built for a Nubian official in 754 BCE, tracked 700 years of Egyptian burial shifts using layered skeletal and stratigraphic data.

Copernicus Browser added a wildfire visualization layer on August 4, letting anyone read Sentinel-2 satellite imagery with no technical setup required.

Katalyst Space Technologies’ Link satellite is tumbling 200 miles up with two failed reaction wheels. Engineers are scrambling to save the $30M spacecraft.

A wildfire near Madrid forced evacuation of NASA’s Deep Space Network station in Spain, suspending contact with 40+ missions including Voyager and Webb.

A Bucks County deputy covered his bodycam before allegedly photographing a naked detainee with his iPhone. Other cameras caught him anyway.

ESET found 11 unrevoked Microsoft-signed firmware images, one from 2013, that let novice attackers bypass Secure Boot on Windows and Linux.