LAGRANGIAN
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Curated By:
Maharshi Bhattacharya
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May 12, 2026
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26 min read
Issue 101 | Breaking Space News: May 4 - 10, 2026
Pentagon Publishes UFO Footage Now Available For Public Review, And SpaceX Faces Lawsuit From Texas Residents. Meanwhile, It Turns Out That Solar Activity Accelerates Orbital Debris Decay. The Week In Space: Atmosphere Detected Around A Small Kuiper Belt Object, Rapid Land Subsidence Across Mexico City, NASA Tests A High‐Power Electromagnetic Thruster, And Scientists Unveil One Of The Largest Universe Simulations. Plus: NASA Is Funding a Private Company to Mine the Moon. Is That Legal?
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May 5, 2026
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21 min read
Issue 100 | Breaking Space News: Apr 27 - May 3, 2026
Meta Datacenters Will Use Solar Power Beamed From Space And SpaceX Debris Will Impact The Moon In August. The Week In Space: Microgravity Helps Study Heart Failure And Tissue Engineering. AI Processing Comes To Vera Rubin Observatory, Corrosion Detected On Lunar Space Station Modules, NASA's MoonFall Drones For Lunar South Pole and Drone Radar For Ice Hunting On Mars. Plus: Quantum Gravity Model Might Rewrite Origin Of Universe's Inflation, US Space Force Accelerates Golden Dome Efforts With Space Based Interceptors And More.
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Apr 28, 2026
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22 min read
Issue 99 | Breaking Space News: April 20 - 26, 2026
NASA Debuts Its Own ‘NASA Force’ And The $1.45 Trillion US Military Budget Comes With A Major Boost For US Space Force. The Week In Space: Roman Space Telescope Readies For Launch, US FAA Begins Charging User Fees For Commercial Launches, DoW Wants $2.3 Billion To Expand Palantir’s Battlefield AI Tool And Space Force Issues New Awards To SpaceX, Leidos, Maplarge And Twelve Golden Dome Industry Partners. Plus: China Sends Pakistani Satellites To Orbit, Invests In Orbital Data Centers And Looks To Expand Domestic Satellite Production.
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Apr 22, 2026
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22 min read
Issue 98 | Breaking Space News: April 13 - 19, 2026
Up-Next: Orbital Carriers With Military Payloads? Meanwhile White House Issues A Space Nuclear Policy and A Virtual Universe Shows Galaxies Evolving From The Dawn Of Time. The Week In Space: Solar Storm And Space Weather Findings, Oldest Lunar South Pole Craters Hold Highest Likelihood Of Water Ice And Orbital Data Center Bandwagon Picks Up Pace. Plus: US Military Plans For Maneuver Warfare And Pre‐Launch Missile Defense Tools, L3Harris Preemptively Invests To Support Golden Dome, Vast's New Docking System For Industry Adoption And Blue Origin Places Satellite In Wrong Orbit.
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Apr 14, 2026
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47 min read
Issue 97 | Breaking Space News: April 06 - 12, 2026
Planet Labs Restricting Iran Imagery Under US Pressure Sets A Worrying Precedent. Global Night‐Lights Are Flickering And Getting Brighter. The Week In Space News: Worms Fly To ISS For Study, US 2027 Budget Casts New Doubts Over TraCSS Space‐Traffic System, China And DRC Partner On Latter's National Satellite Plan, And US Military Wants Commercial Satellites For War Planning. Plus: EnduroSat-Shield Space Partner To Deploy Inspection Cubesats And Orbital Defense Mothership, Hungary To Get Its First Geosynchronous Satellite, LeoLabs’ New Delta Software Flags Unusual Satellite Behavior, HawkEye 360 Goes Public, And Apex Joins Orbital Datacenter Bandwagon.
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Apr 7, 2026
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54 min read
Issue 96 | Breaking Space News: Mar 30 - Apr 05, 2026
Space Force Funding Surges As NASA Is Targeted Again With Major Budget Reductions for 2027. The Week in Space News: Artemis II Initiates Historic Return To Deep Space, SpaceX Files IPO Targeting Valuation of Over $1.75 Trillion And Another Starlink Satellite Breaks Apart. Plus: EU Financial Driver Of European Space Sector, China Tests Robotic Arm Refueling, European Firms Grow US Presence, Amazon Rebuts SpaceX Collision Risk Claims and More.
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Mar 31, 2026
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24 min read
Issue 95 | Breaking Space News: Mar 23 - 29, 2026
In Space, Sperms Have a Hard Time Finding the Egg. The Week in Space: We May Finally Know Where Sun's Magnetic Energy is Generated, NASA Will Develop a Nuclear‐Powered Interplanetary Spacecraft While Its Artemis, Commercial Space Station Updates Draw Industry Backlash. Plus: Mission Authorization in US to Become Easier, US Satellites Spy on Chinese Counterparts, Ispace Overhauls Lander and Missions, and Space Tech Investment Surges Across Navigation, Propulsion, AI, Mobility, and Spectrum. Meanwhile, New Earth-Like Alien Planets Identified and Can Fiber‐Optic Cables Sense Moonquakes?
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Mar 23, 2026
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62 min read
Issue 94 | Breaking Space News: Mar 16 - 22, 2026
Thousands of Giant Mirrors And Millions of Data Centers Floating in Orbit, Threaten To Permanently Destroy The Night Sky. The Week In Space: Building Blocks of DNA, RNA Found in an Asteroid, and Are Alien Civilizations Intentionally Quiet? Now Private Companies are Part of US Wargaming, Geospatial Intelligence Demand Surges With Hormuz Blockade, Nvidia Unveils Space Computing Platform For On‐Orbit AI Processing, and Blue Origin Files for Thousands of Data Centers in Space. Plus: Debris-Removal-as-a-Service is Now a Thing and More.
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Mar 16, 2026
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59 min read
Issue 93 | Breaking Space News: Mar 9 - 15, 2026
US Lawmakers Push For a Permanent Lunar Base And Extend ISS Operations For Another Two Years. The Week In Space: Self‐Repairing Carbon‐Fiber Material, DART Impact Alters Asteroid Path, China’s Lunar Landing Site, I/ATLAS Updates, Van Allen Probe Crash, Russia’s Venus Mission, And Eutelsat’s Russian Satellite Lease. Plus: SES Teleport in Israel Hit By Missile, Anduril Buys SDA Firm, And More.