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Jun 16, 2026
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Issue 106 | Breaking Space News: June 7 - 13, 2026
Spacesuit updates from Prada, Axiom, and robotic arm on ISS needs a joint replacement. The Week in Space News: White House wants to give political appointees broad control over science funding, and UNOOSA-Italy launch Kenya advisory mission to strengthen African space regulation. Plus: weighing blackholes, chemical shield for Earth against solar storms, the first person with a physical disability in orbit, LeoLabs radar in Indo-Pacific tracking Chinese orbital activities and more.
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Jun 8, 2026
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Issue 105 | Breaking Space News: June 1 - 6, 2026
This edition of the Lagrangian closes out Year Two. ISS Air Leak Spike Forces Crew Into SpaceX Dragon And More Research On Rising Atmospheric Risks Of Launch And Re‐Entry. The Week In Space News: China Establishes Industrial Framework To Drive Space‐Based Computing Build‐Out. SpaceX Sets $135 Share Price As It Targets Record $75 Billion Raise, IPO Valuation Reaches $1.77 Trillion. Plus: Muon Space Unveils Satellite Bus For Orbital Data Center Missions, MAVEN Orbiter Declared Dead And More.
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Jun 2, 2026
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Issue 104 | Breaking Space News: May 25 - 31, 2026
Could Electromagnetic Catapults On The Moon Be Misused As Weapons? The Week In Space News: NASA’s Artemis Moon Base Will Span Hundreds Of Square Miles, Explosion Destroys Blue Origin's New Glenn Rocket And Solar Sails Could Reach The Edge Of The Solar System Within Decades? Plus: Northrop Grumman And Apex To Develop Golden Dome’s Space-Based Interceptors, A Colossal Impact May Have Rapidly Deposited Water Ice To Mercury's Polar Craters And More.
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May 26, 2026
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Issue 103 | Breaking Space News: May 18 - 24, 2026
Megaconstellation Launches Are Driving High-Altitude Air-Pollution To Dangerous Levels And The US Space Industry Exhibits Major Dependencies On Chinese Suppliers. The Week In Space: SpaceX Files For IPO, A Solution To The Traveling Salesperson Problem In Deep-Space And A New Route To The Moon That Saves Fuel. Plus: In-Orbit Refueling Test, NASA Re-Org, JPL Shake-Up, European Firms Fill Imagery Gap In Strait Of Hormuz Coverage, NASA Admin Expects A Chinese Circumlunar Flight In 2027 And More.
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May 19, 2026
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Issue 102 | Breaking Space News: May 11 - 17, 2026
A Promising New Method To Detect Alien Life In Deep Space? Meanwhile, Golden Dome Could Cost $1.2 Trillion Over 20 Years, Thanks To Space-Based Interceptors. The Week In Space News: ESA-JAXA Partner On Planetary Defense And China-Europe Join Forces To Study Earth's Magnetosphere. Plus: The Most Detailed Map Of The Universe's Cosmic Web, The First Space‐Based Neutrino Detector, Northrop Grumman's Navigation System For Deep Space, FCC Approval of EchoStar Spectrum Sale To SpaceX And AT&T, Varda's First Commercial, Orbital Pharmaceutical Deal And More.
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May 12, 2026
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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Mar 10, 2026
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Issue 92 | Breaking Space News: Mar 2 - 8, 2026
Is Space Weather Scrambling Alien Signals? Plus, Listen to X‐Ray Data From Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus. The Week in Space: Antarctica’s Rapid Ice Retreat, Evidence of Planet‐Hopping Microbes, the Largest 3D Early‐Universe Map, ESA’s Proba‐3 Delay, Solar Storm Hitting Mars Recorded, UK Space Funding, Solar Space Tech Innovation by Redwire and Rocket Lab, Japan’s Kairos Anomaly, A New Way to Measure Universe’s Expansion and More.
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Mar 3, 2026
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Issue 91 | Breaking Space News: Feb 23 - Mar 1, 2026
Artemis III is Not Going to the Moon, as NASA Announces Massive Mission Overhaul and An Early‐Warning Method for Pinpointing Likely Solar Storm Eruptions. The Week in Space: A Cosmic Brain and a Spotless Sun, the Evolution of Antarctica’s Gravity Anomaly, and 13.7 Million Cosmic Objects—Black Holes, Galaxy Clusters and Supernova Remnants–Mapped. Plus: Tianwen-2 Cruising to Asteroid for Sample Recovery, DARPA's Uncrewed X-68A Readies for Tests, Rocket Lab Launches Australian-Made Hypersonix Scramjet for the US Military, US Space Force Updates and More.
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Feb 24, 2026
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Issue 90 | Breaking Space News: Feb 16 - 22, 2026
Why Are Tatooine‐Like Worlds a Rarity? Meanwhile, SpaceX has Unveiled a Space Situational Awareness (SSA) System, Called Stargaze and First Direct Observation of a Space‐Debris Pollution Plume Reveals Lithium Spike After Falcon 9 Reentry. The Week in Space: GPS on Perseverance Rover, Plans for a Catapult on the Moon to Launch Satellites, Boeing's Starliner Update, Microbial Metal Extraction in Space and Artemis II Delayed Again. Plus: Rheinmetall's Interest in Mynaric, UK's Mandatory Liability Cap for Launch Operators, SatVu's NATO Funding, Pentagon wants Commercial GEO Spy Satellites, Google Earth AI-Vantor Partnership and More.
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Feb 17, 2026
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Issue 89 | Breaking Space News: Feb 9 - 15, 2026
SpaceX to Shift Focus to a Self‐Growing Lunar City and New Analysis Links Megaconstellation Growth to Rising Uncontrolled Debris. The Week in Space: Bennu Asteroid Samples and Planetary Chemistry Models Point to a Universe Rich in Organics but Poor in Habitable Planets, NASA's Twin Launches, China's Mengzhou Tests, and Germany's Expanding Lunar Ambitions. Plus: Researchers Chart One Million Cislunar and Earth‐Orbit Trajectories, U.S. Senate Licensing Reforms, NASA–Roscosmos Talks, Amazon’s LEO Expansion, Vast’s Private Astronaut Mission, and More.
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Feb 9, 2026
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Issue 88 | Breaking Space News: Feb 2 - 8, 2026
Does Dark Matter Exist, or Is Gravity Behaving Differently at Cosmic Scales? The Week in Space News: SpaceX–xAI Merge, Chile Halts Industrial Complex Over Risks to Earth’s Darkest Skies, Scientists Call for Research on Human Reproduction in Space, Soil‐Building Bacteria Survive Toxic Materials in Martian Regolith, Artemis II Delayed to March, UK Physics and Astronomy Face Major Funding Cuts, and SmallSat Alliance Shifts From LEO Advocacy to Integrating U.S. Military Satellite Networks. Plus: Hegseth Visits Blue Origin, Pentagon Highlights Golden Dome as Testbed for Acquisition Reform and Commercial Space Integration, China Conducts Secretive Spaceplane Launch and AI Finds Hundreds of Previously Unidentified Cosmic Anomalies.
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Feb 2, 2026
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Issue 87 | Breaking Space News: Jan 26 - Feb 1, 2026
SpaceX Wants to Put One Million Data-Center Satellites in Orbit and What does “Commercial” Space Mean? The Week in Space: A Russian Satellite Breaks Apart in Orbit, EU Deploys Sovereign Satcom Program, and Scientists Reevaluate Goldilocks Zone in Search for Alien Life. Plus: Lunar Landers Might Contaminate Moon, South Korean Defense Contractor Expands into Europe, US Space Command Brings Commercial Firms Into Classified Wargames, Eutelsat-EQT Deal Falls Apart and More.
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Jan 26, 2026
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Issue 86 | Breaking Space News: Jan 19 - 25, 2026
Atlantic Council Warns that U.S. Faces High Risk of Russian Nuclear and Counterspace Escalation in Orbit, and More Evidence Suggests that Mars Once Had a Large Ocean.The Week in Space: NASA Ends Funding for Planetary Science Advisory Groups, China's Xuntian Telescope Readies for Launch, Earth Hit by Strongest Solar Radiation in Decades, US Space Force Funding Boosted to $40 Billion, Resilient GPS Cancelled, Starfish Space Tapped for End‐of‐Life Satellite Disposal Service. Plus: Blue Origin Announces Enterprise Facing TerraWave Constellation, Open Cosmos Secures Broadband License for Europe, Rocket Lab's Neutron Test Suffers an Implosion, Earthquake Sensors Enable Near‐Real‐Time Tracking of Space Debris and More.
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Jan 20, 2026
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Issue 85 | Breaking Space News: Jan 12 - 18, 2026
Astronauts’ Brains Move and Rotate During Extended Spaceflight and Apparently Viruses and Bacteria Evolve Differently in Space.The Week in Space: Artemis II Readies for Crewed Lunar Mission, China Submits ITU Filings for 193,000 Satellites, NASA Plans to Deploy A Lunar Nuclear Reactor by 2030 and US War Department Invests $1B in L3Harris. ESA and China Resume High‐Level Space Talks in Paris After Nearly a Decade, Plus: York Space Prepares for an IPO, Slingshot Wins Space Force Contract, Luxembourg’s Hydrosat, India's Aule, Japan's Interstellar Technologies, SkyFi and Think Orbital Raise Funding, Parsons Acquires Altamira, and More.
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Jan 12, 2026
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Issue 84 | Breaking Space News: Jan 5 - 11, 2026
RNA May Have Assembled Under Ancient Prebiotic Earth Conditions Without Enzymes Or Cells. The Week In Space: US Lawmakers Have Approved A $24.4 Billion NASA Budget For FY 2026, Rejecting Trump Administration’s Proposed Science Cuts. Cave Training For Chinese Astronauts, The Fastest-Spinning Asteroid, Starless Dark-Matter, And NASA Preps Early Astronaut Return From ISS Due To Medical Emergency. Plus: FCC Has Approved 7,500 More Starlink Satellites, SecWar Hegseth On His "Arsenal Of Freedom" Tour, India’s Unsuccessful PSLV Launch, SkyFi’s On-Demand Access To Vantor’s Imagery And More.
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Jan 5, 2026
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Issue 83 | Breaking Space News: Dec 29, 2025 - Jan 4, 2026
US Scientific Capacity May Take a Hit as Trump Admin Moves to Break-Up NCAR for "Climate Alarmism." The Week in Space: More Space Debris Incidents, ESA Hit by a Cyberattack, Iran, UAE Launch Satellites on a Russian Rideshare, Chinese Launch Updates, and Space Force's Vandenberg Expansion Plans for Heavy-Lift Vehicles. Plus: First-Ever Furnace Ignited in Space at 1000°C and Free‐Floating Exoplanet Detected and Measured.
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Dec 29, 2025
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Issue 82 | Breaking Space News: Dec 22 - 28, 2025
Russia Just Patented a Rotating Artificial‐Gravity Space Station. The Week in Space: Orbital Data-Centers Are Coming to a Night Sky Near You. Plus: Heat Leakage from the Largest US Crypto‐Mining Center, NASA’s Hunt for Critical Minerals from 60,000 Feet, Chinese Reusable Rocket's Failed Booster Recovery, ISRO Launches AST SpaceMobile's Heaviest Satellite, South Korean Innospace's Launch Anomaly and more.
