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Issue 79 | Breaking Space News: Dec 1 - 7, 2025

Dec 8, 2025

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55 min read

Issue 79 | Breaking Space News: Dec 1 - 7, 2025

Menstrual Cups Successfully Tested in Spaceflight. This Week in Space News: Clocks on Mars Run Faster Than on Earth, ISS Hosts Eight Spacecraft, Microbes Could Transform Martian Soil for 3D‐Printed Habitats, Sugars and Polymers Found on Bennu, and Solar Insights Unearthed from Ancient Chinese Texts. Plus: Russian Cosmonaut Removed from SpaceX Flight, Missile Defense Agency Awards Contracts to Over 1,000 Companies, and Hypersonics, GEO Satellites, Nuclear Microreactors Draw Major Space and Defense Investment.

Lagrangian Despatch
Lagrangian Despatch
Issue 72 | Breaking Space News: Oct 12 - 18, 2025

Oct 19, 2025

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52 min read

Issue 72 | Breaking Space News: Oct 12 - 18, 2025

Low Earth Orbit Nears Satellite Congestion Tipping Point (Unsurprisingly). New Space Armor Promises Protection Against Debris at 17,000 MPH. This Week in Space: Dark Object Photographed, Record Ocean Swells, Expanding Magnetic Weak Spots, and Indian Citizen Scientists Spot a Massive ORC. Plus JPL Layoffs, EU and US Defense Updates, Impulse’s New Lander, and More.

Lagrangian Despatch
Lagrangian Despatch
Issue 70 | Breaking Space News: Sept 28 - Oct 04, 2025

Oct 5, 2025

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56 min read

Issue 70 | Breaking Space News: Sept 28 - Oct 04, 2025

For the First Time, NASA and China's CNSA Coordinated to Avert a Satellite Collision. This Week in Space News: Spectral Image From a Binary Star System, China's Probe Selfie, A Black Hole Jet, Moon-Forming Discs, Tumbleweed Rover Design and Expanding Cooperation Between European and Asia‐Pacific Space Agencies. Plus: NASA Employees Furloughed, Germany, Canada Space Defense Investments, Weather Updates From a Free-Floating Rogue Planet, A Satellite Visualization Tool, and More.

Lagrangian Despatch
Lagrangian Despatch
Issue 69 | Breaking Space News: Sept 21 - 27, 2025

Sep 28, 2025

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46 min read

Issue 69 | Breaking Space News: Sept 21 - 27, 2025

The Largest-Ever Simulation of the Universe Contains 3.4 Billion Galaxies — This Week in Space News: Glimpse of an Eclipse from Space, Space-Based Tsunami Detection, Deep Space Laser Links Across 218 Million Miles, Russia's "Noah's Ark" Capsule and US Concerns Over China's Growth in Space. Plus: Liquid Uranium Propulsion and Nuclear Batteries, a Space‐Based Semiconductor Supply Chain and the Nearest ET Intelligence May be 33,000 Light Years Away.

Lagrangian Despatch
Lagrangian Despatch
Issue 66 | Breaking Space News: Aug 31 - Sept 06, 2025

Sep 7, 2025

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49 min read

Issue 66 | Breaking Space News: Aug 31 - Sept 06, 2025

We Now Have a Simpler Way to Make Oxygen in Space. This Week in Space: A Rectangular Telescope, 3I/ATLAS’ Growing Tail, ISRO’s Parachute Test, New NASA Administrator, and the US-China Lunar Race. Plus: Starship Launch Concerns in Florida, Space Force’s AI and Smallsat Strategy, China’s Military Parade, Kuiper’s First Airline Client, ExxonMobil’s Methane Monitoring, and More.

Lagrangian Despatch
Lagrangian Despatch
Issue 64 | Breaking Space News: Aug 17 - 23, 2025

Aug 24, 2025

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43 min read

Issue 64 | Breaking Space News: Aug 17 - 23, 2025

A Comet May be Responsible Earth’s Water & Starlink to Help Cut Astronomy Interference — This Week in Space: Sun‐Synchronous Orbits, Sinus Issues on the ISS, Uranus’s New Moon; Russian Biosatellite Launch, Korean Cubesat on Artemis 2, Mexican ThumbSat on China’s CAS Space Launch. Plus: Portuguese Spaceport; NASA to Reduce Focus on Climate Science; Schriever Wargames Updates, X‐37B Launch, Space Cotan‐Firefly MoU, Platinum Equity‐Anuvu Takeover, Ancient Starburst Galaxy, Mysterious Radio Bursts & More.

Lagrangian Despatch
Lagrangian Despatch
Issue 63 | Breaking Space News: Aug 10 - 16, 2025

Aug 17, 2025

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38 min read

Issue 63 | Breaking Space News: Aug 10 - 16, 2025

The Eye Of Sauron Is Staring At Us — This Week In Space: What If Life Doesn’t Need Water After All? Dive Into MEO Dynamics, A TRAPPIST Update, NASA’s PUNCH Reaching Final Orbit, & President Trump’s New Executive Order. Plus: Rocket Lab Acquires Geost, Space Force Absorbs Air Force National Guard Units, AUKUS Deep-Space Radar Goes Live, Impulse Space Unveils Caravan, iSpace Unveils China's First Reusable Booster Recovery Barge, Remedy for NASA Swift’s Orbital Decay, Canada's First Commercial Spaceport & Much More.

Lagrangian Despatch
Lagrangian Despatch
Issue 61 | Breaking Space News: July 27 - Aug 02, 2025

Aug 3, 2025

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53 min read

Issue 61 | Breaking Space News: July 27 - Aug 02, 2025

Unprecedented Widespread Freshwater Decline Is Impacting 75% of the Global Population, & Prebiotic Chemistry Is Detected in Space — This Week in Space: Explore the GEO Belt, Exploding Glaciers, Blazars, Starlink’s Astronomical Impact, Super Earth K2-18 Updates, & the NASA–Roscosmos Meeting. Plus: X-37B’s New Mission, Slingshot’s Autonomous AI Agent, Launch Updates from iSpace & Gilmour, a Reinvented Double-Slit Experiment, & More.

Lagrangian Despatch
Lagrangian Despatch
Issue 59 | Breaking Space News: July 13 - 19, 2025

Jul 20, 2025

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50 min read

Issue 59 | Breaking Space News: July 13 - 19, 2025

Earth-Size Worlds May Be Less Common Than Expected — This Week in Space: INVICTUS Spaceplane, Record Breaking Cargo Shipment to the Chinese Space Station, Oxygen & Water From Lunar Soil, Black Hole Merger, & TRACERS Mission. Plus: Trump Admin Makes Climate Report Unavailable, Science Budget Debate in the US, NASA Protest, Space Force Updates, AX-4 Return, Satellite Services & UK's GDP, SES-Intelsat Merger.

Lagrangian Despatch
Lagrangian Despatch
Issue 58 | Breaking Space News: July 06 - 12, 2025

Jul 13, 2025

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49 min read

Issue 58 | Breaking Space News: July 06 - 12, 2025

Aliens Might Be Listening to Earth’s Airports — Or We’re in a Quiet Cosmic Neighborhood. This Week in Space: China’s Orbital Servicing & Neptune Mission, NASA’s Asteroid Deflection Hurdle, a New Interstellar Visitor, Budgetary Support for NASA & TRACSS, Starlink in India, Space Force Exercises, GAO Oversight, Japan's Expansion in Space, and More.

Lagrangian Despatch
Lagrangian Despatch
Issue 56 | Breaking Space News: June 22 - 28, 2025

Jun 29, 2025

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51 min read

Issue 56 | Breaking Space News: June 22 - 28, 2025

World’s Firsts: Images From World's Largest Digital Camera & Photographed Exoplanets — This Week in Space: Bolivian Forests, Mexico-SpaceX Fallout, Shoes Designed in Orbit, NSF Eviction, Uninsured Satellites, Space Force Budget, ULA's Government Compliant Chatbot -RocketGPT, Maxar’s Sentry, Lunar Dust, Radiation-Proof Lichens & More

Lagrangian Despatch
Lagrangian Despatch
Issue 54 | Breaking Space News: June 07 - 14, 2025

Jun 15, 2025

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46 min read

Issue 54 | Breaking Space News: June 07 - 14, 2025

First-Ever Look at the Sun’s South Pole — This Week in Space: The Kármán Line, Concerning Development From Antarctica, Vantablack & Satellite Reflectivity Solutions, Lunar Landing Innovations & China's Collab with Italy, Austria. Plus, NASA Budget Ripples Reach Europe, US Defense Funding Trends, Non-Toxic Propulsion, SES-Intelsat Merger, and More.

Maharshi Bhattacharya
Maharshi Bhattacharya
Issue 53 | Breaking Space News: June 01 - 06, 2025

Jun 8, 2025

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39 min read

Issue 53 | Breaking Space News: June 01 - 06, 2025

Côte d’Ivoire Establishes National Space Agency. This Week in Space: Stunning Images from Mars and the Sun, South Korea’s Venus Mission, Earth’s Atmospheric Heavy Metal Pollution, Global Space Security Updates, EU’s Space Act, US Space Force Launch Upgrades, and More.

Maharshi Bhattacharya
Maharshi Bhattacharya
Issue 52 | Breaking Space News: May 25 - 31, 2025

Jun 1, 2025

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49 min read

Issue 52 | Breaking Space News: May 25 - 31, 2025

Emerging Theory of Everything? Plus, Unprecedented Images of Sun and its Corona—This Week in Space: a Nearly Perfect Cosmic Sphere, Asteroid Landing & Sample Return, Growing Antarctic Ice-Sheets(?), China's Reusable Rocket Tests, Sino-Russian Lunar Power Plant & More.

Maharshi Bhattacharya
Maharshi Bhattacharya
Issue 50 | Breaking Space News: May 11 - 17, 2025

May 18, 2025

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43 min read

Issue 50 | Breaking Space News: May 11 - 17, 2025

Alchemy at CERN: Scientists Transform Lead into Gold—This Week in Space News: The Sound of Black Holes' Evolution, Tracking Titan’s Clouds, China’s AI-Driven Orbital Computing, Experts Weigh in on NASA’s Budget Woes, Pentagon’s Hybrid Space Architecture Updates, & Commercial Updates from Saudi Arabia, Japan & China—Plus Observational Proof of Einstein’s Special Theory & More.

Maharshi Bhattacharya
Maharshi Bhattacharya
Issue 48 | Breaking Space News: Apr 27 - May 03, 2025

May 4, 2025

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43 min read

Issue 48 | Breaking Space News: Apr 27 - May 03, 2025

Lunar Gateway Space Station Project Faces Shutdown as NASA Suffers Historic Budget Cuts. Science Programs Vanish Across the US While Defense Spending Climbs, Military-Commercial Lines Blur. This Week in Space: Psyche Mission Hits a Snag, ESA Deploys Biomass, ISS Dodges Debris, 'Alien Life' Findings Reexamined. SES-Intelsat Merger Under Scrutiny, French Startup’s Space Threat Interceptor, China-Malaysia Spaceport, Ancient Egyptian Milky Way Art, and More.

Maharshi Bhattacharya
Maharshi Bhattacharya
Issue 47 | Breaking Space News: Apr 20 - 26, 2025

Apr 27, 2025

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59 min read

Issue 47 | Breaking Space News: Apr 20 - 26, 2025

On a Positive Note: Chinese Space Agency will Share Lunar Samples with US Universities and African Space Agency was just Inaugurated. This Week in Space News: Asteroid Closeup, 3D Space Microscopes, Martian Precipitation, and Italy's Satellite Fleet to Probe the Early Universe. International Payloads for China's Lunar Mission, Modern Conflicts Making Space A Dangerous Place and is the US Losing its Edge to China in the new Space Race?

Maharshi Bhattacharya
Maharshi Bhattacharya
Issue 46 | Breaking Space News: Apr 13 - 19, 2025

Apr 20, 2025

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55 min read

Issue 46 | Breaking Space News: Apr 13 - 19, 2025

We May Have Found Unprecedented Signs of Life 124 Light Years Away. This Week In Space News: Pentagon's Doctrine on Space Warfare, More Warnings on Gathering Space Junk, NASA's High-Precision Gravity Sensor & an Exoplanet With a Weird Orbit. NASA-Roscosmos Continue Barter, Germany's Military Constellation, US & UK Defense Spend on Hypersonic Research, Missing Dark Matter in a Galaxy & More.

Maharshi Bhattacharya
Maharshi Bhattacharya
Issue 45 | Breaking Space News: Apr 06 - 12, 2025

Apr 13, 2025

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53 min read

Issue 45 | Breaking Space News: Apr 06 - 12, 2025

So The US Wants to Put Orbital Interceptors in Space to Project its Military Power & And North America is Dripping into the Earth's Mantle. This Week in Space News: A New Lunar Rover Design, NASA-Roscosmos Collab, South Korea's Coalmines as Test-bed for Lunar Missions & Nuclear Propulsion Updates. A Sliding Polar Vortex, Unsettling Times for NASA, NOAA & Science in the US, Haven-1's New Payloads, Green Propulsion, Semiconductors, Bacteria Repairing Lunar Bricks & More.

Lagrangian Despatch
Lagrangian Despatch
Issue 43 | Breaking Space News: Mar 23 - 29, 2025

Mar 30, 2025

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60 min read

Issue 43 | Breaking Space News: Mar 23 - 29, 2025

This Week in Space News: Stunning Images from Earth, Mars & Beyond, Wildfire & Methane Monitoring Systems, Chinese Launches & Space Station Updates, NASA Contract Cancellations, US Space Force Updates, AI-Powered Support for the Golden Dome, ESA's Digital Twin Initiative Updates, Hydrogen-Ocean Exoplanets, Organic Molecules on Mars & More.

Lagrangian Despatch
Lagrangian Despatch
Issue 42 | Breaking Space News: Mar 16 - 22, 2025

Mar 23, 2025

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50 min read

Issue 42 | Breaking Space News: Mar 16 - 22, 2025

The Largest 3D Map of the Universe is Telling Us That Dark Energy has Always Been Changing. This Week in Space News: The US Space Ecosystem, Euclid Observatory's Data Dump, Dust Melting the Arctic, Threats to Chilean Astronomical Sites, South Africa-China's Quantum Satellite Link, Botswana's First Satellite, ESA's 2040 Roadmap, Oxygen in the Most Distant Galaxy, Carbon Dioxide in an Exoplanet, Martian Subsurface Water & More.

Lagrangian Despatch
Lagrangian Despatch
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