Carina Nebula — star formation region photographed by JWST

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analysisNovember 3, 2025

Japan's SLIM Mission: The 'Moon Sniper' That Landed Within 100 Meters of Its Target

Japan's SLIM 'Moon Sniper' touched down 55 meters from its target in Shioli crater, then flipped. Inside the pinpoint landing tech and what went sideways.

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NASA's Psyche spacecraft with its large solar arrays, designed to explore a metal-rich asteroid

analysisNovember 3, 2025

NASA's Psyche Mission: Visiting a World Made of Metal

NASA's Psyche spacecraft launched in Oct 2023 for asteroid 16 Psyche — a metal world that may be a dead planet's core. Hall-effect thrusters, arrival in 2029, and the science.

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newsOctober 31, 2025

Axiom Space: Building the World's First Commercial Space Station

How Axiom Space plans to build the world's first commercial space station by docking modules to the ISS first, then detaching to form a private orbital outpost.

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opinionOctober 27, 2025

Planetary Protection: Why We Sterilize Spacecraft Before Visiting Other Worlds

Inside NASA's cleanrooms: how spacecraft bound for Mars are baked, scrubbed, and assayed to kill microbes, the COSPAR rules, and why contamination could ruin astrobiology.

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ESA's Ariane 6 rocket launching from the Guiana Space Centre in Kourou

newsOctober 22, 2025

ESA's Greatest Missions: Rosetta, Copernicus, Galileo, and Europe's Path to the Moon (Part 2)

From Rosetta's comet landing to Copernicus monitoring Earth and Galileo guiding 4 billion devices, explore ESA's flagship missions and Europe's lunar future.

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newsOctober 22, 2025

Les plus grandes missions de l'ESA : Rosetta, Copernicus, Galileo et le chemin de l'Europe vers la Lune (Partie 2)

De l'atterrissage de Rosetta sur une comete a Copernicus surveillant la Terre et Galileo guidant 4 milliards d'appareils : les missions phares de l'ESA et l'avenir lunaire de l'Europe.

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newsOctober 22, 2025

Die größten Missionen der ESA: Rosetta, Copernicus, Galileo und Europas Weg zum Mond (Teil 2)

Von Rosettas Kometenlandung über Copernicus als Erdbeobachtungssystem bis zu Galileo mit 4 Milliarden Geräten — die Flaggschiffmissionen der ESA und Europas Zukunft auf dem Mond.

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newsOctober 20, 2025

India's Space Startup Boom: The New Generation After ISRO

Skyroot, Agnikul, Pixxel, and Dhruva Space lead 190+ Indian startups with $400M+ in funding — how IN-SPACe unlocked a private space sector rivaling the US and China.

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An ISRO rocket launching from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, India

newsOctober 20, 2025

भारत का अंतरिक्ष स्टार्टअप बूम: ISRO के बाद की नई पीढ़ी

दिग्गज की छाया से बाहर दशकों तक, भारत की अंतरिक्ष कहानी का एक ही नायक था: भारतीय अंतरिक्ष अनुसंधान संगठन। ISRO ने बेहद कम बजट पर उपग्रह बनाए, हॉलीवुड फ़िल्म की…

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The crew of Space Shuttle Challenger mission STS-51L in their official NASA portrait

analysisOctober 15, 2025

Challenger and Columbia: Tragedies That Made Space Safer

Challenger 1986 and Columbia 2003: what really caused the O-ring failure and foam strike, the 14 lives lost, and how the disasters rewired NASA's safety culture.

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newsOctober 15, 2025

Starlink Direct-to-Cell: Ending Dead Zones from Space

Starlink Direct-to-Cell connects unmodified phones to satellites via the T-Mobile partnership, ending dead zones across 500,000 sq miles of the US. How it actually works.

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opinionOctober 9, 2025

Space Debris: Who's Responsible When Satellites Collide?

When Iridium 33 and Cosmos 2251 collided in 2009, they made 2,000+ debris pieces. Who pays? The 1972 Liability Convention, FCC rules, and the unresolved legal mess.

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