NASA’s latest reboot of the Artemis Moon program comes with familiar language: “back to basics,” “muscle memory,” “step-by-step,” and an explicit nod to the Mercury-Gemini-Apollo playbook. The agency wants to fly more often, change hardware less, and build up capability incrementally, just like the 1960s. The problem is that Artemis is trying to cosplay Apollo […]

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Program will test large segmented optical system for future surveillance satellites

NASA has selected the Centaur upper stage currently used on United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan rocket for future flights of the Space Launch System.

Week in images: 02-06 March 2026

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Rocket Lab launched a spacecraft March 5 for a confidential customer, most likely Earth observation company BlackSky.

An anomaly onboard the Proba-3 mission’s Coronagraph spacecraft led to loss of contact between the spacecraft and ground control. The root cause of the anomaly is under investigation and mission teams are working hard to recover the situation.