Pentagon officially ends OCX program, citing risk and delays
Monday, 20 April 2026 20:58
The decision to terminate RTX’s contract for the next-generation GPS ground system follows testing failures and years of cost growth
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Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket is grounded after launching satellite into the wrong orbit
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Shadow War in the Gulf: UAE Unravels Iran-Linked Cell Targeting Emirati Youth
Monday, 20 April 2026 18:04
The United Arab Emirates has arrested individuals accused of operating an Iran-linked cell that plotted terrorist and sabotage acts on Emirati soil. Authorities published photographs of the detainees and charged them with establishing a secret organization, pledging allegiance to foreign entities, collecting and transferring funds to suspicious foreign parties, spreading extremist ideology, and recruiting Emirati […]
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Trump’s Iran War Justification Unravels as His Own Intelligence Chief Breaks Ranks
Monday, 20 April 2026 16:05
On June 14, President Donald Trump posted a statement to Truth Social insisting that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had no role in pushing the United States toward military strikes against Iran. “Nobody pushed me into anything,” Trump wrote. “I’ve been saying for years that Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon. After October 7th, everyone […]
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How do astronauts adapt their grip and move objects when transitioning between Earth and space?
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Latvia joins the Artemis Accords
Monday, 20 April 2026 15:16
Latvia is the latest country to sign the Artemis Accords as part of a new push to use the Accords to foster cooperation on NASA’s lunar exploration ambitions.
Quote of the day by Frank Borman “Exploration is really the essence of the human spirit.”
Monday, 20 April 2026 14:02
There’s a phenomenon astronauts often describe called the Overview Effect. It’s that radical shift in perspective you get when you see Earth from space. Borders disappear. The squabbles that consumed your attention down on the surface suddenly look ridiculous. You realize, in your bones rather than just your head, that we’re all on the same […]
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NASA shuts off instrument on Voyager 1 to keep spacecraft operating
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Space Force sets up ‘cislunar coordination’ office to focus beyond Earth orbit
Monday, 20 April 2026 13:00
Officials say civil-military overlap with NASA grows as lunar activity accelerates
Hubble turns 36 with a dazzling Trifid Nebula portrait
Monday, 20 April 2026 13:00
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope looked at a scene it first captured in 1997 in honour of 36th anniversary: a small portion of a star-forming region about 5000 light-years away in the constellation Sagittarius, known as the Trifid Nebula. The image shows changes over incredibly short timescales and instills a sense of awe and wonder about our ever-changing Universe.
The Strait Narrows: US Seizure of Iranian Ship Tests a Fragile Diplomacy
Monday, 20 April 2026 12:35
US naval forces boarded an Iranian-flagged container ship near the Strait of Hormuz over the weekend, escalating tensions in the region and pushing fragile diplomatic efforts to the edge of collapse. The operation casts serious doubt on talks scheduled for Monday in Pakistan. President Donald Trump said the vessel had attempted to breach a US […]
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In the wake of Artemis 2, America needs to consider the ‘why’ of its government space program
Monday, 20 April 2026 12:00
Myanmar’s Amnesty Theater: Why Min Aung Hlaing’s Prisoner Release Is About Legitimacy, Not Reform
Monday, 20 April 2026 11:07
Myanmar’s military-installed government reportedly released ousted President Win Myint on Friday and reduced Aung San Suu Kyi’s prison sentence, part of a reported mass amnesty of over 4,000 prisoners timed to the Thingyan New Year holiday. The move was one of the first major acts of newly inaugurated President Min Aung Hlaing, the coup leader […]
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China’s Satellite Factory Buildout Has Outpaced Its Rockets by a Factor of Twenty
Monday, 20 April 2026 10:37
China has built or is building dozens of satellite factories with a combined theoretical output of over 7,000 spacecraft per year, yet launched just several hundred satellites in 2025 — a gap that defines both the ambition and the bottleneck of the country’s commercial space buildout. The figures come from a survey by Chinese space […]
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The complete story of how the Parker Solar Probe survives the Sun and what its data is rewriting about stellar physics
Monday, 20 April 2026 09:05
Parker Solar Probe has become the first human-made object to fly through the Sun's corona and survive. Its data is rewriting half a century of stellar physics, from the origin of the solar wind to the coronal heating problem.
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