Starliner investigation identifies flawed NASA decision making
Thursday, 19 February 2026 20:47
NASA has classified the flawed Starliner crewed test flight in 2024 as its most serious level of mishap, with the agency’s leadership citing shortfalls in how officials oversaw the program.
NASA boss blasts Boeing and space agency managers for Starliner's botched astronaut flight
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NASA conducts second rocket fueling test that will decide when Artemis astronauts head to the moon
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Sophie Adenot exercising on the CEVIS bike
Thursday, 19 February 2026 15:21
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ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot during one of her first workouts at the start of the εpsilon mission. Upper-atmospheric lithium pollution directly linked to Falcon 9 reentry
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Rocket re-entry pollution measured in atmosphere for first time
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EarthDaily in Orbit: From First Launch to Commercial Operations
Thursday, 19 February 2026 13:09
With six additional satellites launching in May and continued expansion later this year, the EarthDaily Constellation will enter commercial operations in Summer 2026, delivering daily, consistent global coverage.
Webb maps Uranus's mysterious upper atmosphere
Thursday, 19 February 2026 13:00
For the first time, an international team of astronomers have mapped the vertical structure of Uranus’s upper atmosphere, uncovering how temperature and charged particles vary with height across the planet. Using NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope's NIRSpec instrument, the team observed Uranus for nearly a full rotation, detecting the faint glow from molecules high above the clouds. The results offer a new window into how ice-giant planets distribute energy in their upper layers.
ESA’s 5G laboratory on wheels
Thursday, 19 February 2026 13:00
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ESA’s 5G laboratory on wheels Golden Dome will fail without software-defined warfare
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Study revisits chances of detecting alien technosignatures
Thursday, 19 February 2026 11:07
For more than sixty years, astronomers have searched the sky for signs of advanced extraterrestrial technology, scanning the Milky Way for artificial radio transmissions, optical flashes and excess infrared heat.
Despite these efforts, no technosignature has been confirmed so far, a silence often attributed to the fact that only a tiny fraction of the cosmic search space has been explored. Hypersonica completes milestone hypersonic missile flight test in Norway
Thursday, 19 February 2026 11:07
Hypersonica has completed its first hypersonic test flight at Andoya Space in Norway, marking what the company describes as a major step toward a European sovereign hypersonic strike capability by 2029.
The Anglo-German defense and aerospace company reported that its missile prototype accelerated to speeds above Mach 6 and flew more than 300 kilometers during the mission. All systems perfo NASA teams set for second Artemis II wet dress rehearsal
Thursday, 19 February 2026 11:07
NASA is preparing for the second wet dress rehearsal of the Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft ahead of the Artemis II test flight, targeting Thursday, Feb. 19, as the day to load propellants into the vehicle at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Teams spent the weekend replacing a filter in ground support equipment that was suspected of restricting liquid hydrogen flow during a Russian era ends at abandoned launchpad in South American jungle
Thursday, 19 February 2026 11:07
"Stop. Danger of death. Work in progress."
This sign, written in Russian, is still hanging inside an office at the site where Russia once launched its Soyuz rockets from Europe's spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana.
However the jungle has been slowly reclaiming the launchpad on South America's northeastern coast ever since Russia hastily left in the aftermath of invading Ukraine in Februa