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Friday 23 October 2026

Space Desk

Space · Page 2

Stories 21–37 of 37, newest first. Back to the latest

  1. Space15 min read

    FLEX and Sentinel-3C flew

    A Vega-C rocket launched ESA's FLEX plant fluorescence explorer and Copernicus Sentinel-3C from French Guiana on 15 September. ESA has first signals.
  2. Space5 min read

    Mio Gets the Polar Ellipse

    JAXA's Mio heads into a highly elliptical polar orbit around Mercury in December 2026 to study its magnetic field, alongside ESA's MPO.
  3. Space5 min read

    BepiColombo starts its six-month Mercury arrival campaign

    ESA and JAXA's BepiColombo starts a six-month arrival campaign after its transfer module separated on 3 September. Orbit insertion is 21 November.
  4. Space23 min read

    Hubble and Webb team up on the smallest worlds past Neptune

    Hubble and Webb's first joint survey beyond Neptune finds the smallest icy bodies look like bigger ones but are fewer than some models expected.
  5. Space5 min read

    Artemis III Got Its Engines

    Technicians finished installing Artemis III's four RS-25 engines on the work stand at Kennedy on 1 September, ready for core-stage integration.
  6. Space5 min read

    Isar Aerospace's Spectrum reaches orbit from Andøya

    Isar Aerospace's second Spectrum flight reached orbit from Norway with customer payloads, Europe's first commercial orbital success from the mainland.
  8. Space4 min read

    Meir and Adenot finish a 6-hour, 49-minute ISS spacewalk

    Jessica Meir and Sophie Adenot's US spacewalk 99 lasted 6 hours 49 minutes, with a new docking target fitted on the space station's Harmony module.
  9. Space4 min read

    NASA's Roman telescope powers on its coronagraph

    NASA's Roman telescope powered on its Coronagraph on 1 September. Commissioning takes three months, and first images are due in early 2027.
  10. Space6 min read

    BepiColombo splits on Thursday

    ESA's Mercury Transfer Module separates 3 September 2026 at 14:00 CEST from ESOC Darmstadt. MPO and Mio stay stacked. Science in April 2027.
  11. Space24 min read

    NASA's Roman Space Telescope left 39A on Falcon Heavy at 7:26

    NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope launched on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy on 30 August. It's heading to an orbit about 1.5 million km from Earth.
  12. Space6 min read

    V3 Starlinks are sized for Starship’s bay

    SpaceX's Q2 2026 results say the next Starship test should put V3 Starlink satellites into an operational orbit. They're built for its cargo bay.
  13. Space6 min read

    The chopsticks caught Super Heavy in October 2024

    Two mechanical arms at Starbase caught a falling Super Heavy booster in October 2024. The launch mount stopped being a one-shot stand. It became a gate.
  14. Space4 min read

    NASA’s Starling swarm finds its orbit without GPS

    NASA's Starling CubeSat swarm has fixed its own orbit without GPS, matching star-tracker sightings to a catalog of about 20,000 objects.
  15. Space5 min read

    Roman is on Falcon Heavy, nine months early

    NASA and SpaceX are targeting 7:26 a.m. Eastern Sunday from 39A. The readiness date was May 2027. The fairing already says Roman.
  16. Space5 min read

    ExoMars landing platform model unfolds its legs in Turin test

    ESA posted the Turin test on 6 August: four landing legs, two pairs, less than a second. Rosalind Franklin is starting to look like a landing.
  17. Space5 min read

    Artemis II crew gets the Congressional Space Medal of Honor

    President Trump has given the Artemis II crew the Congressional Space Medal of Honor. They were the first people to fly to the Moon since 1972.
  18. Live · Space6 min read

    Musk put a ship catch months out, and a reflight by early 2027

    Elon Musk said on 20 August that a Starship upper stage should first fly again by the end of 2026 or early 2027. SpaceX first caught a booster in 2024.

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