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Commercial
FAA Closes Starship Flight 12 Mishap Probe, Clears SpaceX for Flight 13
The FAA closed its Flight 12 mishap investigation on July 13, pinning the Super Heavy booster loss on heat effects and bad engine alarm settings, and cleared SpaceX for a Flight 13 attempt as soon as July 16.
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Science & Discovery
JWST Finds a "Hot but Cold" Hydrogen Glow Far Out in an Edge-On Planet-Forming Disk
A new JWST study of the edge-on disk Oph 163131 finds hydrogen gas glowing from vibrational excitation without the rotational heat that normally comes with it, pointing to UV and cosmic rays stirring the far reaches of a planet-forming disk.
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Stargazing
Predawn Sky Guide: Moon Lines Up With Mars, Saturn and Uranus on July 11-12
A waning crescent Moon points the way to Mars, Saturn, and a binoculars-only Uranus in the predawn eastern sky on July 11-12, 2026, part of a busy month of lunar-planetary conjunctions.
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Military Space
SDA Hands L3Harris and Sierra Space $1.75 Billion to Build 36 Golden Dome Tracking Satellites
The Space Development Agency awarded L3Harris and Sierra Space a combined $1.75 billion on July 13 to build 36 missile-tracking satellites for Golden Dome's Tranche 3, targeting launch by the end of 2028.
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Missions
NASA Moves Its Sun-Watching SmallSat Swarm From Vulcan Centaur to Falcon Heavy
NASA has rebooked its six-satellite SunRISE solar radio observatory from a ULA Vulcan Centaur onto a SpaceX Falcon Heavy, a Space Force-sponsored rideshare that will fly the toaster-oven-size CubeSats to just above geosynchronous orbit.
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Missions
China Nets a Falling Rocket at Sea: Long March 10B Pulls Off the First Successful Net-Capture Booster Recovery
On its maiden flight, China's Long March 10B had its spent first stage snagged mid-fall by a net rig on the recovery ship Linghang Zhe, making China the second nation to recover an orbital booster intact — via a method nobody else has pulled off.
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Astronomy
JWST Rules Out Two 'Alien Megastructure' Candidates — They're Just Background Galaxies
JWST spectroscopy shows the infrared glow behind two Project Hephaistos Dyson-sphere candidates comes from unrelated background galaxies, not extraterrestrial engineering.
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NASA & Agencies
India's First Private Orbital Rocket, Skyroot's Vikram-1, Opens Its Launch Window
Skyroot Aerospace's Vikram-1 sits fully stacked at Sriharikota with a July 12–August 4 window to become India's first privately built and launched orbital rocket.
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Military Space
Space Force Completes Its Nine-Portfolio Acquisition Overhaul, Citing a 'Wartime Footing'
The Space Force has finished carving its entire acquisition enterprise into nine mission-focused portfolios controlling up to 92% of contracting authority, its biggest reorg since 2019.
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Stargazing
Sunspot AR4485 Fires an M1.2 Flare as CMEs Set Up a G1-G2 Storm Watch Through Midweek
Departing sunspot AR4485 unleashed an M1.2 flare and a radio blackout before rotating off the disk, while a trailing coronal mass ejection could nudge Earth's geomagnetic field to G1 storm levels late this week.
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Stargazing
The August 2026 Night Sky Guide
August 2026 stacks a rare eclipse double-header around its best night: a moonless Perseid peak on Aug 12-13, Venus at its evening best, and a deep 93%-covered partial lunar eclipse lighting up the Sturgeon Moon on Aug 27-28.
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Astronomy
How Astronomers Measure Cosmic Distances: The Distance Ladder
No single method measures the universe. Astronomers climb a ladder — parallax, then pulsing Cepheid stars, then exploding white dwarfs, then redshift — each rung calibrating the next, and a crack near the top is now cosmology's biggest open problem.
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