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NASA & Agencies
NASA Cuts the Ribbon on Its First New Wind Tunnel in 40 Years
NASA opened the Flight Dynamics Research Facility at Langley on July 31, 2026 — its first newly built wind tunnel in over four decades, aimed at aircraft, autonomous flight, and Artemis-era spacecraft testing.
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Missions
NASA Sets Three August Spacewalks to Rewire ISS Power and Fix Station Comms
NASA previewed a trio of August spacewalks — on the 6th, 13th, and 25th — to rework a station power channel, swap a balky communications antenna, and rig cabling for future upgrades.
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Military Space
SpaceX Lands $1.6 Billion Space Force Deal to Launch 18 Rockets for Airborne-Threat Tracking Satellites
Space Systems Command awarded SpaceX two task orders worth $1.6 billion for 18 Falcon 9 launches by end of 2027, carrying satellites meant to track airborne threats and feed targeting data to U.S. forces in near-real time.
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Astronomy
Webb's 'Little Red Dots' Turn Out to Be the Tip of a Supermassive-Black-Hole Iceberg
A nearby spiral nicknamed 'the Saguaro' just gave astronomers the missing piece of the little red dot puzzle: faint, buried X-rays confirming these mysterious JWST objects are ordinary black holes caught in an unusually obscured growth spurt.
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Missions
NASA Bets $3.2 Million on 18 Wild Ideas, From Sun-Dimming Dust Clouds to Lava-Tube Robots
NASA's NIAC program handed 18 teams up to $175,000 each to spend nine months proving out concepts ranging from a controllable sun-dimming dust cloud to hovering robots for lunar lava tubes.
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Commercial
Caltech and a JPL Spinoff Just Patented the Cooling Trick Space Data Centers Need
Sophia Space and Caltech won a U.S. patent for TILE, a modular passively-cooled computing panel meant to let data centers run in orbit, with an on-orbit demo planned for 2027.
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Science & Discovery
A New Theory Explains How Fast Star-Forming Gas Actually Lives and Dies
A University of Maryland-led simulation study finds that individual clumps of star-forming gas survive for as little as 400,000 years, reframing how astronomers should read galaxy-scale star formation data.
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NASA & Agencies
Five University Teams Are Flying Balloons Into an Eclipse's Shadow for NASA
NASA has set its coverage plan for the August 12, 2026 total solar eclipse over Greenland, Iceland and Spain, while five NASA-funded university teams launch roughly 80 balloons into the eclipse shadow to study how the atmosphere reacts when the Moon briefly cuts off the Sun.
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Commercial
FAA Wants to Waive 13 Environmental Laws to Speed Up Rocket Launch Licenses
The FAA's new proposed rule would let it bypass NEPA, the Endangered Species Act, and 11 other statutes when licensing commercial rocket launches — the biggest shake-up of launch environmental oversight since 2021.
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Military Space
GAO: Space Force Doesn't Know How Many Guardians It Actually Needs
A new GAO report finds the Space Force filled only 75% of its identified FY2025 positions and has no standardized way to calculate how many Guardians it actually requires — a gap opening just as the service plans to roughly double in size.
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Astronomy
Hubble Finds Andromeda's Star Formation Has Dropped 80% in 500 Million Years
A new Hubble-based study mapping 200 million stars across Andromeda shows its star-formation rate has fallen 80% in 500 million years, with the steepest drop in just the last 40 million.
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NASA & Agencies
NASA Astronaut, Two Cosmonauts Land in Kazakhstan After 241-Day Mission
Soyuz MS-28 parachuted onto the Kazakh steppe on July 26, closing out a 241-day Expedition 73/74 stint that carried NASA's Chris Williams and two Roscosmos cosmonauts more than 102 million miles around Earth.
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