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Commercial
SpaceX Launches 27 Starlink Satellites on Record-Setting Booster's 35th Flight
A Falcon 9 booster flew for a record 35th time out of Vandenberg early Sept. 2, deploying 27 more Starlink satellites and sticking its droneship landing in the Pacific.
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Military Space
Gravitics' 'Orbital Carrier' Gets Its First Golden Dome Hardware Order, Care of Lockheed Martin
Seattle startup Gravitics has landed a Lockheed Martin subcontract to build three flight-ready Orbital Carriers for the Pentagon's Golden Dome missile-defense architecture, with demos slated for 2027-2028.
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NASA & Agencies
Meir and Adenot Step Outside for U.S. Spacewalk 99, the Sixth All-Female EVA in History
NASA's Jessica Meir and ESA's Sophie Adenot spent 6.5 hours outside the ISS on Sept. 1, 2026, swapping hardware on Harmony and the truss in the sixth all-female spacewalk ever flown.
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Commercial
OHB Wins Nearly €1 Billion to Build IRIS²'s First 18 Satellites as Europe's Sovereign Network Moves to Hardware
Germany's OHB landed a nearly €1 billion SES contract to build all 18 IRIS² medium-Earth-orbit satellites, the first hardware award since the EU's sovereign connectivity program signed its implementation agreement in early August.
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Missions
Roman Space Telescope Launches Toward L2, Kicking Off a Dark-Universe Survey 1,000 Times Faster Than Hubble
NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope launched on a Falcon Heavy Aug. 30, 2026, beginning a three-month cruise to L2 where its 300-megapixel camera will survey the sky 1,000x faster than Hubble in search of dark matter, dark energy, and exoplanets.
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Stargazing
September's Sky: A Harvest Moon, Venus at Its Brightest, and the Equinox Arrives Right on Schedule
September 2026 stacks a Moon-Jupiter pairing, Venus's brightest night of the year, a dark New Moon, the precise equinox moment, and a Harvest Moon passing Saturn into one easy month of naked-eye skywatching.
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Missions
The Pentagon Called It Its Most Spectacular Failure. NASA Just Launched the Wreckage Toward the Edge of the Universe — Under the Name of a Woman Astronomy Once Said Didn't Belong
A telescope built in secret to spy on adversaries, abandoned as a half-billion-dollar Cold War-style failure, launched August 30 to hunt dark energy — carrying the name of a woman denied a seat in the field it was denied a role in.
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Science & Discovery
Mars May Be Hiding a Molten Hot Spot Beneath Its South Pole
A gravity-based "tidal tomography" study in Nature finds the interior under Mars's south finds runs 200–400°C hotter than the north and may be partly molten, reshaping ideas about the planet's lopsided magnetism and ancient water.
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Military Space
Trump Signs Order to Create a U.S. Space Academy
A new executive order tasks a NASA-chaired commission with designing, in just 120 days, a federal academy meant to train engineers, operators, and future Space Force Guardians.
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NASA & Agencies
Turkey Becomes 71st Nation to Sign the Artemis Accords
Turkey signed the Artemis Accords at NASA Headquarters on August 31, 2026, becoming the 71st nation to join the U.S.-led framework for norms in civil space exploration.
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Science & Discovery
Stanford's 'Cosmic Sandbar' Model Explains Why Some Lava Worlds Keep Their Atmospheres
A Stanford model shows sloshing molten rock on scorched, close-in super-Earths can outgas fast enough to replenish atmospheres that stellar radiation is simultaneously stripping away.
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Military Space
Golden Dome's First Big Tests Checked the Software, Not the Missiles
Pentagon officials reveal that Golden Dome's first large-scale test, held in June at White Sands, validated command-and-control software rather than interceptors — with outside industry watching.
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