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Missions
NASA's ERNEST Rover Just Tore Through 16 Miles of California Desert — and It's Headed for the Moon
JPL's four-wheeled ERNEST prototype covered 16 miles in 37 hours during a March desert trial, moving an order of magnitude faster than any rover NASA has put on another world.
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Missions
Hubble, Chandra, Spitzer, Compton: The Strategy Behind NASA's Great Observatories
Four telescopes, four wavelength bands, one coherent strategy. How NASA designed a multi-wavelength fleet — Hubble for visible and ultraviolet, Compton for gamma rays, Chandra for X-rays, Spitzer for infrared — that transformed astrophysics by revealing what no single observatory could see alone.
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Science & Discovery
From Cold Gas to Nuclear Fire: NASA Maps Every Step of How Stars Ignite
A new NASA visualization traces star formation from the first gravitational stirrings in a molecular cloud all the way to main-sequence ignition — a single diagram synthesizing decades of multi-mission observations.
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Military Space
Northrop Grumman Says It Can Scale Solid Rocket Production — But Washington Has to Commit First
The solid rocket motor maker argues the industrial base is ready to ramp up, but short-term government contracts make it nearly impossible to justify the capital investment needed to do so.
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NASA & Agencies
From Suriname to NASA Kennedy: Rohit Goeptar's Unlikely Path to the Launch Pad
A childhood in poverty, six years in the Marines, homelessness in Florida — and now Rohit Goeptar analyzes electromagnetic compatibility for NASA rockets at Kennedy Space Center.
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Military Space
Space Force's Top Rapid-Acquisition Leader Decamps for Nuclear Weapons Center as Congress Rewrites the Playbook
Kelly Hammett's move from the Space Rapid Capabilities Office to Kirtland AFB comes as both chambers of Congress prepare to fold the agile procurement shop into a broader acquisition framework.
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Military Space
SpaceX Sends Classified NRO Payload to Orbit, Cementing Its Role as America's Go-To Military Launch Provider
A Falcon 9 launched intelligence-gathering satellites for the National Reconnaissance Office on June 18, underscoring how deeply the U.S. intelligence community now depends on commercial rockets.
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Commercial
China's Spark Space Bets on Electric-Pump Engines to Carve Out a Niche in the Small-Sat Launch Race
Two-year-old Hefei startup Spark Space has test-fired its Lieyan-2 kerosene-LOX engine and closed back-to-back funding rounds totaling over $14.8M, racing to debut its Jinhua-1 rocket by 2027.
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Stargazing
Your First Telescope: What to Buy, What to Skip, and What to Look at First
Aperture matters more than magnification, Dobsonians beat department-store refractors, and the Moon is the best first target. A no-nonsense buying guide for your first serious look at the night sky.
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Astronomy
The Case Hardens: JWST's 'Little Red Dots' Are Black Holes Feeding Past the Limit
New June 2026 modeling argues JWST's mysterious little red dots are young supermassive black holes in super-Eddington feeding bursts inside dense gas cocoons — growing to a million suns without breaking early-universe cosmology.
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NASA & Agencies
A European at the Controls: ESA's Parmitano Named Artemis III Pilot as NASA and ESA Sign New Climate and Lunar Deals
NASA named ESA's Luca Parmitano pilot of Artemis III, ESA committed a third European Service Module, and the two agencies signed Earth-science and Lunar Pathfinder agreements around ESA's 347th Council in Noordwijk.
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Commercial
SpaceX Flies Its First Falcon 9 as a Public Company. Almost Nothing Changed.
Two days after a record-setting Nasdaq debut that valued it near $2.1 trillion, SpaceX launched Starlink 17-54 from Vandenberg — its first Falcon 9 as a publicly traded company, and a routine flight that says a lot about why the IPO happened.
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