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Military Space
Space Force Honor Guard Debuts Its First Original Ceremonial Uniform
Seven years after standing up, the Space Force Honor Guard has traded its borrowed Air Force dress for a uniform of its own, unveiled publicly at the Freedom 250 Grand Prix in Washington, D.C.
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Missions
China Scrubs Chang'e-7 Launch Hours Before Liftoff, Citing Storm and Sun Angles
China postponed the Chang'e-7 lunar south pole mission just hours before its Long March 5 was due to fly, blaming Tropical Storm Narra and a narrow sun-angle window over Shackleton Crater — with the next opportunity at least a month, possibly a year, away.
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Science & Discovery
JWST Rules Out a Thick Atmosphere on Habitable-Zone World TRAPPIST-1 f
Five clean JWST transits of TRAPPIST-1 f show no starspot contamination and rule out a thick hydrogen/helium atmosphere, sharpening the hunt for air on the seven-planet system's outer habitable-zone world.
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Stargazing
This Week's Sky: Venus Closes In on Spica as Jupiter Climbs the Dawn
From August 22-26, 2026, watch the waxing gibbous Moon slide past the Teapot and into Capricornus while Venus edges toward Spica and Jupiter, Mars, and Saturn stack up in the morning sky.
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Astronomy
Webb's Infrared Eye Opens a 'Treasure Chest' of 70 Hidden Newborn Stars in Carina
NASA's newest Webb image pierces the dust of a Carina Nebula cometary globule called the "Treasure Chest," revealing roughly 70 young stars, including a rare 19-solar-mass O-type star, many still wrapped in planet-forming discs.
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Stargazing
APOD Solves the Case of the 'Mystery Meteor' Crossing the Eclipsed Sun
A bright streak filmed crossing the partially eclipsed Sun from Spain on August 12 looked like a made-for-astronomy Perseid meteor — until NASA's APOD team checked the numbers and found an airplane contrail instead.
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NASA & Agencies
Astronauts Pull a Dead Antenna Off the ISS — But the Spare Will Have to Wait
NASA's Anil Menon and ESA's Sophie Adenot, the first French woman to spacewalk, spent over six hours removing a failed ISS antenna on August 18 but ran out of time to bolt in its replacement.
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Missions
NASA Scraps LINK's Boost of Swift Observatory After Thruster Trouble
A servicing spacecraft launched to save the Swift Observatory from a decaying orbit now needs saving itself, after two of its three reaction wheels failed and NASA called off the planned altitude boost.
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Military Space
Space Force Stands Up Its First Squadron Built to Both Listen and Jam
The newly activated 1st Electromagnetic Warfare Squadron pairs a decades-old signal-detection system with a brand-new mobile jammer, staffed largely by Air National Guard veterans who transferred into the Space Force last fall.
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Astronomy
A Golden Corona: NASA's APOD Captures an Unusually Amber Total Solar Eclipse Over Spain
NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day reveals why the August 12 total solar eclipse's corona over Benavente, Spain glowed gold instead of white — a rare mix of low-sun geometry and wildfire smoke.
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Commercial
NASA Adds Blue Origin, Firefly, and L3Harris to $100M Spacecraft Processing Contract
NASA on-ramped four companies — All Points Logistics, Blue Origin, Firefly Aerospace, and L3Harris — to a $100 million payload processing contract that expands where commercial providers can prep spacecraft for launch.
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Missions
NASA's Starling Swarm Just Learned to Navigate Without GPS
NASA and Stanford spinoff EraDrive flight-tested FALCON on the Starling CubeSats, letting small satellites fix their position by matching nearby objects to a catalog instead of relying on GPS.
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