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The Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory reentered Earth's atmosphere on November 4, 2026, over northern Sumatra after a robotic servicing spacecraft called LINK failed to boost its orbit.
SpaceX's Oct. 13 CRS-35 cargo launch delivered 6,300 pounds and final solar arrays to the ISS amid a crowded October manifest tracked by Spaceflight Now.
Arianespace targets no earlier than Nov. 23 for Ariane 6 VA271 / LE-04 with 36 Amazon Leo satellites from French Guiana.
SpaceX launched 27 Starlink V2 Mini satellites from Vandenberg on Oct. 12 as booster B1088 completed its 20th flight and landing.
NASA's SpaceX Crew-13 landed at Kennedy on Sept. 26 and targets an Oct. 1 launch to the space station for a six-month Expedition 75 mission.
Starship hit orbit and dropped 26 Starlinks on Sept. 28 before an engine fault cut the flight short, as Crew-13 finished rehearsals for an Oct. 1 station launch.
NASA SP-393 preserved an October 1974 Greenbelt colloquium that framed later U.S. comet flybys, impacts and rendezvous missions.
Two Pakistani pilots are training in Beijing for a week-long Tiangong mission, with a final crew choice expected in mid-to-late October.
D.C. Circuit voted 2-1 on Sept. 25 to leave the Pentagon's supply-chain risk designation for Anthropic's Claude in place.
Starfish Space's first 350-kg Otter will launch on Transporter-18 for NASA's $15M SSPICY debris-inspection mission after seven years and three demo flights.
NASA moved PRIMA into Phase B as its first Probe Explorer, targeting 2033 to fill the far-infrared gap left by Webb, as Hubble logged 200,000 orbits.
Google's MVP satellite will fly four TPUs on SpaceX Transporter-18 around Oct. 1 to test radiation, vibration and cooling for orbital AI.
Researchers report a masking-and-mixing contrastive method that classified four hyperspectral datasets with only five labels per class.
Astronomers found GJ 3090 b orbiting opposite its M-dwarf star's spin at 136 degrees, with no massive companion to explain it.
SpaceX placed Super Heavy B21 on Pad 2 at Starbase late Sept. 20 to prepare Starship Flight 14, a planned orbital launch with 26 Starlink V3 satellites targeted Sept. 28 pending FAA approval.
XRISM caught iron-rich wind plasma falling onto pulsar GX 301-2 at 335,000 mph during a flare in BP Crucis, a first direct inflow detection.
Trump announced Sept. 18 a Greenland security deal promising permanent U.S. basing and space operations while Denmark retains sovereignty.
XRISM opens legacy Key Programs, while IXPE, NuSTAR and Chandra deliver new clues to black-hole coronas, winds and faint X-ray populations.
Synspective set Sept. 19 for its 12th StriX SAR satellite on Rocket Lab's Electron "Owl By The Dozen" from Mahia, New Zealand.
NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman told a Sept. 15 military conference that beating China to the moon by 2028 affects alliances, standards, and U.S. credibility.
Webb's vast IC 348 panorama finds brown dwarfs twice Jupiter's mass, plus disks, mystery chemistry, and protostellar jets.
