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What is actually happening in the sky, written plainly — launches, eclipses, meteor showers and the pictures worth stopping for. Every piece is checked against the source data before it is published.
A Small Part, a Big Step Upward
Think of a lantern that works well on the ground but must survive the cold, the shaking, and the silence of space before it can be trusted up there. That is the test a piece of…
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Europe Steps Back From Ariane 6 Upgrades
I think of a farmer who plans to build a bigger barn, then looks at his harvest and decides the old one will do for now. Something similar has happened in Europe's space…
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SpaceWERX Picks 11 Companies to Grow Military Space Technology
I keep an eye on the sky every night, but I also keep an eye on who is building the machines that go up there. This week brings news of that second kind. SpaceWERX, the innovation…
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A Week of Small Satellites, Told by the People Who Build Them
I think of a crow dropping stones into a pot, one at a time, until the water rises enough to drink. Small, steady actions, building toward something useful. That is what comes to…
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An Uncommon Drifter in the Denmark Strait
I think of a leaf dropped in a river far upstream, carried along for a long time before anyone downstream notices it. Something like that happened in the ocean near Greenland. In…
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A New Lab on the Ground, Watching the Sky's Hard Problems
Not every story about space begins with a telescope. Some begin in a workshop, with engineers building a room where machines can test against machines before anything ever leaves…
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A Ninth Eye in the Sky for iQPS
A radar satellite does not need sunlight to see. It sends its own signal down and reads what bounces back, day or night, clear sky or cloudy. That is the kind of eye Japan's iQPS…
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A Closer Look at ISR in Space
When I look up at the night sky, I think mostly of planets and their slow, steady paths. But there is another kind of watching happening above us — satellites built to observe,…
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A Jacket Full of Patches, and a Countdown Rehearsal
I once watched a tailor stitch patches onto an old coat, each one marking a journey the wearer had taken. NASA's Kennedy Space Center gave us something similar this month — a…
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Watching Snow From Above to Know What the Rivers Will Do
I think of the old farmers who watch the sky before planting, reading clouds the way we read a chart. NASA does something similar, but with satellites instead of eyes. According…
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What an Astronaut Could See from Orbit
Imagine sitting at a window two hundred kilometres above the Earth, camera in hand, watching roads and rivers slide past below. That is what NASA astronaut L. Gordon Cooper, Jr.…
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Four University Teams, One Goal: Quieter, Faster Flight
I think of the crow and the pot of water again when I read this story. No single stone raised the water enough to drink. It took many hands, many small efforts, over time. NASA's…
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