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Blue Origin has started rebuilding the launch pad damaged by an explosive accident last month, but the company is working from a very different blueprint this time around. The company’s huge New Glenn rocket exploded on May 28 during a routine engine test at Launch Complex 36A (LC-36A) at Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station….

Back to Article List Today in the history of astronomy, an asteroid flattens 830 square miles of Siberian forest. The Tunguska impact flattened hundreds of miles of forest and devastated local wildlife, but the remoteness of the region kept it from being a mass casuality event. Credit: Leonid Kulik/Wikimedia An enormous explosion occurred approximately 3…

Enabling & Support 25/06/2026 1287 views 26 likes In brief The Flight Ticket Initiative is opening up to more European launch service providers to join, offering new opportunities to participate in upcoming missions. European launch service providers can also bid for the launch of a new batch of In-orbit Demonstration and Validation (IOD/IOV) missions. Led…

Blue Origin’s New Glenn explodes on its launchpad at Cape Canaveral. Credit: @JConcilus via AP During an evening test fire on May 28, 2026, a Blue Origin New Glenn rocket exploded, engulfing the launchpad in a massive fireball. The spectacular fire, caught on video, not only destroyed the rocket but also appears to have significantly…

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the globular cluster NGC 6723, sometimes called the Chandelier Cluster. Image Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, A. Sarajedini, G. Piotto Read More https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/55357496142-295d2a4b87-o/Copy URL to clipboard> DownloadShare This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the globular cluster NGC 6723, sometimes called the Chandelier Cluster. Image Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA,…

NASA provided an Artemis update today (June 30), announcing new lunar landing contracts for its Moon Base initiative and a surprise new possible rover mission that could be headed to the moon’s south pole. During the second monthly update that NASA has provided for its moon base plans, the agency named Astrobotic, Firefly Aerospace and…

Image: NASA NASA’s next great observatory is no longer a distant concept sitting quietly in development labs. The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is now entering its final stretch toward launch, and across the space community, anticipation around the mission has grown dramatically in recent months. NASA is targeting an Aug. 30 launch for Roman…

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Space Force has placed into operational service a new mobile satellite-jamming system capable of temporarily disrupting an adversary’s communications. The electronic warfare system, known as Meadowlands and built by L3Harris Technologies, uses radio-frequency signals to interfere with an adversary satellite’s ability to transmit information. Unlike anti-satellite weapons designed to physically destroy…

Enabling & Support 24/06/2026 2546 views 53 likes At 15:24 CEST on 15 June 2026, a faint blue glow in space was switched off for the last time. After powering BepiColombo’s eight-year journey across the inner Solar System, the spacecraft’s solar electric propulsion (SEP) system completed its final thrust arc, marking the end of BepiColombo’s long cruise phase and the beginning of its arrival at Mercury.  Since…