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AUGUST 2026
The Register Japan kind-of completes its sovereign satnav constellation Hackaday Triggering Lightning with a Rocket The Verge Space mirrors could ruin astronomy — and your eyes Tom's Hardware Europe expands its Starlink rival to 348 satellites as IRIS² moves into implementation — €15.6 billion network will boost EU government capacity by 60%, with launches starting in 2029 Hackaday Even on the Red Planet, Hexagons are the Bestagons Wired Here Are the First Images of the Crater Left on the Moon by SpaceX’s Rocket Tom's Hardware Intel's proposed orbital data centers would manage thousands of simple LEO satellites —two-tier network puts the brains of satellite constellations in higher orbit Ars Technica The first self-driving vehicle on Mars has proven to be a smashing success Tom's Hardware NASA modded space station's laptops so everyone could use the same charger — standardizing ISS chargers eliminated useless weight and reduced failure points The Register South Korean satellite spots SpaceX lunar impact space.com NASA figured out how to keep its Voyager 2 probe running for another year Ars Technica Europe's free satellite service just made it easier to track wildfires New Atlas Flashlight-equipped telescope lets you take photos of what you see Ars Technica The ultimate eclipse chase: A Concorde raced against the Moon's shadow Engadget One of NASA's Mars rovers could find itself promised to the moon instead Engadget Korean lunar orbiter snaps first pics of the SpaceX Falcon 9 crash site on the moon Phys.org Space 'Plasma gun' technology could transform space laundry and sanitation for future missions TechCrunch SpaceX’s Terafab will rely on natural gas power plants, not Tesla solar panels Ars Technica The world's biggest solar telescope caught vortexes on the Sun's surface Engadget Europe finalizes plans for its 'sovereign' Starlink competitor Phys.org Space An ultramassive white dwarf half Earth's size may hold a rare oxygen-neon core Tom's Hardware Elon Musk's massive Terafab chip-making facility starts to take shape — 100 million square feet of manufacturing space and $16.8B initial capital investment Hackaday NASA’s Just Prolonged Voyager 2’s Science Mission With a Big Bang Ars Technica Blue Origin narrowing in on root cause of catastrophic rocket accident The Register Next step for LINK spacecraft – a software update that won't make things worse. Are you listening, Microsoft? Engadget SpaceX's wandering Falcon 9 rocket has crashed into the moon Ars Technica SpaceX claims Starlink Mobile will be better than AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon Engadget NASA's PUNCH mission can now accurately predict when solar storms will hit Earth Tom's Hardware Elon Musk says SpaceX will exclusively use Nvidia GPUs 'because they are the best' — says optimized Vera Rubin NVL72 will be launched into space next year MIT Tech Review NASA’s new dark-energy space telescope can also detect killer asteroids toneyalexander.github.io Show HN: Simple algorithm and color space to generate diverse skin tones TechCrunch EON wants to move the data superhighway from ocean fiber to space lasers The Register NASA puts astronauts’ lives in the hands of Tesla’s flaky Cybertruck Wired The SpaceX Falcon Lunar Crash Is a Warning for Moon Bases Ars Technica Lego deploys Hubble Space Telescope as detailed desktop model Product Hunt The Garden of Mind Tom's Hardware Errant SpaceX rocket stage set to smash into the moon at 5,400 mph, seven times the speed of sound — NASA and South Korean orbiters prepare to track 3-ton TNT impact Wired The James Webb Telescope Is Changing Astronomers’ Understanding of the Ancient Cosmos Ars Technica Here's how engineers plan to save the satellite sent to save NASA's Swift mission 404 Media We Need to Quarantine Aliens on the Moon, Scientists Propose Wired Astronomers Have Detected an Exomoon for the First Time JULY 2026
Wired SpaceX’s Falcon 9 Rocket Is About to Crash Into the Moon—and It Could Be Visible From Earth Engadget SpaceXAI says it will take a year to fully remove unpermitted gas turbines from its Mississippi data center The Verge Here’s the problem with putting an AI image generator in Google Earth 404 Media Google Earth’s New AI Lets Anyone Fabricate Completely Bullshit Satellite Images The Register NASA's Swift rescue slips to late August as LINK battles its spin Ars Technica Rocket Report: New launch rule may limit environmental regulations, Falcon 9 to hit Moon The Verge NASA’s Curiosity rover found a ‘sea of polygons’ on Mars projectpluto.com Upper stage impacting the moon on 2026 August 5 Tom's Hardware Shipping container-launched cargo rocket promises 550-pound deliveries 750 km away in 15 minutes — $1.25M Air Force contract backs 'Rook' cargo rocket that flies into space to speed deliveries The Register Curiosity rover spots field of giant honeycomb on Mars – but no giant space bees Ars Technica Actually, Starliner might fly into space this year Wired NASA’s New 3D Model Shows the Earth Is a Lumpy Mess Ars Technica Reaction wheel failures leave Swift rescue mission spinning in orbit New Atlas Amazon's building a 5,000-satellite phone network to rival Starlink New Atlas 1.7 million planned satellites to have ‘devastating’ impact on astronomy