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Current reporting, analysis, and updates filed under the Space Community desk.

Space Community•Jun 3, 2026
NASA engineers completed their final inspection of the Roman telescope's primary mirror and are now preparing to ship the telescope to its Florida launch site.
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Space Community•Jun 3, 2026
After its rocket explosion, Blue Origin wants to complete repairs and put another New Glenn on the launchpad before the end of 2026, according to CEO Dave Limp. That's very ambitious.
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Space Community•Jun 3, 2026
NASA has declared its MAVEN Mars orbiter dead after Red Planet anomaly led to months of lost contact.
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Space Community•Jun 2, 2026
China launched its partially reusable Long March 12B rocket for the first time ever on Monday (June 1), sending it up without issuing airspace closure notices ahead of time.
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Space Community•Jun 2, 2026
Hundreds of students came together to design, build, and test rovers on an Earth obstacle course to prepare for the moon as part of a NASA challenge.
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Space Community•Jun 2, 2026
Footage from a satellite confirmed that a May 30 sonic boom heard over the northeastern US was from a meteor, NASA stated.
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Space Community•Jun 1, 2026
Satellites zoomed-in on the aftermath of the New Glenn rocket explosion at Blue Origin's LC-36 launchpad, and the extent of the damage is visible from orbit.
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Space Community•Jun 1, 2026
Venus, Jupiter and Mercury headline a spectacular month of planetary viewing.
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Space Community•Jun 1, 2026
The explosion of Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket is a big setback for the spaceflight company and will have implications for NASA's plans to return astronauts to the surface of the moon.
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Space Community•May 31, 2026
The sandfish locomotion idea has been adopted from Scincus scincus, a lizard found in the Sahara desert.
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Space Community•May 30, 2026
‘She listens to Dolly Parton now. She’s exposed to all kinds of things being in jail, because she’s got nothing but time.’
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Space Community•May 30, 2026
What is it about the Blue Moon that inspires us to write songs and name beers after it?
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Space Community•May 29, 2026
China's Shenzhou 21 astronauts returned to Earth on Friday (May 29), wrapping up a record-breaking, and very eventful, space mission.
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Space Community•May 29, 2026
A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket launched 29 Amazon Leo internet satellites to orbit on Friday night (May 28).
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Space Community•May 29, 2026
Blue Origin's powerful New Glenn rocket exploded during testing Thursday night, May 28, blasting flames and debris high into the sky in a display visible across wide swaths of Florida.
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Space Community•May 29, 2026
Blue Origin's fourth New Glenn rocket exploded during a prelaunch engine test on Thursday night (May 28). It could be a big setback for the company and for NASA's moon ambitions.
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Space Community•May 28, 2026
NASA is working hard to predict where in Earth orbit its Swift space telescope will be this fall, so that a private spacecraft can meet up with the observatory and boost its altitude.
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Space Community•May 28, 2026
The Horsehead Nebula cuts a dark silhouette against glowing clouds in the constellation Orion.
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