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On 5 September 1977 Voyager 1 left Cape Canaveral at 721.9 kg; as of 21 August 2024 it was 164.7 AU from Earth, moving about 38,027 mph relative to the Sun and still returning data
2+ day, 11+ hour ago (177+ words) Nearly five decades after launch, humanity's most distant emissary continues whispering back from the edge of the solar system, defying every expectation of how long a machine can survive in the void....
In 2021, Blue Origin challenged NASA’s decision to award SpaceX its first crewed lunar-lander contract. Now, in a striking reversal, Blue Origin has won a NASA Mars communications-orbiter contract worth up to $700 million—and losing bidder Rocket Lab has filed its own protest with the same federal watchdog.
2+ day, 13+ hour ago (1243+ words) Rocket Lab has challenged NASA's Mars Telecommunications Network award to Blue Origin, five years after Blue Origin protested NASA's first crewed lunar-lander award to SpaceX....
After more than 50 years, a solar telescope in New Mexico is being pulled down, after liquid mercury from the bearing that let its 250-ton optical system turn was found inside the tower. Crews found the metal on January 5.
3+ day, 17+ hour ago (575+ words) By The Daily Orbit Published September 11, 2026 · How we edit A solar telescope in New Mexico is being torn down, and the reason is a pool of liquid mercury hidden inside it. The mercury was the clever trick that made the…...
NASA lost a $125 million spacecraft at Mars because one engineering team used English units while another expected metric — the mismatch quietly pushed the orbiter onto the wrong trajectory after nine months in space
4+ day, 4+ hour ago (231+ words) A decade of planning and a quarter-billion dollars in funding vanished in seconds when two teams speaking different measurement languages sent a spacecraft crashing into Mars....
On 28 October 1971, a British Black Arrow rocket put Prospero into orbit from the Australian desert — Parliament had been told on 29 July that the programme would end after this flight, leaving the next rocket to become an unflown museum exhibit.
5+ day, 7+ hour ago (611+ words) Black Arrow launched Prospero after Parliament had been told the programme would end. The unflown R4 rocket preserved the next step that never happened....
In 2008, a team hauled 1,478 lunar data tapes and four obsolete drives to NASA Ames to recover pictures from the 1960s — and the laboratory where they restored those original views of the Moon in greater detail was an abandoned McDonald’s restaurant.
5+ day, 16+ hour ago (309+ words) The Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project restored old tape drives inside a former McDonald’s to retrieve detail preserved in recordings from the 1960s....
China's water-hunting Moon mission was hours from launch on Sunday when the countdown stopped — the next window may not come until 2027
2+ week, 5+ day ago (571+ words) A scrubbed launch in the race to find water ice at the Moon's poles could cost China years in its push to establish the first permanent lunar base. By The Daily Orbit · Edited by Mal James Published August 25, 2026 · How we…...
On 7 August, Elon Musk said Ship 40's ocean recovery was “not looking good.” Eleven days later, on 18 August, it was towed intact to waters off Christmas Island — the first Starship upper stage ever recovered intact after returning from space.
3+ week, 5+ day ago (891+ words) After 24 days at sea, recovery crews guided the first intact Starship upper stage to calmer water off Christmas Island, preserving an unprecedented post-flight test article....
Scientists led by UCLA found that permanently shaded parts of pits on the Moon stay near a constant 17°C while the exposed surface swings between 127°C and −173°C — meaning humanity's first permanent lunar address may be underground.
4+ week, 23+ hour ago (1377+ words) LRO thermal data and UCLA-led modelling show why permanent shade in certain lunar pits can remain near 17°C, while cave habitability still depends on access, structure, air and power. By Mission Notes · Edited by Lachlan Brown Published August 16, 2026 · How we…...
Starship's 33 engines push down with 74,400 kilonewtons at liftoff — roughly twice the force of the Saturn V that sent humans to the Moon, yet the whole vehicle is designed to be caught like a falling pencil and flown again the next day
4+ week, 1+ day ago (1038+ words) SpaceX's bet is that catching and reusing a 5,000-tonne rocket is cheaper than building a new one, and the engineering challenges of making that work may matter far more than raw horsepower. Published August 16, 2026 · How we edit At the moment…...