January 19th, 2026
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China’s uncrewed Shenzhou-20 return capsule parachuted into the Dongfeng landing site in north China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region on January 19 at 09:34 (Beijing Time). That capsule’s original return date had been delayed due to concerns over tiny cracks found in the capsule’s viewport window, damage thought caused by a high-speed run-in with space debris. […]
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There’s some new planetary defense news – specific to nuking an Earth-threatening asteroid. Experiments at CERN’s Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) suggest that metal-rich asteroids are more resistant than previously assumed. The asteroid tests challenge nuclear-deflection models. The European Organization for Nuclear Research is known as CERN. There have been those advocates that, in the case […]
The ongoing investigation and study of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) has received a legislative boost. UAP legislation has been submitted to the Vermont legislature to create a state level, 10-person UAP task force. The Vermont bill establishes a statewide task force to scientifically evaluate unidentified aerial activity. The bill assigns responsibility for the scientific analysis […]
The NASA Office of Inspector General (OIG) has released a new report — 2025 Top Management and Performance Challenges. It outlines five critical challenges facing the Agency: Challenge 1: Returning Humans to the Moon Challenge 2: Sustaining a Human Presence in Low Earth Orbit Challenge 3: Improving Management of Major Programs and Projects Challenge 4: […]
A newly-minted, Y Combinator‑backed startup aims to make lunar tourism the first sustainable business on the Moon. That’s the word from Skyler Chan, founder and CEO of Galactic Resource Utilization Space (GRU Space), a visionary Berkeley-based group. Proprietary module system Space’s lunar hotel would be the first ever permanent off-Earth structure built in history. GRU […]
Artemis Handshake! Hugo Costa, executive director for the Portuguese Space Agency, and U.S. Ambassador to Portugal John J. Arrigo pose for a photo on Jan. 12 during a ceremony in Lisbon, Portugal, to mark the country’s signing of the Artemis Accords. Portugal is the latest nation to sign the Artemis Accords alongside 59 other countries […]
A month-long program was organized by the China Astronaut Research and Training Center, one that involved a team of 28 astronauts. The data collected during the CAVES training experience is helping to shape psychological support systems for astronauts undergoing lengthy space station missions as well as future crewed lunar landing missions, said Jiang Yuan, […]
SpaceX is targeting Sunday, January 11 for Falcon 9’s launch of the Twilight mission from Space Launch Complex 4E (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. The launch window opens at 5:19 a.m. Pacific Time. Following stage separation, the first stage will land on Landing Zone 4 at Vandenberg Space Force Base. Twilight […]
China reports progress in performing scientific data simulations for the soon-to-launch Chinese Space Station Telescope (CSST). The space station-tended facility is also known as the Xuntian Space Telescope. Its launch by a Long March 5B rocket from China’s Wenchang center was last reported to have slipped to the end of this year. Xuntian will co-orbit […]
Moon boots and Mars boots. Anyway you look at it there are a lot of NASA shoes still to drop. One of those in perpetual déjà vu status is flinging off Mars select specimens from that distant orb, an endeavor viewed as a U.S. high priority. However, there’s also been a recurrent whirlwind of fall […]
