Space

SPACE PULSE Thursday, July 24, 2026 | Edition 204 ⚡ TL;DR SpaceX Starship Flight 13 lifts off tomorrow evening — the first Starship mission to deploy real payload, 20 V3 Starlink satellites — making it the most operationally significant test yet. [1] A busy 24 hours: Io gets its first subsurface heat map,

SPACE PULSE Wednesday, July 23, 2026 — Edition 22 July 2026 22:00 UTC ⚡ TL;DR NASA's Juno has delivered the first-ever subsurface temperature map of Io, revealing shallow internal heating on the solar system's most volcanic moon — the day's standout scientific result. A

SPACE PULSE Tuesday, 22 July 2026 | Edition 203 ⚡ TL;DR NASA's NIAC 2026 selections drop a wave of wild concept studies today, from sun-dimming dust clouds to 10,000-femtosat Saturn swarms, dominating the day's agency news. [1] Launches, mild space weather, and a busy

SPACE PULSE Monday, 20 July 2026 | Your daily space and astronomy briefing ⚡ TL;DR Today marks exactly 50 years since Viking 1 touched down on Mars on 20 July 1976, and NASA is commemorating the half-century milestone with fresh retrospectives on the mission. A busy week ahead: two Falcon

SPACE PULSE Sunday, 19 July 2026 | 22:00 UTC ⚡ TL;DR A multi-day high-energy electron bombardment of near-Earth space continues, with a G1 geomagnetic storm now forecast for 22 July to add to the unsettled conditions. Two launches sit on the manifest for late July, keeping the

SPACE PULSE Saturday, July 19, 2026 — Daily Space & Astronomy Briefing ⚡ TL;DR NASA's Psyche spacecraft has released Mars flyby imagery and time-lapse video from its May 15, 2026 gravity-assist maneuver, the mission's biggest milestone en route to asteroid Psyche in 2029. [1] [2]