Space

SPACE PULSE Thursday, September 4, 2026 | Edition 246 ⚡ TL;DR BepiColombo is arriving at Mercury after eight years in transit, marking one of ESA's most consequential planetary milestones in years. Meanwhile the sun is restless, Roman is outbound, and the launch calendar is filling fast. 🚀 LAUNCHES ISRO GISAT-

SPACE PULSE Wednesday, 2 September 2026 | 22:00 UTC ⚡ TL;DR NASA has awarded Blue Origin a firm-fixed-price contract to build the Mars Telecommunications Network, a high-bandwidth relay system for current and future Mars missions. A busy week of solar activity, lunar milestones, and ESA hardware news

SPACE PULSE Tuesday, September 2, 2026 ⚡ TL;DR NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, launched August 30 aboard a Falcon Heavy, is rapidly checking out: its antenna and sunshade deployed today and the Coronagraph Instrument has powered on for the first time. A busy 24 hours also brought

SPACE PULSE Monday, 31 August 2026 | Edition 243 ⚡ TL;DR NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope lifted off Sunday on a Falcon Heavy and is now en route to L2, marking the biggest US astronomy launch in over a decade. A busy close to August: a new DSN

SPACE PULSE Sunday, August 30, 2026 — Evening Edition ⚡ TL;DR NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope lifted off today on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy and is now cruising toward its final orbit, marking the most significant NASA astrophysics launch in years. [1] [2] [3] Alongside that headline, a

SPACE PULSE Monday, August 24, 2026 — Evening Edition ⚡ TL;DR ESA's MTG-I2 weather satellite lifted off on Ariane 6 flight VA270 today, completing Europe's first Meteosat Third Generation Imager pair and unlocking unprecedented forecasting over Europe and northern Africa. [1] A busy week ahead: four