DSS-23 began operations on 3 August 2026. Its arrival adds capacity while older antennas, maintenance outages and competing mission requests continue to shape the network’s schedule.
After the January 2025 inauguration, federal datasets and pages began disappearing, changing or losing fields. Researchers raced to preserve copies, while roughly 3,000 removals were reported across 2025 and the exact count remains contested.
Radar confirms that the Mare Tranquillitatis pit leads into a cave, while kilometre-wide lunar tubes remain a modelled possibility whose existence and habitability have not been demonstrated.
A new traffic-management study tests how Gateway and visiting spacecraft could wait in the same unstable lunar orbit without allowing small errors to erase their safety margin.
Ingenuity's 2,400-rpm rotors were one part of a complete system built to generate lift in an atmosphere less than one per cent as dense as Earth's—and to survive long enough to do it 72 times.
The placemat, the 600-mile figure and the real cover experiment all come from the National Reconnaissance Office's own history of Grab and its successor Poppy. No footnote in that pamphlet ties a statement about Grab to a specific record, two of its figure references point at the wrong launch, a third disagrees with its own text on a date, and its claim about being first is narrower than it looks in summary.
After GSLV-F17 placed EOS-05 in a transfer orbit, three spacecraft burns carried it into an estimated 34,903-by-35,884-kilometre geosynchronous orbit. Reaching that orbit does not establish that radar commissioning or operational image delivery is complete.
Project Horizon was paid for out of an office's existing budget, because the general who ordered it wrote back that no new money was available, and delivered just under twelve weeks later in two volumes. By March 1960 it had been passed to NASA. Most of its arithmetic is still legible, and where it can be read it matches the summary the Army now publishes on the cargo but not on the rockets.
A billionaire's ocean salvage operation recovered hardware from humanity's greatest journey—including an engine that burned on Apollo 11's launch pad fifty years before.
A Harvard-led team has kept peppercorn-sized human brain organoids alive and maturing for over five years — more than triple the previous 694-day record — with the tissue tracking human developmental time so closely that older cells can skip ahead by months when prompted.
Perseverance's planned $2.7 billion life-cycle cost covered a one-way robotic mission. A human Mars campaign adds years of life support, heavy landing, ascent and return, while old $500 billion figures describe broader programmes rather than a settled price for one expedition.
Katalyst Space recovered LINK from a severe tumble, but the remaining attitude-control problem made capture too risky. Swift has now resumed science while its orbit continues to decay.
Earth-Mars radio latency ranges from about three to 22.4 minutes one way, while solar conjunction can force planned pauses in commanding and makes local crew and spacecraft autonomy unavoidable.
Aldrin's brief glimpse, the missing Tranquility Base shadow and decades of lunar exposure reconstruct the likely fate of Apollo 11's ordinary nylon flag.
For most of the twentieth century, weather forecasts rarely held past two days, and the Southern Hemisphere got even less warning. The story of how orbital sentinels moved the ceiling from two days to ten.
NASA's FALCON experiment used Starling's cameras and an onboard catalogue to determine its orbit without GPS, while separately refining more than 200 object tracks.
