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Space Daily Editorial Team

Editorial Team

The Space Daily Editorial Team produces content across our two editorial pillars: space industry news and Mind & Meaning. We cover launches, missions, satellites, defense, and the technology of getting humans to space, alongside the psychology of ambition, isolation, and meaning under extremes. Articles reflect our team's collective editorial process, source verification, drafting, technical review, and editing, rather than a single writer's work. Space Daily takes editorial responsibility for content under this byline. For more on how we work, see our editorial policy.

Science

In 1859, the Carrington solar storm sent currents surging through telegraph wires, shocking operators, igniting telegraph paper and allowing some lines to transmit with their batteries disconnected. A comparable storm today could cause widespread blackouts—and one influential worst-case assessment warned that full recovery might take four to ten years, although experts remain divided over how severe the damage would actually be.

The 1859 Carrington storm set telegraph offices sparking. A repeat could threaten modern power grids, and a much-quoted worst-case put full recovery at four to ten years, though experts disagree on the true scale.

Jul 10, 2026

Science

Saturn’s rings are so young that dinosaurs would have looked up at a ringless planet, and measurements from the Cassini probe suggest they are being pulled into the planet fast enough to disappear entirely

Cassini data point two ways at once: Saturn's rings look like a recent addition, younger than most of the dinosaur era, and they are draining into the planet fast enough to vanish.

Jul 10, 2026

Science

Israel’s Beresheet lander crashed into the Moon in 2019 carrying several thousand tardigrades in a dehydrated, dormant state—and although later experiments suggest they probably did not survive the impact, nobody knows whether any remain intact enough to be revived if they were ever recovered and rehydrated.

Beresheet crashed in 2019 with thousands of dormant tardigrades aboard. A later impact study suggests they probably did not survive, but the case is not closed.

Jul 10, 2026

Technology

Bots have overtaken humans on one of the internet’s largest networks — for the first time, agentic AI is pushing web-page requests past the halfway line

For much of the internet's life, you could assume a person sat at the other end of most clicks.

Jul 10, 2026

Technology

The average American now spends over three hours a day on a phone, checking it nearly 200 times — roughly once every five waking minutes — a rhythm of attention no earlier generation ever knew

Most of us reach for the phone, check it, and put it down again a couple of hundred times a day.

Jul 10, 2026

Technology

A century before the first computer existed, a young Englishwoman wrote what is now called the first algorithm for a machine that was never even built — and foresaw that such engines might one day compose music, not merely crunch numbers

In 1843 someone published a step-by-step method for a machine to carry out a calculation — now widely seen as the first algorithm ever written for a machine.

Jul 9, 2026

Space Medicine

Returning astronauts describe pain in the soles of the feet and lower back within days of landing — the spine suddenly forced to support half the body’s weight again after months of weightlessness

Astronauts returning from long-duration missions almost universally report burning pain in the soles of the feet and deep lower-back ache within days of landing. The cause is a spine that grew by centimetres in orbit meeting Earth's gravity all at once.

Jul 9, 2026

Space Medicine

In 1973, Buzz Aldrin published a memoir admitting that coming home from the Moon had nearly destroyed him, breaking a code of silence inside the astronaut office where psychological difficulty was something you flew through rather than something you were ever allowed to name

Buzz Aldrin's 1973 memoir Return to Earth broke a quiet rule inside NASA by naming the depression that followed his Moon mission — and the pattern of post-mission identity collapse he described now shows up across almost every Apollo lunar module pilot.

Jul 9, 2026

Space Medicine

The inner-ear organs that tell your brain which way is down work every second of your life without you noticing — until orbit switches them off, and there is no gravity left for them to measure

The vestibular system runs silently every second of your life — until orbit removes the gravity its calcium-carbonate crystals were built to measure, and astronauts have to learn how to know which way is down all over again.

Jul 9, 2026

Tech Space

On July 7, a small Miami company called City Labs put a tritium-powered battery the size of a pencil eraser into orbit aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 — its softball-sized BOHR CubeSat becoming the first commercial spacecraft ever cleared to carry a nuclear power source under the FAA pathway built after a 2019 White House memo

Early Tuesday morning, a softball-sized satellite built by Miami's City Labs reached low Earth orbit aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9, becoming the first commercially…

Jul 9, 2026

GPS News

In 2012 a research team spoofed a drone out of the sky over a New Mexico missile range on a dare from the US government — proving a fake satellite signal could hijack navigation with off-the-shelf parts

In June 2012, University of Texas researcher Todd Humphreys took a dare from the Department of Homeland Security and used a homemade device to spoof a hovering drone out of the sky at White Sands Missile Range — showing that a fake GPS signal, built from off-the-shelf parts, could quietly steal control of civilian navigation.

Jul 9, 2026

Aerospace

A passenger jet 850 feet above the runway at Vilnius in January 2025 abandoned its landing when its instruments began quietly lying — nothing on the plane was broken, and it diverted to another country

In January 2025, a Swiss A220 aborted its landing at Vilnius at 850 feet after GPS spoofing fed its instruments false data. The aircraft was mechanically perfect — and had to divert to Warsaw.

Jul 9, 2026

GPS News

Spoofing a GPS receiver is worse than jamming it because the victim never knows — the screen stays calm and confident while feeding a pilot a runway that sits somewhere else entirely

In September 2017, twenty ships near Novorossiysk watched their GPS receivers calmly place them at an airport 25 miles inland. No warning lights, no dropped signals — just a coherent lie broadcast on the correct frequency. Spoofing is the attack that hides itself, and modern aviation is only beginning to grapple with what it means when the instrument no longer knows it is being deceived.

Jul 9, 2026

GPS News

Todd Humphreys and his University of Texas team steered an $80 million superyacht off course in 2013 while its crew watched instruments that swore everything was fine — using gear costing a few thousand dollars

In June 2012, University of Texas professor Todd Humphreys and his students used a homemade GPS spoofer costing a few thousand dollars to secretly steer an $80 million superyacht off course in the Mediterranean — while every instrument on the bridge insisted the ship was on track.

Jul 9, 2026

Nuclear Space

In July 2026, a Miami startup called City Labs sent a softball-sized CubeSat carrying a tritium battery into orbit on SpaceX’s Transporter-17 rideshare, becoming the first commercially built nuclear-powered satellite ever launched and the first mission ever cleared through the Federal Aviation Administration’s new nuclear licensing process

A softball-sized satellite from a small Miami company has quietly rewritten the rules of who gets to fly nuclear power in space.

Jul 9, 2026

Science

Physics says time travel into the future is not a thought experiment — every astronaut who has orbited Earth has returned a fraction of a second younger than they would have been if they had stayed on the ground

Time travel into the future sounds like a fiction problem until it is written in the language of clocks.

Jul 9, 2026