Aerospace The UAE didn't have a space agency twelve years ago. It now has a probe at Mars, a seat at the UN's new space-safety body, and a plan to be in the global top 10 by 2031. By Space Daily Editorial Team · May 18, 2026
Aerospace The Apollo Guidance Computer that landed humans on the Moon had less processing power than a modern microwave, and the engineers programmed it with rope memory that was hand-woven by women who were called "Little Old Ladies" in the official documentation — and the entire system worked because they were never wrong By Space Daily Editorial Team · May 18, 2026
Aerospace SpaceX has launched more rockets in the past four years than the Soviet Union launched during the entire Space Race, and the cost per kilogram to low Earth orbit has dropped about 95% since 2010 — which has quietly rewritten the economics of every space program on the planet without most of the public quite registering it. By Space Daily Editorial Team · May 18, 2026
Aerospace The James Webb Space Telescope is parked a million miles from Earth at a gravitational sweet spot called L2, and the only way to refuel or service it is to send another spacecraft on a one-way mission that hasn't been designed yet, which means every photograph it takes for the rest of its life is being captured by an instrument we've already accepted we can't save By Space Daily Editorial Team · May 18, 2026
Aerospace The Voyager Golden Record was pressed in 1977 with greetings in 55 languages and a sample of human music ranging from Beethoven to Chuck Berry — and the engineers who chose what to include had six weeks to decide what humanity wanted to say to whoever might eventually find it By Space Daily Editorial Team · May 18, 2026
Aerospace The four astronauts who flew farther from Earth than any humans in history have just come back. The advice they're giving the rest of us has almost nothing to do with space. By Space Daily Editorial Team · May 18, 2026
Mars Daily NASA's Perseverance rover is about to finish its first marathon on Mars, and it's taken the six-wheeled robot more than five years to do it By Space Daily Editorial Team · May 17, 2026
Aerospace The Artemis 2 astronauts came home from 252,756 miles away with the same line — "planet Earth, you are a crew" — and it's the kind of thing that sounds like a slogan until you hear who said it and why By Space Daily Editorial Team · May 15, 2026
Human Behaviour NASA schedules 8.5 hours of sleep for astronauts — and I think it says something quietly unsettling about the way many of us live By Mal James · May 14, 2026
Aerospace Airbus says will back two new European fighter jets 'if clients request' By Space Daily Editorial Team · Feb 18, 2026
Aerospace Germany does not need same fighter jets as France: Merz By Space Daily Editorial Team · Feb 17, 2026
Aerospace Berlin flights scrapped, delayed by icy winter weather By Space Daily Editorial Team · Feb 2, 2026
Aerospace Airlines told to cut Paris flights amid snow warnings By Space Daily Editorial Team · Feb 2, 2026
Aerospace Indonesia receives first batch of French-made Rafale jets By Space Daily Editorial Team · Jan 21, 2026
Aerospace Airline sector falling behind on clean fuel switch: IATA By Space Daily Editorial Team · Jan 21, 2026