Space & Aerospace
Space & Aerospace news — Monday 28 September 2026
19 stories from 5 sources, every one in English. Each links to its publisher.
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October’s Night Sky Notes: Spooky Stargazing
NASA News
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NASA, Boeing outline Starliner’s return path to ISS crew rotations
NASASpaceFlight
NASA and Boeing have laid out a revised path for Starliner that puts an uncrewed engineering flight first, a crewed return in 2028, extra station missions on the books, and a new launcher in the certification pipeline. Speaking Monday…
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New device captures carbon dioxide by pumping it across a battery
Ars Technica Space
Equipment to capture carbon dioxide from ambient air or smokestacks generally works through a sort of reversible filter. Air is passed through granules or a liquid that absorbs the CO 2 , then that CO 2 -loaded substance undergoes a…
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NASA, Boeing Share Update on Commercial Starliner Development Plans
NASA News
Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft that launched NASA’s Crew Flight Test astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams to the International Space Station is pictured docked to the Harmony module’s forward port. This long-duration photograph was…
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NASA Armstrong Celebrates 80 Years of Flight Innovation
NASA News
On Sept. 30, 1946, five National Advisory Committee of Aeronautics (NACA) engineers arrived at Muroc Army Airfield in California’s high desert to achieve supersonic flight for the first time. In less than two years, NACA flew the X-1…
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Scientists solve 1840s space weather mystery
Ars Technica Space
The infamous Carrington Event of 1859 has long been considered the first extreme space weather event, but there have been reports of minor disturbances to telegraph equipment during geomagnetic storms since the late 1840s. In 2013…
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NASA Highlights Lessons Learned From Swift Boost Mission
NASA News
6 min read NASA Highlights Lessons Learned From Swift Boost Mission A commercial mission to boost NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory concluded without raising the spacecraft’s orbit, but the agency and industry vendor Katalyst Space…
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NASA Celebrates as Artemis Accords Surpasses 75 Signatories
NASA News
Credit: NASA Marking a significant expansion in the number of signatories to the Artemis Accords, NASA welcomed Albania , Croatia , Côte d’Ivoire , and San Marino , bringing total participation to 76 countries. “Our momentum reflects a…
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Meet NASA’s Artemis II Crew During Houston Public Event
NASA News
The Artemis II crew (clockwise from left) Mission Specialist Christina Koch, Mission Specialist Jeremy Hansen, Commander Reid Wiseman, and Pilot Victor Glover pause for a group photo with their zero gravity indicator “Rise,” inside the…
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What You Need to Know About NASA’s SpaceX Crew-13 Mission
NASA News
The SpaceX Crew-13 members pose for a portrait in their pressure suits during a preflight training session at the company’s headquarters in Hawthorne, California. From left are, Roscosmos cosmonaut Sergey Teteryatnikov, NASA astronauts…
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Space Station View of Earth at Night
NASA News
NASA/Jessica Meir This nighttime view of the United States, dotted with city lights looking toward New York City (center), was taken at approximately 3:40 a.m. local time on Sept. 8, 2026, from the International Space Station as it orbited…
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Space is everyone’s business: Economist Enterprise’s 4th annual Space Economy Summit returns to Orlando
SpaceNews
ORLANDO, FL — September 28th, 2026 — Space is rapidly becoming a practical business tool for industries far beyond aerospace, as satellite intelligence, resilient connectivity and other space-enabled technologies create […] The post Space…
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NASA ORBIT Challenge 2027
NASA News
1 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) The NASA ORBIT (Opportunities in Research, Business, Innovation, and Technology for the Workforce) Challenge invites university and community college students…
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Contractor to Civil Servant: NASA Welcomes Kristie Foster
NASA News
Kristie Foster, quality engineer at NASA’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, poses for a photograph inside the High Pressure Industrial Water Facility on Sept. 10, 2026. Foster is now a NASA civil servant at Stennis as…
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Agile Space Industries Expands Leadership Structure to Support Next Phase of Growth
SpaceNews
DURANGO, Colo., Sept. 28, 2026 – Agile Space Industries today announced that Jason Wright will join the company as President in early October, strengthening Agile’s operational leadership as the company […] The post Agile Space Industries…
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APOD: 2026 September 28 – Cosmic Latte: The Average Color of the Universe
NASA News
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Generative AI Gives Spacecraft the Autonomy Engineers Once Feared
IEEE Aerospace
Space was always supposed to be the final frontier of human exploration. It’s shaping up to be the final frontier for artificial intelligence too. Last December, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory used Anthropic’s Claude models to help plan…
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Reliable Robots: Meet Johnson’s Dexterous Robotics Team
NASA News
Dexterous Robotics Team lead Shaun Azimi conducts a demonstration with NASA’s Valkyrie humanoid robot. NASA The idea of humans and robots working side-by-side in space was once the stuff of science fiction, but with NASA launching…
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Uncovering the Valleys Hidden Below Greenland’s Ice
NASA News
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