Space & Aerospace news — Tuesday 29 September 2026

NASASpaceFlight 21:48 UTC

Four orbital launches are expected this week, all by SpaceX’s Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy vehicles. From Florida, Crew-13 will launch to the International Space Station while Falcon Heavy will launch a payload for the National Reconnaissance…

NASA News 21:27 UTC

3 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Banner image for 2027 Human Lander Challenge. NASA NASA’s 2027 Human Lander Challenge is seeking ideas from college and university students to help address one…

NASA News 21:00 UTC

NASA has awarded a contract to Omitron Inc. for the acquisition of orbital safety analysis services, which provide for critical protection of NASA spaceflight assets and astronaut lives. This indefinite-delivery contract is valued at…

NASA News 20:55 UTC

Caption: Broadway performers are seen as they sing during the opening ceremony of the 70th International Astronautical Congress, Oct. 21, 2019 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington. Credit: NASA/Joel Kowsky Editor’s…

SpaceNews 20:32 UTC

Paris, France | September 2026 — Novaspace’s Satellite Communications for Defense and Security, 2nd Edition highlights a defense Satcom market poised for rapid growth. By 2035, commercial satellite service revenues […] The post Commercial…

NASA News 20:08 UTC

Credit: NASA In accordance with a contract on-ramp clause, NASA has added Blue Origin’s New Glenn 9×4 launch service to the NASA Launch Services (NLS) II contract. The New Glenn 9×4 launch service will be available to NASA’s Launch…

NASA News 18:57 UTC

The four members of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-13 mission to the International Space Station pose together for an official crew portrait. From left are Roscosmos cosmonaut Sergey Teteryatnikov, NASA astronauts Luke Delaney and Jessica Watkins, and…

SpaceNews 17:42 UTC

IRVINE, Calif. – Sept. 29, 2026 – Terran Orbital, a Lockheed Martin company and a global leader in satellite-based solutions primarily serving the aerospace and defense industries, today announced the […] The post Terran Orbital Names…

NASA News 15:31 UTC

SpaceX Ahead of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-13 mission launch, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft are vertical at the launch pad of Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida in this Sept. 27, 2026, photo…

NASA News 15:11 UTC

2 Min Read NASA Opens Applications for Second Season of ORBIT Student Challenge Following a successful inaugural year of ingenuity and career building, NASA ORBIT (Opportunities in Research, Business, Innovation, and Technology) has…

Ars Technica Space 14:39 UTC

Back in the 1930s, scientists noticed that water fleas and rats fed restricted diets while young went on to live longer. The same effect has since turned up in fruit flies and mice. What we did not know was how a meal eaten in infancy…

NASA News 14:20 UTC

NSTGRO Homepage Omar Alyousef University Of Memphis Polycatenated Architected Materials (PAM) for Origami-Inspired Space Docking Ports Cade Armstrong University Of Texas at Austin Intelligent Multi-Agent Constellations for Cooperative…

NASA News 14:00 UTC

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SpaceNews 11:00 UTC

On September 9, 2026, Evan Hubinger, Anthropic’s alignment science lead, said on social media that he personally believed there was a greater than 10% chance that artificial intelligence could kill […] The post If AI cannot be trusted in a…

NASA News 04:05 UTC

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NASA News 01:27 UTC

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