Space & Aerospace
Space & Aerospace news — Friday 23 October 2026
10 stories from 3 sources, every one in English. Each links to its publisher.
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NASA, Partners Accelerate Lander Development for 2028 Moon Missions
NASA News
7 Min Read NASA, Partners Accelerate Lander Development for 2028 Moon Missions As NASA returns humans to the lunar surface and establishes a long-term presence on our closest celestial neighbor, the agency and commercial human landing…
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NASA’s Artemis III Mission to Test Future Moon Lander Operations
NASA News
Before astronauts return to the lunar surface, NASA will first conduct one of the most ambitious and complex test missions in the agency’s history. Launching in 2027, Artemis III will send NASA astronauts Randy Bresnik, Frank Rubio, Andre…
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NASA’s Swift Mission Ends, Leaves Behind Scientific Bonanza
NASA News
4 min read NASA’s Swift Mission Ends, Leaves Behind Scientific Bonanza NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory has ended its science mission now that the spacecraft is orbiting less than 171 miles (275 kilometers) above Earth’s surface. The…
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Nov. 5: Satellite Mission Management at the Edge
SpaceNews
Join us to explore how emerging technologies and commercial capabilities are transforming satellite operations The post Nov. 5: Satellite Mission Management at the Edge appeared first on SpaceNews .
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Inside the Pentagon, the pressure is on to find a home for a new spaceport
Ars Technica Space
Leaders in the US Space Force would like to have a new spaceport up and running in four years, adding a third heavy-lift launch site to relieve pressure from bases in Florida and California that have shot rockets into orbit for nearly 70…
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RS-25 Engine Tests at NASA Stennis
NASA News
NASA/Danny Nowlin Teams at NASA’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi tested RS-25 engine No. 10001 on Oct. 21, 2026. The hot fire test lasted for almost eight-and-a-half minutes (500 seconds), the same amount of time…
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NASA, Virginia Launch Power Partnership for Energy Security
NASA News
3 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) NASA is helping to foster long-term energy security in Virginia. NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, is partnering with the Virginia…
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Crows can evaluate visual info twice as fast as mammals
Ars Technica Space
Much of what we know about how a brain makes decisions comes from studying monkeys watching dots. In a task known as a random-dot-motion task, a cloud of flickering specks drifts weakly in one direction while the subject tries to determine…
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APOD: 2026 October 23 – Andromeda in Southern Spring
NASA News
APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 October 23 –… Today’s APOD <a href="https://scien
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El Niño Then and Now
NASA News
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