Here is a list of news that were published in our Newsletter during the week of August 23, 2026:
Human Space Exploration
- New clues about how space travel may affect women’s health;
- In case of catastrophe on Earth the Moon could be humanity’s salvation Roscosmos CEO;
- ‘You just saved the video dish’: Two astronauts complete spacewalk to replace ISS antenna;
- NC State honors astronaut Christina Koch with a building and something sweeter;
- Watch 2 astronauts replace failed ISS antenna during spacewalk today;
- NASA targets June 2027 for Artemis III Earth-orbit test, not Moon landing;
- Inside NASA Marshall’s progress on Artemis III hardware, plans for new SLS upper stage;
- Artemis II crew to be presented United States’ top spaceflight medal;
- SpaceX fires up Starship ahead of megarocket’s 1st orbital flight (video);
- After a quiet 2026, ISRO targets Gaganyaan lift-off in four months;
Space Science
- Rochester’s L3Harris helps with NASA telescope that aims to unlock secrets of universe
Coalition Member in the News – L3Harris; - NASA is gearing up to launch its next flagship space telescope combining spy technology with sophisticated infrared detectors;
- NASA’s Webb Telescope rules out two new Dyson Sphere candidates;
- Microbes might get freeze-dried on the Moon’s south pole;
- Bizarre “thermal anomaly” may explain Mars two-faced appearance;
- Tiny stars are making the early universe much harder to explain;
- Did ocean motion carve Enceladus’s tiger stripes?;
- Inside the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, NASA’s next great observatory;
- The little red dots of our cosmos might hide something big;
- Breakthrough in a bizarre galaxy could help unlock the mystery of dark matter;
- NASA starshade would enable astronomers to directly image rocky exoworlds;
- It’s been 20 years since Pluto lost planet status. Will it ever get its title back?;
- China delays launch of unprecedented water-hunting Moon mission amid space race;
- NASA-led study shows some Earth microbes could survive on the Moon;
Other News
- GOP spat stalls NASA bill amid Trump’s ambitious Moon base push;
- After the failure of private rescue mission, NASA’s Swift space telescope will crash back to Earth. But when and where?;
- Partial lunar eclipse stuns skywatchers with an ‘almost blood moon’. Here are the best photos;
- Rare red northern lights may be visible alongside red moon during tomorrow night’s partial lunar eclipse;
- SpaceX ends Falcon 9 Starlink launches from Florida as Starship era begins;
- China and Russia are nipping at America’s heels in the new space race;
- SpaceX introduces new Louisiana Starbase;
- White House policy sets goal of supporting 1,000 rocket launches a year by 2030;
- Lunar eclipse this week and geomagnetic storm watch;
- Near-total lunar eclipse is coming up with the Americas in prime position;
- NASA awards Texas Space Commission one of seven state hubs for skilled technical workforce in Texas;
Major Space-Related Activities for the Week
- In order, events this week include an ISS spacewalk on Tuesday in which NASA’s Anil Memon and the European Space Agency’s Sophie Adenot will team to complete the installation of high data rate, space to ground Ku band communications antenna, replacing a similar antenna that experienced gimbaling mechanism difficulties last November. The spacewalk is to start at 8:35 a.m. EDT. Installation was delayed during their August 18 spacewalk when it took longer than planned to remove the initial antenna from the ISS’s Z-1 truss segment.
- President Trump is to visit NASA’s Johnson Space Center on Friday to present the Artemis II astronaut crew, NASA’s Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch plus Canadian Space Agency’s Jeremy Hansen with the Congressional Medal of Honor for their April journey around the far side of the Moon and back to Earth.
- Launch of NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center is planned for Sunday at 7:26 a.m. EDT. The observatory is to join the James Webb Space Telescope at the Sun/Earth Lagrange Point 2 in Earth orbit to provide a high-resolution, wide deep space view to study potentially habitable extrasolar planets as well as dark energy and dark matter.
- The 40th Small Satellite Conference convened on Sunday in Salt Lake City, Utah and runs through Wednesday. Meanwhile, the U.S. House and Senate remain in recess this week.
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