NASA’s Moon Base Buildout: Where the Money Goes

By Space Investor, Posted on X.com, 8 November 2026 NASA named 15 companies in its latest Moon Base announcement. Cargo landers, a nuclear-powered rover, Earth-to-Moon transportation, communications satellites and surface power. The headline number is $10 billion. The more immediate work includes six transportation task orders worth about $1.3 billion

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Artemis II launch tore a hole in Earth’s atmosphere, say scientists

By Ian Todd, Published by Sky at Night Magazine, 6 November 2026 The launch of Artemis II caused three distinct disturbances in Earth's ionosphere NASA's Artemis II mission caused enormous disturbances in Earth's atmosphere that scientists say could have disrupted GPS and other communications. The pre-print study by scientists from

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US rockets firm eyes up mothballed Highland spaceport

The spaceport site is on the A' Mhoine Peninsula in Sutherland. Getty Images Published by the BBC, 6 November 2026 A rockets manufacturer says the mothballed Sutherland Spaceport could become its first launch site outside the US. Colorado-based Leap has agreed to work with Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE), which

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