A Chinese LandSapce ZhuQue-3 booster, the country's first to successfully touch down on land. LandSpace By Joseph Trevithick, Published by TWZ, 19 August 2026 Earlier today, Chinese firm LandSpace achieved the country’s first successful recovery of a reusable space launch rocket booster on land. This follows China’s first-ever recovery of
A concept for a later phase of NASA's proposed lunar base. Credit: NASA By Therese Jones, Published by Space News, 17 August 2026 Earlier this month, a discarded SpaceX Falcon 9 upper stage crashed into the lunar surface at 8,700 kilometers per hour. This was not a controlled landing. The
Image by Getty / Futurism By Joseph Trevithick, Published by TWZ, 13 August, 2026 "Our space assets need to shoot, move, and communicate just like the rest of the joint force," the head of U.S. Space Command says. The head of U.S. Space Command (SPACECOM) says having a “credible, acknowledged”
By Thomas Novelly, Published by Defense One, 12 August 2026 Gen. Whiting adds to previous calls for new tech in his final speech to the SMD Symposium. HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — Space weapons and refuelable satellites are among the items needed to preserve the U.S. military’s orbital edge over China, the
SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket debris burns up over Ingersleben, Germany on Feb. 19, 2025. (Image credit: Bennett Theile) By Selam Gebrekidan, Published by the New York Times, 31 July 2026 Flaming chunks of metal crash into homes, farms and parking lots. Who’s to blame? And who pays for the damage?
Notional depiction of space-based interception. Elements of this illustration were created in MidJourney, an artificial intelligence tool. Credit: THOR Design Studio By William J. Astore, Published by New Internationalist, 22 July 2026 As space becomes an increasingly vital arena for war, William J Astore tracks its increased militarization. ‘One point five trillion
The Esrange Space Center lies among vast forests of pine and birch in the northernmost part of Sweden, 120 miles north of the Arctic Circle. Photograph: Mattias Forsberg/SSC By Thomas Novelly, Published by Defense One, 20 July 2026 The country sped up the launch due to the “severe security situation.”
Iran’s Khayyam satellite, the countryÆs only high-resolution imaging satellite, took this image of the Vogtle nuclear power plant in US state of Georgia.[4] By Matthew Mowthorpe, Markos Trichas and Damian Terrill, Published by The Space Review, 13 July 2026 This article analyzes how Iran used access to both commercial satellite
