NASA’s TSIS-2 Mission Aces Vacuum, Vibration Testing
The bright white lights reflect off the metallic hardware of a satellite poised for inspection.
Weekly digests · 26 Oct – 1 Nov 2026
Week 44, 2026
287 stories that week, most of them about the solar system, satellites & orbit, telescopes & instruments.
The week's biggest
2026 October 26 – M42: The Great Nebula in Orion
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Ghostly Cat’s Head Nebula Lurks Within Sight of NASA’s Hubble, Webb
Like a spectral form rising out of a cold mist, NASA’s Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes have captured a hauntingly dynamic…
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Sunshade for NASA’s NEO Surveyor Mission Ready for Its Day in Sun
Development of NASA’s Near-Earth Object (NEO) Surveyor mission continues as the spacecraft’s largest component gets closer to how it will look when…
Galaxies SIG Seminar, 2 Nov 2026
Roman eXtreme Deep Field (RXDF): What it is and What it Will Do. Speaker: Haojing Yan
Untied Launch Alliance announces mid-November return to flight for Vulcan rocket
The anticipated launch will be the first for the heavy-lift rocket since a mid-flight nozzle failure on a solid rocket booster.
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13:33 UTC
Artemis III: Paving the Way to Lunar Landings
NASA Human Landing System engineers discuss the Artemis III lunar lander test articles and docking operations that will…
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NASA’s Lucy Reaches Trojan Asteroid Region 5 Years After Launch
Having traveled more than 2.2 billion miles since it launched on Oct.
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Astronauts Are Go For Thursday’s Power Upgrade Spacewalk
Mission managers have given the go for Thursday’s spacewalk to install a new roll-out solar array on the…
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NASA’s TRACERS First Results Offers Peek into Violent Magnetic Process
NASA’s TRACERS (Tandem Reconnection and Cusp Electrodynamics Reconnaissance Satellites) mission has gathered its first clues to how space…
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17:30 UTC
NASA’s Voyager 1 Conserves Power, Resolves Brief Communications Pause
NASA’s Voyager team is celebrating two recent developments with the Voyager 1 spacecraft: In September, they successfully completed…
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The Sun
The Sun
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NASA’s UVEX Space Telescope Successfully Passes Key Milestone
Agency officials have confirmed NASA’s UVEX space telescope after completing a technical and programmatic review known as Key…
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Publications
2026 Wang, Z., Roy, S., Maskey, M. and Ramachandran, R., 2026. The exact LCU sampling overhead of collective…
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Habitable Worlds Observatory SIG Seminar, 28 Oct 2026
Habitable Worlds Observatory SIG Seminar. 10:00 am PT / 1:00 pm ET
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HWO UV-VIS Technology Maturation Study
HWO UV-VIS Technology Maturation Study; Phase 1 Proposals Due 20 November 2026
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14:21 UTC
AI/ML STIG Lecture Series, 26 Oct 2026
Retrieval and Memory (RAG and Beyond). Speaker: Kartheik lyer (U of Hawaii, Manoa)
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17:00 UTC
HEASARC Website Offline for Upgrades
he High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center (HEASARC) website is currently offline while we perform necessary upgrades…
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10:38 UTC
AI/ML STIG Lecture Series, 2 Nov 2026
Skills and Benchmarks. Speaker: Tousif Islam (UT Austin)
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14:32 UTC
A City Doesn’t Grow at One Speed
Using decades of Landsat and Sentinel-2 images, researchers discover the Urban Pulse to help track the cycles and…
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17:42 UTC
Spaceflight Science Foundations (ROSES B.8)
We are seeking virtual panelists and/or external (email) reviewers for Spaceflight Science Foundations (ROSES B.8).
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APOD: 2026 October 26 – M42: The Great Nebula in Orion
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GR SIG Seminar, 30 Oct 2026
FLAG SAG Report Discussion. Speakers: Liz Hays / Henric Krawczynski 12:00pm ET
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Cosmology
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20:38 UTC
Adventures in Wildfire Smoke Stratospheric Ballooning
The student ballooning team at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities went to work tracking the plume of…
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14:44 UTC
2026 Honor Awards Appreciation Program
November 4, 2026 2026 Honor Awards Appreciation Program Wednesday, November 4, 2026 Ceremony: 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.
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HWO SIG Seminar, 28 Oct 2026
Habitable Worlds Observatory SIG Seminar. 10:00 am PT / 1:00 pm ET
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18:42 UTC
AMMB STIG Seminar, 2 Nov 2026
M2M Technology Gaps. 11am PT / 2pm ET
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19:24 UTC
NASA Celebrates a Year of Progress Since First X-59 Flight
One year ago, NASA’s Quesst mission made history with the first flight of the X-59 quiet supersonic research…
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17:48 UTC
HEASARC Back Online
We are happy to report that the HEASARC web site and services are back online.
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Cosmology
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03:11 UTC
NASA Systems Engineering Team Details HWO Mission Architecture
Finding an Earth-like world beyond the solar system is the Holy Grail of exoplanet research, and the field…
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NASA's New UV Space Telescope Will Launch in 2031
NASA has committed to launching a new, more powerful UV space telescope.
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