LAGRANGIAN
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Curated By:
Maharshi Bhattacharya
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Sep 21, 2026
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Issue 120 | Breaking Space News: Sep 13 - 19, 2026
US has admitted to operating weapons in Earth orbit, triggereing global scrutiny over space law compliance. The Week in Space News: Moon water may not last long enough to sustain a lunar city, moon dust may have microscopic signs of alien technology, rocket fuel out of Mars' thin air, and houses on Mars built with yeast and gelatin. Plus: US military officials tout AI-satellite surveillance and cislunar superiority, Germany becomes first government to buy Planet's satellite services, NASA awards SpaceX three more crew missions to ISS worth $946 million, surge in D2D satellite deals and more.
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Sep 14, 2026
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Issue 119 | Breaking Space News: Sep 6 - 12, 2026
Golden Dome space interceptors may have a cost and physics issue. The Week in Space News: US FCC plans to exempt satellite constellations from environmental reviews, and China's Tianwen-3 targets 2028 launch for Earth's first Mars sample-return mission, as the planet is set to cross 1.5 degree warming limit within years. Plus: The moon may have formed within hours of impact, a falling atom experiment supports Einstein's gravity theory and more.
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Sep 8, 2026
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Issue 118 | Breaking Space News: Aug 30 - Sep 5, 2026
A nonprofit wants to send an 80,000-year mission to our closest star system, Alpha Centauri, and a dark matter detector has recorded its most compelling signal yet. The Week in Space News: NASA-backed study aims to detect space minerals, mining sites from orbit, a new RAND report warns US space industry can't rebuild military satellites fast enough, and China's Galactic Energy and Europe's Isar Aerospace have reached new launch milestones. Plus: Quantum imaging startup Diffraqtion, Spanish launcher PLD Space, German rocket firm HyImpulse and physics-AI software firm BQP, closed new funding rounds, EU, ESA and NASA awarded new contracts to OHB, Creotech Instruments and Blue Origin, and more.
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Sep 1, 2026
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Issue 117 | Breaking Space News: Aug 23 - 29, 2026
The Nancy Roman Space Telescope is on its way to the Sun-Earth Lagrange Point 2: will survey the universe a thousand times faster. President Trump wants a US Space Academy to train the space workforce. The Week in Space News: NASA awarded a slew of new contracts, civil space-traffic system updates, and China's Long March stage fragments in orbit into hundreds of pieces. Plus: ESA awards €543M in first Launcher Challenge contracts to Isar, RFA, PLD Space and SpaceX to build $100B Starship spaceport in Louisiana.
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Aug 24, 2026
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Issue 116 | Breaking Space News: Aug 16 - 22, 2026
Why does microgravity cause constipation in astronauts? Meanwhile, Trump signs new US policy targeting 1,000 annual launches by 2030 and China’s Chang’e‐7 preps its lunar ice‐hunting mission. The week in Space News: The first French woman to spacewalk, plasma gun for doing laundry in space, floating "aerobots" to explore the caves of Saturn's moon Titan, NASA abandons Swift observatory boost plan, and fastest known star orbits the center of the Milky Way at over 8% the speed of light. Plus: EU sanctions Russian space-sector executives, USAF plane turns back from Antarctica over Russian space-activity warning, Landspace becomes the first Chinese company to recover an orbital‐class booster and more.
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Aug 17, 2026
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Issue 115 | Breaking Space News: Aug 9 - 15, 2026
The largest 2D map of the universe has 4 billion objects in it and empty space may not be empty after all. The week in Space: Pentagon has launched a digital hub for contractors to pitch missile-defense concepts, Bulgaria is building "Europe's largest space and defense hub," NASA invites ISRO to join its lunar Moon Base program and SpaceX is becoming the core US missile-defense supplier under the Golden Dome program. Plus: Golden Dome is facing funding gap as contractors ramp development and more.
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Aug 11, 2026
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Issue 114 | Breaking Space News: Aug 2 - 8, 2026
Does Europe risk dependence on China for orbital data centers? The week in space: A SpaceX rocket debris crashed into the moon, while the company nearly doubles revenue, readies Starship for first orbital attempt, and plans to set up robot-run lunar factories. A fabric antenna for ice-hunting Martian helicopters, the 48-year-old Voyager 2 mission's science operations extended for another year, a bipartisan US bill to expand Space Force training for conflict with China, RFA's debut launch delay, and more.
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Aug 6, 2026
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Issue 113 | Breaking Space News: July 26 - Aug 1, 2026
Bread as a sign of intelligence - search for alien life could expand to detecting non‐technological signs of cognition. Meanwhile, Sophia Space and Caltech secure patent for space-based data centers. The week in space: For the first time space debris in GEO is tracked in real time using radio‐telescope and the US FAA wants to bypass environmental laws for launches and reentries. Plus: Intel enters space chip market with Starfire processor, US Space Force awards $3.4 billion across launch, comms and missile defense, Space Force Association unveils orbital warfare simulator prototype, Spain commits up to €2 billion for new multi‐orbit military satcom system and more.
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Jul 27, 2026
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Issue 112 | Breaking Space News: July 19 - 25, 2026
An orbital datacenter frenzy, a spacecraft licensing overhaul, a satellite that reflects sunlight to the ground: space activities the US is encouraging without asking who bears the environmental cost. The week in space: launch costs fell 96% in 6 decades but debris, SpaceX monopoly are threats to future reductions. AI systems can be easily misled into detecting false signs of life in space, mysterious compound detected on Pluto and Titan and, Northrop’s new GEO servicing robotic system extends satellite life. Plus: EU orders 24‐hour delay of Copernicus imagery over Strait of Hormuz after US request, NASA workforce losses strain major programs, Vast strengthens defense focus and more.