LAGRANGIAN
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Curated By:
Maharshi Bhattacharya
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Apr 14, 2026
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Issue 97 | Breaking Space News: April 06 - 12, 2026
Planet Labs Restricting Iran Imagery Under US Pressure Sets A Worrying Precedent. Global Night‐Lights Are Flickering And Getting Brighter. The Week In Space News: Worms Fly To ISS For Study, US 2027 Budget Casts New Doubts Over TraCSS Space‐Traffic System, China And DRC Partner On Latter's National Satellite Plan, And US Military Wants Commercial Satellites For War Planning. Plus: EnduroSat-Shield Space Partner To Deploy Inspection Cubesats And Orbital Defense Mothership, Hungary To Get Its First Geosynchronous Satellite, LeoLabs’ New Delta Software Flags Unusual Satellite Behavior, HawkEye 360 Goes Public, And Apex Joins Orbital Datacenter Bandwagon.
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Apr 7, 2026
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Issue 96 | Breaking Space News: Mar 30 - Apr 05, 2026
Space Force Funding Surges As NASA Is Targeted Again With Major Budget Reductions for 2027. The Week in Space News: Artemis II Initiates Historic Return To Deep Space, SpaceX Files IPO Targeting Valuation of Over $1.75 Trillion And Another Starlink Satellite Breaks Apart. Plus: EU Financial Driver Of European Space Sector, China Tests Robotic Arm Refueling, European Firms Grow US Presence, Amazon Rebuts SpaceX Collision Risk Claims and More.
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Mar 31, 2026
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55 min read
Issue 95 | Breaking Space News: Mar 23 - 29, 2026
In Space, Sperms Have a Hard Time Finding the Egg. The Week in Space: We May Finally Know Where Sun's Magnetic Energy is Generated, NASA Will Develop a Nuclear‐Powered Interplanetary Spacecraft While Its Artemis, Commercial Space Station Updates Draw Industry Backlash. Plus: Mission Authorization in US to Become Easier, US Satellites Spy on Chinese Counterparts, Ispace Overhauls Lander and Missions, and Space Tech Investment Surges Across Navigation, Propulsion, AI, Mobility, and Spectrum. Meanwhile, New Earth-Like Alien Planets Identified and Can Fiber‐Optic Cables Sense Moonquakes?
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Mar 23, 2026
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Issue 94 | Breaking Space News: Mar 16 - 22, 2026
Thousands of Giant Mirrors And Millions of Data Centers Floating in Orbit, Threaten To Permanently Destroy The Night Sky. The Week In Space: Building Blocks of DNA, RNA Found in an Asteroid, and Are Alien Civilizations Intentionally Quiet? Now Private Companies are Part of US Wargaming, Geospatial Intelligence Demand Surges With Hormuz Blockade, Nvidia Unveils Space Computing Platform For On‐Orbit AI Processing, and Blue Origin Files for Thousands of Data Centers in Space. Plus: Debris-Removal-as-a-Service is Now a Thing and More.
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Mar 16, 2026
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59 min read
Issue 93 | Breaking Space News: Mar 9 - 15, 2026
US Lawmakers Push For a Permanent Lunar Base And Extend ISS Operations For Another Two Years. The Week In Space: Self‐Repairing Carbon‐Fiber Material, DART Impact Alters Asteroid Path, China’s Lunar Landing Site, I/ATLAS Updates, Van Allen Probe Crash, Russia’s Venus Mission, And Eutelsat’s Russian Satellite Lease. Plus: SES Teleport in Israel Hit By Missile, Anduril Buys SDA Firm, And More.
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Mar 10, 2026
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59 min read
Issue 92 | Breaking Space News: Mar 2 - 8, 2026
Is Space Weather Scrambling Alien Signals? Plus, Listen to X‐Ray Data From Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus. The Week in Space: Antarctica’s Rapid Ice Retreat, Evidence of Planet‐Hopping Microbes, the Largest 3D Early‐Universe Map, ESA’s Proba‐3 Delay, Solar Storm Hitting Mars Recorded, UK Space Funding, Solar Space Tech Innovation by Redwire and Rocket Lab, Japan’s Kairos Anomaly, A New Way to Measure Universe’s Expansion and More.
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Mar 3, 2026
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58 min read
Issue 91 | Breaking Space News: Feb 23 - Mar 1, 2026
Artemis III is Not Going to the Moon, as NASA Announces Massive Mission Overhaul and An Early‐Warning Method for Pinpointing Likely Solar Storm Eruptions. The Week in Space: A Cosmic Brain and a Spotless Sun, the Evolution of Antarctica’s Gravity Anomaly, and 13.7 Million Cosmic Objects—Black Holes, Galaxy Clusters and Supernova Remnants–Mapped. Plus: Tianwen-2 Cruising to Asteroid for Sample Recovery, DARPA's Uncrewed X-68A Readies for Tests, Rocket Lab Launches Australian-Made Hypersonix Scramjet for the US Military, US Space Force Updates and More.
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Feb 24, 2026
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51 min read
Issue 90 | Breaking Space News: Feb 16 - 22, 2026
Why Are Tatooine‐Like Worlds a Rarity? Meanwhile, SpaceX has Unveiled a Space Situational Awareness (SSA) System, Called Stargaze and First Direct Observation of a Space‐Debris Pollution Plume Reveals Lithium Spike After Falcon 9 Reentry. The Week in Space: GPS on Perseverance Rover, Plans for a Catapult on the Moon to Launch Satellites, Boeing's Starliner Update, Microbial Metal Extraction in Space and Artemis II Delayed Again. Plus: Rheinmetall's Interest in Mynaric, UK's Mandatory Liability Cap for Launch Operators, SatVu's NATO Funding, Pentagon wants Commercial GEO Spy Satellites, Google Earth AI-Vantor Partnership and More.
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Feb 17, 2026
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58 min read
Issue 89 | Breaking Space News: Feb 9 - 15, 2026
SpaceX to Shift Focus to a Self‐Growing Lunar City and New Analysis Links Megaconstellation Growth to Rising Uncontrolled Debris. The Week in Space: Bennu Asteroid Samples and Planetary Chemistry Models Point to a Universe Rich in Organics but Poor in Habitable Planets, NASA's Twin Launches, China's Mengzhou Tests, and Germany's Expanding Lunar Ambitions. Plus: Researchers Chart One Million Cislunar and Earth‐Orbit Trajectories, U.S. Senate Licensing Reforms, NASA–Roscosmos Talks, Amazon’s LEO Expansion, Vast’s Private Astronaut Mission, and More.