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To reach Jupiter, Juice took a detour past Venus. Now it is returning to Earth for another gravitational boost, while using our Moon to rehearse the navigation it will need around Jupiter’s icy moons.
2026-09-23 — spacedaily.com


Visions of Moon cities often treat polar ice as a ready-made water supply, but estimates of hundreds of millions of tonnes reveal little about how much is concentrated, accessible and economical to mine—the real unsolved problem is extraction, not thirst.
2026-09-21 — spacedaily.com


In a William & Mary lab tank, a ribbon worm named Baseodiscus the Eldest has been quietly eating peanut worms in the mud for more than 20 years, and genetic analysis in 2024 confirmed his species while the tank record puts him at roughly 30 years old — the oldest ribbon worm ever recorded
2026-09-20 — spacedaily.com


Modern communications satellites receive and retransmit signals, but NASA’s first successful one carried no communications transponder. Echo 1A, launched in 1960, was a 30-metre-wide aluminized balloon that relayed radio signals simply by reflecting them between ground stations.
2026-09-20 — spacedaily.com


When Hubble swings from one galaxy to another, engineers fire no thrusters—Hubble has none. They change the speeds of four internal reaction wheels, making the observatory rotate the opposite way, while magnetic bars push against Earth’s field to bleed off excess momentum: a propellant-free steering system used since 1990.
2026-09-20 — spacedaily.com


NASA budgeted 200 kilograms of fuel for Roman’s first course correction, but the telescope used only 18. Combined with extra fuel loaded before launch and further expected savings, that could stretch its 10-year fuel plan to at least 22 years.
2026-09-19 — spacedaily.com


Citizen scientists revived NASA’s long-retired ISEE-3 probe in 2014 and fired its thrusters for the first time in 27 years, restoring its spin—but the larger burn meant to return it to an Earth–Sun observation point failed because the nitrogen needed to pressurize its fuel system had apparently run out.
2026-09-19 — spacedaily.com


During a close pass over comet 67P, Rosetta’s star trackers registered hundreds of sunlit dust grains as “false stars,” disorienting a spacecraft more than 400 million kilometres from Earth and forcing it into safe mode.
2026-09-18 — spacedaily.com


The 28.6-kilogram amateur-radio satellite AO-7 went silent in mid-1981 after its batteries shorted. Then, on 21 June 2002—21 years later—British radio ham Pat Gowen heard it transmitting again: one of its shorted batteries had somehow become an open circuit, allowing the spacecraft launched in November 1974 to run directly from its solar panels whenever conditions permit.
2026-09-17 — spacedaily.com


On 22 January 1997, Lottie Williams was walking through a park in Tulsa, Oklahoma, when a small scrap of blackened fibreglass tapped her shoulder and fell into the grass; it was identified as debris from a Delta II rocket stage launched nine months earlier, making her the only person known to have been struck by falling space junk.
2026-09-17 — spacedaily.com

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