The trillion-dollar space race is hitting reality: Mars fades, the Moon takes centre stage and an industry once fuelled by hype is being forced to grow up fast – by politics, commercial pressure and the hard limits of the real world.
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Step into the spotlight at GLOC 2026! Connect with global space leaders, present your innovations, and engage with Africa’s dynamic space community. Secure your sponsorship or exhibition space now – limited opportunities available! #GLOC2026 #iafastro
Our Spring 2026 issue is about to be published.
Lot's of great space industry content and comment coming your way!
Here's a preview of the front cover - another creative masterpiece from our talented design team.
The International Space University has just launched the world’s first fully online Master’s degree in Space Research - a bold step toward making advanced space education globally accessible.
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Researchers at the University of Manchester have developed a new modelling approach that embeds collision risk into the earliest stages of Earth observation satellite design.
#spacedebris #ManchesterUniversity #sustainability
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Registration for GLOC2026 is now open.
Join the global space & climate community in Kigali, Rwanda, from 2-4 June 2026, as experts, researchers, policymakers come together to explore how space-based data supports climate resilience.
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NASA has updated its potential launch window for its delayed Artemis II Moon mission and is now targeting 6-11 March. It's a moving feast and further updates will follow. Photo by Jacques van Oene at Kennedy Space Center.
Beautiful shot this morning of the Artemis II stack as seen from the VAB at Kennedy Space Center by @roomspacejournal.bsky.social photo-journalist Jacques Van Oene. Go NASA!
NASA’s Artemis II Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft are seen backdropped by blue sky at KSC's Launch Complex 39B in Florida
🚀 NASA's moonbound Artemis II rocket is on its launch pad! The SLS vehicle and Orion spacecraft, with its European Service Module, rolled out from Kennedy Space Center's Vehicle Assembly Building and reached Launch Pad 39B on Saturday (pic: ESA/S.Corvaja).
go.nasa.gov/4qtbMDh @exploration.esa.int
There random covers. It's all about style, impact and telling a story...
A close-up view of the A23a iceberg.
📸 This week's #EarthFromSpace is a #Copernicus Sentinel-2 image of iceberg A23A, captured in December 2025 over the South Atlantic Ocean.
🔗 esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2026/01/Earth_from_Space_The_fate_of_a_giant
@esaearth.esa.int
A great advance review of #TheSentientOnes - an exciting new sci-fi thriller to be released on 6 November.
@authorbnugent.bsky.social
@ariadnegallardo.bsky.social
@tarynleejohnston.bsky.social
@markstewart2001.bsky.social
#booksky #author #scifi #review
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Just in from the printer – the exciting new issue of ROOM Space Journal!
Another Brexit curve ball - this time it's orbital...
My take from EU Space Forum in Brussels on what new EU Space Act might mean for UK space industry.
No room for "constructive ambiguity".
@chrisgrey.bsky.social
#EUSpaceAct #Brexit #UKspace #spacepolicy
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Solar storms are increasingly threatening our life on Earth
We live in the Sun’s atmosphere and space weather is closer than you think; solar storms can have serious impacts on our life on Earth
@cliftop.bsky.social @centralbylines.co.uk
Study shows that extreme events are becoming more frequent, longer-lasting and more severe.
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A prototype IVF incubator has been launched to test key functions in orbit, marking an important step toward realising ARTIS (Assisted Reproductive Technology In Space).
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Is the space age dream is turning toxic?
In my latest blog - how pollution from defunct satellites is threatening Earth’s atmosphere.
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#sustainability #environment #satellites
Soviet-era spacecraft meant to land on Venus in the 1970s is expected to make uncontrolled return to Earth, probably around 10 May.
The chance of it actually hitting someone or something is small but cannot be completely ruled out.
Watch out for falling debris!
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This is such a great launch photo!
ULA's Atlas V launches Amazon’s Project Kuiper satellites into orbit from the Florida coast (28 April).
It's part of Amazon’s initiative to deliver global broadband internet from space and will be a rival to Elon Musk's Starlink.
