SKY NIGHTLYSPACE AND ASTRONOMY NEWS
Monday, October 5, 2026
SkyNightly Oct 05, 2026 (SPX)
Planet orbits Tanager-2 hyperspectral satellite with Google compute testbed and 18 SuperDoves

Planet Labs PBC (NYSE: PL) has launched 20 satellites on a single rideshare flight: the first demonstration spacecraft for Google'...

SkyNightly Oct 05, 2026 (SPX)
MEGATRON simulations link Webb views of early galaxies to chemistry of ancient Milky Way stars

Simulations of the early Universe led by the University of Bath indicate that the interplay between starlight, gas and newly forme...

SkyNightly Oct 05, 2026 (SPX)
Lunar polar water too scarce to sustain a city of one million study finds

A city of one million people at the lunar poles would exhaust the Moon's water ice in just over a century, even under the most gen...

SolarCell Oct 05, 2026 (SPX)
Victorian train delay blamed on solar storm redated to 1848 by archive study

A train delay at Exeter long cited as possibly the earliest recorded case of space weather disrupting technology most likely happe...

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SkyNightly MOON Oct 05, 2026 (SPX)
Lunar dust control moves from lab to Moon as crewed landings near

Engineers preparing for long stays on the Moon now have flight data showing that electric fields can clear lunar dust from hardware, but NASA technology planners still rank dust mi...

SkyNightly SPACE TRAVEL Oct 05, 2026 (SPX)
Juice bends course toward Jupiter with Earth flyby that used little reserved propellant

The European Space Agency's Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) flew past Earth on 28 September, using the planet's gravity to change its route to Jupiter while consuming very littl...

SkyNightly MOON Oct 05, 2026 (SPX)
Four new findings frame water, dust, shelter and bone risks for long stays on the Moon

Four pieces of research and one NASA selection published between Sept. 14 and Oct. 1, 2026 each address a different limit on how long people can live on the Moon. Read together, th...

SkyNightly EARTH OBSERVATION Oct 05, 2026 (SPX)
EarthCARE lidar profiles Anak Krakatau ash plume and helps forecasters confirm its altitude

The European Space Agency's EarthCARE satellite captured vertical profiles of the plume from the Anak Krakatau eruption in early September, and forecasters at the Darwin Volcanic A...

RoboDaily AEROSPACE Oct 05, 2026 (SPX)
US Army and Sikorsky agree flexible Black Hawk production deal starting with 16 aircraft

Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin company (NYSE: LMT), and the U.S. Army have reached a production agreement for Black Hawk helicopters that lets the Army add aircraft as requirements em...

BeyondLEO MICROSAT BLITZ Oct 05, 2026 (SPX)
Unseenlabs adds Gen 1 and Gen 2 radio frequency satellites to reach 25 in orbit

Unseenlabs has launched two more radio frequency (RF) detection satellites, the Gen 1 nanosatellite BRO-23 and the Gen 2 microsatellite BRO-32, bringing its constellation to 25 sat...

BeyondLEO Oct 05, 2026 (SPX)
Science Tokyo flies foldable phased array that corrects membrane warping in orbit

Researchers at Institute of Science Tokyo have operated a deployable phased-array transmitter in orbit that el...

BeyondLEO Oct 05, 2026 (SPX)
MIT class report lays out five predictions for founders and investors in the space economy

A class of 16 students at MIT has produced a 100-page industry report on aerospace entrepreneurship that sets ...

BeyondLEO Oct 05, 2026 (SPX)
Game tree method plans fuel-minimum inspection sequences around GEO satellites

A team led by Meng Yunhe of the School of Artificial Intelligence at Sun Yat-sen University has proposed a met...

RoboDaily Oct 05, 2026 (SPX)
Ataraxos AI beats top Stratego players using far less training than earlier systems

An AI system developed by researchers from MIT, Carnegie Mellon University, New York University and Stanford U...