Space News Mission Log — Satellite Launches, Orbital Events & Analysis
Daily space news, satellite launch reports, orbital debris analysis and weekly roundups — grounded in live tracking data from our network monitoring 37 published reports.
Urban Stargazing: The Milky Way Above Seoul
Discover the Milky Way's splendour over Seoul, captured with infrared techniques to pierce through city lights.
Crew-12 Returns as ISS Operations Continue
Crew-12 has returned to Earth, marking a successful mission. The ISS remains operational with ongoing activities.
Exploring the Vastness: A Universe Beyond Grains of Sand
The universe contains more stars than grains of sand on Earth, highlighting its immense scale and the mysteries it holds.
Unveiling the Eagle Nebula's Pillars in Infrared
The Hubble Space Telescope reveals the Eagle Nebula's Pillars of Creation in infrared, showcasing star formation amidst dense cosmic clouds.
Aqua: tracking Earth's water cycle since 2002
NASA's Aqua satellite brought clouds, rainfall, ocean temperatures and atmospheric moisture into a single observing mission, building a record of how water moves through Earth's climate system.
James Webb Space Telescope: Current Location and Orbit
The James Webb Space Telescope is positioned at the second Lagrange point (L2), approximately 1.5 million kilometres from Earth, providing a stable environment for deep space observations.
New Horizons: the probe that revealed Pluto
NASA’s New Horizons transformed Pluto from a distant point of light into a world of nitrogen glaciers and water-ice mountains. The spacecraft is now travelling outwards on an escape trajectory from the Solar System.
Sentinel-2: Europe's Copernicus imaging workhorse
Sentinel-2 turns repeated, precisely calibrated images of Earth's land into practical evidence about crops, forests, water and natural disasters.
A beacon in swirling dust: Webb reveals Messier 77’s core
A brilliant nucleus pierces the dusty spiral arms of Messier 77 in Webb’s infrared view, revealing how black-hole activity and star formation share a galaxy.
The Cosmic Origins of Our Atoms: A Stellar Journey
Discover how the atoms in your body were created in the hearts of ancient stars, linking us to the universe's grand history.
Exploring Arp 263: A Galactic Merger's Final Act
Arp 263, an irregular galaxy in Leo, offers a glimpse into the chaotic beauty of a galactic merger's final phase, captured by Webb's NIRCam.
Chandra X-ray Observatory: the universe in high energy
NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory reveals black holes, exploding stars and hot intergalactic gas through exceptionally sharp X-ray images, observing from an elongated orbit far above Earth.