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Private Chinese rocket makes history with country’s first successful booster recovery on land
LandSpace’s ZhuQue-3, a privately developed Chinese rocket, successfully landed its first stage on August 19, marking China’s first successful land-based recovery of an orbital-class rocket booster. The achievement also makes LandSpace the first Chinese private company to recover an orbital-class booster on land using landing legs. This is the second time China has achieved a successful touchdown of an orbital-class rocket booster. The first took place on July 10 with a Long March 10B, which made a controlled landing into a net-like device affixed to a ship at sea. Video Courtesy: LandSpace
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Here's what NASA's Roman Space Telescope will do once it reaches space
How do you explain one of the most advanced space telescopes ever built without the science jargon? At NASA's Mission Preview News Conference on July 29, 2026, mission experts Shawn Domagal-Goldman, Julie McEnery, Jackie Townsend, and Jeremy Perkins did exactly that. Using simple but powerful analogies, they explained what makes the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope so extraordinary. They compared its view of the universe to seeing an entire forest instead of a single tree, likened its massive data output to music streaming, and described its coronagraph as spotting a firefly beside a floodlight—making some of astronomy's most complex concepts easy to understand. Launching on August 30, 2026, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will deliver breathtaking wide-field views of the cosmos while helping scientists investigate dark matter, dark energy, exoplanets, and the evolution of the universe. A new era of space exploration is just a few weeks away. Video edited using footage courtesy of NASA Goddard
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August 2026 skywatching guide: Every major celestial event to watch this month
From a total solar eclipse and the Perseid meteor shower to Saturn, a partial lunar eclipse, and stunning deep-sky objects, here's everything happening in the August 2026 night sky. Video Credit: NASA, AI-generated visuals (based on NASA references)
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The life-saving science behind NASA's orange and white spacesuits
When you think of a NASA spacesuit, the first image that comes to mind is probably either the iconic white EVA suit used during a spacewalk, or the bright orange suit worn by the Artemis II astronauts. But have you ever wondered why they're different? As it turns out, those colours are far more than a design choice. Every astronaut suit is built for a specific mission, and even the colour plays an important role in helping astronauts stay safe from launch all the way through their time in space. Stay tuned to Starlust for all you need to know about space exploration, astronomy and more.
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"Taking on a Padawan": NASA astronaut bids farewell to departing crewmate from ISS
NASA astronaut Anil Menon shared this view from the ISS window of the Soyuz MS-28 spacecraft drifting away after undocking on July 26 — carrying Chris Williams and two Roscosmos cosmonauts home after 241 days in space. "Godspeed Soyuz MC-28 crew. Goodbye Chris — taking on a Padawan!" Menon wrote. Video Credit: NASA/Anil Menon via X
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Watch: All 33 Raptor engines power Starship's Super Heavy booster on Flight 13
Powered by 33 methane-fueled Raptor engines, Starship's Super Heavy booster produced roughly 16 million pounds of thrust during liftoff of Flight 13 from Starbase, Texas, on July 24. Video Credit: SpaceX
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Watch: SpaceX Starship Flight 13 completes "softest splashdown" ever
SpaceX launched Starship Flight 13 from Starbase, Texas, deploying next-gen Starlink V3 satellites and testing an in-space Raptor relight — after two delays, on July 16 and July 23. Both stages completed controlled splashdowns. Video Credit: SpaceX
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Watch: SpaceX launches Starship Flight 13 after two delays
SpaceX launched Starship Flight 13 from Starbase, Texas, with Booster 20 and Ship 40 on a mission to deploy next-generation Starlink V3 satellites and test an in-space Raptor engine relight. The mission comes after two earlier delays—a last-second engine abort on July 16, when several Raptor engines failed to ignite, and a weather-related postponement on July 23. Video Credit: SpaceX
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NASA's Chandra creates a 25-year timelapse of an expanding supernova remnant
NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory combined data from five separate observations — spanning 2000 to 2025 — into a single timelapse showing Kepler's Supernova Remnant expanding over 25 years. Located about 17,000 light-years away, the remnant is what remains of a white dwarf star that exploded after exceeding its critical mass. Video Credit: NASA/CXC
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NASA's Psyche mission releases timelapse video of its Mars flyby
NASA's Psyche spacecraft flew by Mars on May 15, 2026, using the planet's gravity to boost its speed toward asteroid 16 Psyche, its ultimate destination. During the flyby, Psyche's imager captured a month-long time-lapse sequence of Mars — including windblown craters, the polar ice cap, and the Huygens crater — while also testing the instruments it will use to study the asteroid in 2029. Video Courtesy: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/True Story Films
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Watch: View of Earth from SpaceX Falcon 9's second stage
A camera aboard SpaceX Falcon 9's second stage captured this striking view of Earth during the July 21, 2026 launch of Northrop Grumman's MRV-1 satellite-servicing mission — a flight to geostationary transfer orbit that offered a far more distant, dramatic vantage point than SpaceX's typical Starlink missions. Video Credit: SpaceX
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MRV explained: Inside Northrop Grumman's new satellite-servicing spacecraft
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket has successfully launched Northrop Grumman's Mission Robotic Vehicle (MRV) from Cape Canaveral, marking the debut of a first-of-its-kind commercial satellite-servicing mission. Built to operate in geostationary orbit (GEO), the MRV is equipped with two advanced robotic arms capable of inspecting, relocating, upgrading and servicing operational satellites. The spacecraft will also deploy three Mission Extension Pods (MEPs), propulsion modules designed to extend a satellite's operational life by up to eight years. If successful, the mission could reduce satellite replacement costs and mark a major step toward routine in-orbit satellite servicing. Read more on Starlust: https://starlust.org/space-xs-falcon-9-launches-first-of-its-kind-northrop-grumman-mission-to-extend-satellite-lifespans/
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NASA begins stacking Artemis III solid rocket booster segments
Piece by piece, NASA is assembling the Space Launch System for Artemis III. The first booster aft segments are now in place, on their mobile launcher, bringing the Moon mission one step closer to launch in 2027 and laying the groundwork for future missions to Mars. Video Credit: NASA Watch this space for more updates on Artemis III