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NASA on Track for Future Missions with Initial Artemis II Assessments Space Debris

NASA on Track for Future Missions with Initial Artemis II Assessments

Following NASA’s Artemis II mission successfully splashing down on Earth, engineers started diving into detailed analysis of data to assess how key systems and subsystems on the Orion spacecraft, SLS (Space Launch System) rocket, and systems at the launch pad at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida performed. The…
bubmag
April 21, 2026
Pentagon officially ends OCX program, citing risk and delays Space Debris

Pentagon officially ends OCX program, citing risk and delays

GPS satellite illustration. Credit: L3Harris WASHINGTON — The Pentagon announced April 20 it has formally terminated the Next Generation Operational Control System, or OCX, ending a 15-year effort to modernize the ground system that operates the U.S. military’s Global Positioning System satellites. The decision was made April 17 by the…
bubmag
April 20, 2026
‘Super Mario Galaxy Movie’ With $747M+ WW Pushes Illumination-Nintendo Pic Franchise To $2B – Global Box Office Space Debris

‘Super Mario Galaxy Movie’ With $747M+ WW Pushes Illumination-Nintendo Pic Franchise To $2B – Global Box Office

The outer-space plumbers continue to reign supreme around the world with an $83.2M global weekend ($35M domestic, $48.2M overseas at 82 territories), taking The Super Mario Galaxy Movie ‘s global running cume to $747.4M ($355.2M domestic, $392.2M overseas). But the bigger deal is that the Illumination/Nintendo/Universal franchise through two pics…
bubmag
April 19, 2026
Blue Origin Launches and Recovers Booster, Orbit of AST Space Mobile Satellite Too Low. BB7 Lost Space Debris

Blue Origin Launches and Recovers Booster, Orbit of AST Space Mobile Satellite Too Low. BB7 Lost

Blue Origin’s New Glenn NG-3 mission launched successfully this morning (April 19, 2026) from Cape Canaveral, carrying AST SpaceMobile’s BlueBird 7 (Block 2 FM2) satellite. After the launch and booster recover, the mission continued for 90 minutes or so. UPDATE – ASTS admits the satellite is too low and cannot…
bubmag
April 19, 2026
Comer warns ‘something sinister’ may be behind deaths, disappearances of 11 nuclear, space-linked scientists Space Debris

Comer warns ‘something sinister’ may be behind deaths, disappearances of 11 nuclear, space-linked scientists

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., warned Sunday that "something sinister could be happening" after 11 scientists mainly tied to the U.S. nuclear and space research programs reportedly died or went missing under mysterious circumstances, raising urgent national security concerns. Comer…
bubmag
April 19, 2026
Giant BlueBird 7 mobile phone satellite will be deorbited after faulty Blue Origin launch Space Debris

Giant BlueBird 7 mobile phone satellite will be deorbited after faulty Blue Origin launch

Blue Origin, the space launch company founded by Jeff Bezos, just achieved a successful recovery of its first reused orbital-class rocket, but the payload it placed into space has ended up in the wrong location. The New Glenn rocket lifted off on its third-ever mission on Sunday (April 19), and…
bubmag
April 19, 2026