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NASA's first Space Shuttle launch lost 16 heat shield tiles and damaged 148 more before it even left the ground, not from any failure, but from the shock wave of its own engines bouncing back off the launch pad - Space DailySpace Daily · Mon, 10 Aug 2026 05:30:00 GMTAI actually flying on spacecraft today is a narrow fix for one physical problem, not machine judgment: a Mars rover picks its own laser targets with 93 percent accuracy, and one satellite's entire first AI experiment was built by a single engineer in under two week - Space DailySpace Daily · Mon, 10 Aug 2026 03:30:00 GMTMars is no longer one grand mission: Perseverance has driven a marathon, sample return is still being redesigned, and NASA's Aeolus partnership shows how much Martian weather we still need to learn - Space DailySpace Daily · Mon, 10 Aug 2026 02:30:00 GMTA child who can see 250 stars today may see fewer than 100 from the same place at eighteen: 51,351 naked-eye observations found the night sky brightening far faster than satellites had measured - Space DailySpace Daily · Mon, 10 Aug 2026 00:30:00 GMTThe Mission Robotic Vehicle launched on July 21 with two seven-jointed arms meant to inspect, relocate and upgrade ageing satellites; after a year-long trip, it is meant to test whether spacecraft can become serviceable infrastructure - Space DailySpace Daily · Sun, 09 Aug 2026 21:45:00 GMTTitan is never the same distance from Earth twice: the gap can run from about 1.2 billion kilometres to nearly 1.65 billion depending on where both worlds sit in their orbits, stretching a signal's one-way trip from just over an hour to past ninety minutes - Space DailySpace Daily · Sun, 09 Aug 2026 18:30:00 GMTMercury is the Solar System’s smallest planet, but its metallic core fills about 85 per cent of its radius, leaving a rocky shell so thin that cooling has crumpled the surface into cliffs hundreds of kilometres long - Space DailySpace Daily · Sun, 09 Aug 2026 15:30:00 GMTVoyager 1 is down to two working science instruments, and the fix that just bought its twin, Voyager 2, another year of power is now being tested on a probe NASA says no longer behaves quite like its sibling - Space DailySpace Daily · Sun, 09 Aug 2026 14:20:22 GMT