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On July 18, 2026, Skyroot Aerospace's Vikram-1 became the first privately developed Indian rocket to reach orbit from Sriharikota after a 35-minute hold — the visible result of six years of reforms that opened orbital launch to private builders alongside ISRO (opens the original)
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Vikram-1 is circling Earth after leaving ISRO’s First Launch Pad in fire and smoke over Sriharikota on July 18, 2026. ISRO recorded the liftoff at 12:05:30 p.m. India Standard Time; Reuters reported that about 15 minutes later the privately developed rocket had reached a 450-kilometre orbit. The launch made Skyroot Aerospace the first private Indian company to reach orbit from Indian soil. The flight was also widely reported as making India the third country, after the United States and China, w
In early 1962, weeks before John Glenn's orbital flight, a NASA mathematician named Katherine Johnson was asked to recompute by hand what the new IBM 7090 had already calculated, because Glenn had told mission planners he would not fly unless she personally verified the machine's numbers on paper (opens the original)
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In the days before John Glenn climbed into the Friendship 7 capsule on 20 February 1962, he made an unusual request of the flight planners at Langley. The new IBM 7090 mainframes had produced the trajectory numbers for his three-orbit flight — go/no-go points, retrofire timing, splashdown coordinates. Glenn wanted them recomputed by hand. Specifically, he wanted them recomputed by Katherine Johnson, a mathematician in the West Area Computing unit. According to widely reported accounts, Glenn ins
On July 16, 2026, a Falcon 9 carried 21 more satellites into orbit for the Pentagon's first operational low Earth orbit data network, pushing the constellation to half its planned size, even as the optical laser mesh that is supposed to let those satellites talk to one another remains dark and unpro (opens the original)
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Sixty-three military data-relay satellites now circle the Earth for the Pentagon’s newest space network — half of the planned constellation — and the optical laser mesh that is supposed to let them pass data to one another at nearly the speed of light has still not been switched on. A SpaceX Falcon 9 added the latest 21 on July 16, lifting off from Vandenberg Space Force Base and restarting a deployment that had been frozen for nine months while engineers worked through hardware and software fau
In November 1970, a Soviet rover the size of a bathtub rolled off the Luna 17 lander and crawled across the Sea of Rains at 100 metres per hour, driven by five men in a bunker near Simferopol who had never seen the Moon and faced a 2.5-second delay between command and the wheels responding (opens the original)
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On 17 November 1970, a Soviet spacecraft called Luna 17 touched down on the western edge of Mare Imbrium, the dark lava plain that Renaissance astronomers named the Sea of Rains. A pair of ramps unfolded from the lander like the sides of a shallow boat. Down them rolled a squat, eight-wheeled machine roughly the size of a bathtub, weighing 756 kilograms, with a hinged lid on its back that opened to the sun like a clamshell. It was called Lunokhod 1, and it was the first vehicle in history to dri
Space lawyers have a name for satellites claimed on paper years before a single one launches: they call them paper satellites, and the earliest filing quietly locks out everyone who comes later (opens the original)
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The International Telecommunication Union in Geneva keeps a ledger of who owns what slice of the sky, and in that ledger sit thousands of satellites that do not exist. They have names, orbital slots, frequency bands, coordination filings, and coverage maps. They have no metal. Radio engineers and space lawyers call them paper satellites, and the earliest filing — sometimes made a decade before any hardware is bent — quietly locks out every operator who tries to come later. The system works on a
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