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1. Article · Aug 13, 2026 · Wanjiku Chebet Kanjumba, University of Florida

   Exploring the Moon will require rovers that can think for themselves – an upcoming NASA mission will test whether they can (opens the original)

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   NASA is planning to send three small rovers to the Moon with a single instruction: Work out among yourselves how to explore a patch of ground. The Cooperative Autonomous Distributed Robotic Exploration mission, or CADRE, will land on the side of the Moon facing Earth as part of NASA's IM-3 launch, planned for late 2026. These rovers will spend roughly two weeks mapping the terrain as a self-guided team. No joystick will control them, and no human will approve each turn. The rovers will elect a l

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2. Article · Jul 22, 2026 · Wanjiku Chebet Kanjumba, University of Florida

   Rescuing satellites is harder than it looks -- a growing space junk problem will make doing so more important (opens the original)

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   A commercial robotic spacecraft called LINK launched on an emergency mission to save NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, which has been slowly falling toward Earth, on July 3, 2026. Over the coming weeks, LINK, built by Katalyst Space Technologies, will try to grasp the telescope, then spend months raising it to a safer orbit. A commercial satellite is the key to a difficult mission that aims to rescue NASA's Swift telescope in orbit. For most of the space age, satellites have been disposable

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3. Article · Jul 22, 2026 · By Wanjiku Chebet Kanjumba, University of Florida

   Rescuing satellites is harder than it looks -- a growing space junk problem will make doing so more important - UPI.com (opens the original)

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   A commercial robotic spacecraft called LINK launched on an emergency mission to save NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, which has been slowly falling toward Earth, on July 3, 2026. Over the coming weeks, LINK, built by Katalyst Space Technologies, will try to grasp the telescope, then spend months raising it to a safer orbit. A commercial satellite is the key to a difficult mission that aims to rescue NASA's Swift telescope in orbit. For most of the space age, satellites have been disposable

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