SpaceWeekly News Summary February 24 – March 3, 2026

🌙 Artemis II Recovery Training at Sea Off the coast of California, NASA’s Artemis Landing and…

Work ongoing to restore contact with Proba-3’s Coronagraph

Enabling & Support 06/03/2026 53 views 1 likes An anomaly onboard the Proba-3 mission’s Coronagraph spacecraft…

New AI Hub to empower space-enabled connectivity

Agency 06/03/2026 98 views 3 likes A new European Space Agency facility that will use artificial…

Why Yuri Gagarin wasn’t the first in space – and who beat him to it

Were these the first people to reach space? Heritage Image Partnership Ltd /Alamy If you were…

Earth from Space: Dhaka, Bangladesh

These two views from Copernicus Sentinel-2 reveal the landscape transformation in the area around Dhaka, the…

Earth from Space: Dhaka, Bangladesh

These two views from Copernicus Sentinel-2 reveal the landscape transformation in the area around Dhaka, the…

ESA – James Webb Space Telescope spots faint asteroid 2024 YR4

The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope successfully observed the extremely faint near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4 (circled…

Through the Cupola: Sophie Adenot photographs Earth from orbit

Sophie Adenot takes photographs of Earth from inside the Cupola aboard the International Space Station. Floating in microgravity,…

JWST observations eliminate lunar impact probability of asteroid 2024 YR4 in 2032

Asteroid 2024 YR4 will safely pass the Moon on December 22, 2032, after new observations obtained…

Preparing first Ariane 6 with four boosters and liftoff

Timelapse showing the steps to build the most powerful version of Europe’s Ariane 6 rocket on…

Total Lunar Eclipse – NASA

A total lunar eclipse rises over New Orleans, home of NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility, in the…