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ISS Zvezda Cracks Deepen, Mars 600km Clay Find & ESA Lunar Ice

ISS Zvezda Cracks Deepen, Mars 600km Clay Find & ESA Lunar Ice

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(00:00:00) ISS Zvezda Cracks Deepen, Mars 600km Clay Find & ESA Lunar Ice
(00:01:10) ISS Five-Year Leak History
(00:01:35) Mars Clay Deposits 600km Scale
(00:02:40) California Aerospace 600M Investment
(00:03:20) ESA Prospect Lunar Ice Mission
(00:04:01) Key Watchpoints

Five astronauts were ordered into a SpaceX Dragon capsule last night as worsening air leaks in the ISS Zvezda module forced a two-hour emergency shelter. The crew returned safely, but the cracks did not go away — and NASA's own inspector general has flagged Zvezda's structural deterioration as the station's top safety risk for years. With no confirmed root cause and a module now over two decades old, the story behind the headline is whether Roscosmos can stabilise a critical system before it forces harder decisions about the station's future.

On Mars, orbital analysis of ESA's Rosalind Franklin rover landing site at Oxia Planum reveals clay mineral deposits stretching roughly 600 kilometres — far larger than previous estimates. The scale points to either a vast ancient ocean or large-scale groundwater flooding billions of years ago. The rover's two-metre drill is designed to reach organic material shielded from surface radiation, and this expanded clay signature makes the site considerably more scientifically compelling.

In commercial space, California Governor Newsom announced over $600 million in new state aerospace investment, with Apex Space, Voyager Technologies, and Mach Industries among the recipients. The state already hosts a third of the country's space-tech firms and 40 percent of US space patents.

Finally, ESA has confirmed a formal partnership with Intuitive Machines to deliver the Prospect lunar ice-drilling package to the Moon's polar regions on the IM-4 mission. Testing ice extraction and oxygen production on the lunar surface is one of the key steps toward sustainable crewed exploration — and that partnership is now locked in.

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