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Blue Origin boss: Government should forget launch and focus on “exotic” missions
Artist's concept of Blue Ring, a propulsive spacecraft platform Blue Origin says it is developing…
China extends its reach into the Solar System with launch of asteroid mission
That's one reason why Tianwen-2's roundtrip journey to asteroid Kamoʻoalewa will last just two-and-a-half years.…
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SpaceX may have solved one problem, only to find more on latest Starship flight
SpaceX made some progress on another test flight of the world's most powerful rocket Tuesday,…
FAA: Airplanes should stay far away from SpaceX’s next Starship launch
The Federal Aviation Administration gave the green light Thursday for SpaceX to launch the next…
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Do these Buddhist gods hint at the purpose of China’s super-secret satellites?
Mission patches are a decades-old tradition in spaceflight. They can range from the figurative to…
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The top fell off Australia’s first orbital-class rocket, delaying its launch
This was unusual Payload fairing problems have caused a number of rocket failures, usually because…
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A privately developed Australian rocket is ready for a historic launch
Gilmour Space, a venture-backed startup based in Australia, is about to launch a small rocket…
After back-to-back failures, SpaceX tests its fixes on the next Starship
But that didn't solve the problem. Once again, Starship's engines cut off too early, and…
We finally know a little more about Amazon’s super-secret satellites
"Elon thinks we can do the job with cheaper and simpler satellites, sooner," a source…
Firefly’s rocket suffers one of the strangest launch failures we’ve ever seen
There are several European launchers in operation or development—Arianespace's Vega, Isar Aerospace's Spectrum, and Rocket…