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A top-secret Chinese spy satellite just launched on a supersized rocket

Enlarge / A Long March 5 rocket, the largest launcher in China's inventory, deployed a classified Chinese military satellite into orbit Friday.CASC ...

Blue Origin sure seems confident it will launch New Glenn in 2024

Enlarge / This picture, taken several months ago, shows different parts for Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket inside the company's manufacturing facility in Florida.Blue...

The US military’s spaceplane is about to fly again—it needs a bigger rocket

Enlarge / SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket stands on Launch Complex 39A in Florida, hours before its scheduled liftoff with the military's X-37B spaceplane.Trevor Mahlmann/Ars...

Hubble back in service after gyro scare—NASA still studying reboost options

Enlarge / The Hubble Space Telescope viewed from Space Shuttle Atlantis during a servicing mission in 2009.NASA The Hubble Space Telescope resumed...

Crossed wires led to high drama as NASA returned asteroid samples to Earth

Enlarge / The OSIRIS-REx sample return capsule, with its main parachute nearby, shortly after landing in Utah on September 24, 2023.Keegan Barber/NASA ...

NASA says SpaceX’s next Starship flight could test refueling tech

Enlarge / A crane is attached to one of several Starship test vehicles at SpaceX's Starbase facility in South Texas. This vehicle, called Ship...

Don’t count on NASA to return humans to the Moon in 2025 or 2026, GAO says

Enlarge / A crescent Earth rises over the horizon of the Moon in this view from NASA's Orion spacecraft on the unpiloted Artemis I...

A bitter pill: Amazon calls on rival SpaceX to launch Internet satellites

Enlarge / A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with a reused booster stage and payload fairing is seen rolling out to its launch pad in...

North Korea launched a satellite, then apparently blew up its booster

Enlarge / A television monitor at a train station in South Korea shows an image of the launch of North Korea's Chollima 1 rocket...

Starship brought the thunder as it climbed into space for the first time

Enlarge / SpaceX's Starship rocket took off from South Texas at 7:03 am CST (13:03 UTC) Saturday.SpaceX BOCA CHICA BEACH, Texas—SpaceX's Starship...

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