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Finally, engineers have a clue that could help them save Voyager 1

Enlarge / Artist's illustration of the Voyager 1 spacecraft.Caltech/NASA-JPL It's been four months since NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft sent an intelligible signal...

SpaceX has a license to launch Starship—this time it might fly at dawn

Enlarge / SpaceX's third flight-ready Starship rocket underwent a countdown dress rehearsal earlier this month.SpaceX The Federal Aviation Administration said Wednesday it...

A hunk of junk from the International Space Station hurtles back to Earth

Enlarge / In March 2021, the International Space Station's robotic arm released a cargo pallet with nine expended batteries.NASA A bundle of...

Russia’s next-generation rocket is a decade old and still flying dummy payloads

Enlarge / Technicians assemble an Angara A5 rocket at the Vostochny Cosmodrome in Russia's Far East.Roscosmos By some measures, Russia's next-generation flagship...

SpaceX just showed us what every day could be like in spaceflight

Enlarge / A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket streaks into orbit Sunday night from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, ferrying a crew of four...

NASA cancels a multibillion-dollar satellite servicing demo mission

Enlarge / Artist's illustration of the OSAM-1 spacecraft (bottom) linking up with the Landsat 7 satellite (top) in orbit.NASA NASA has canceled...

The world’s most traveled crew transport spacecraft flies again

Enlarge / A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off with the Crew-8 mission, sending three NASA astronauts and one Russian cosmonaut on a six-month...

For Virgin Galactic, becoming profitable means a pause in flying to space

Enlarge / Virgin Galactic's VSS Unity rocket plane ignites its rocket motor moments after release from a jet-powered carrier aircraft high above New Mexico.Virgin...

Jeff Bezos’ New Glenn rocket finally makes an appearance on the launch pad

Enlarge / Dave Limp, Blue Origin's new CEO, and founder Jeff Bezos observe the New Glenn rocket on its launch pad Wednesday at Cape...

Test flights on tap for Space Perspective’s luxury high-altitude balloon

Enlarge / Space Perspective's first test capsule, Excelsior, has a diameter of approximately 16 feet (4.9 meters).Space Perspective Space Perspective could begin...

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