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A Soviet-era spacecraft built to land on Venus is falling to Earth instead

Kosmos 482, a Soviet-era spacecraft shrouded in Cold War secrecy, will reenter the Earth's atmosphere in the next few days after misfiring on a journey...

The company with the world’s largest aircraft now has a hypersonic rocket plane

"Demonstrating the reuse of fully recoverable hypersonic test vehicles is an important milestone for MACH-TB," said George Rumford, director of the Test Resource Management Center,...

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 told Reuters at the time of Badyal's dismissal. Earlier in...

NASA’s Psyche spacecraft hits a speed bump on the way to a metal asteroid

An illustration depicts a NASA spacecraft approaching the metal-rich asteroid Psyche. Though there are no plans to mine Psyche,...

Weapons of war are launching from Cape Canaveral for the first time since 1988

The Pentagon has a long-standing policy of not publicizing hypersonic missile tests before they happen, except for safety notices for civilian airplanes and ships downrange....

Reusable rockets are here, so why is NASA paying more to launch stuff to space?

• 1998: Deep Space 1 — Delta II rocket — $86 million • 1999: Mars Polar Lander — Delta II rocket — $88 million •...

There’s a secret reason the Space Force is delaying the next Atlas V launch

It wouldn't have been surprising for SpaceX to get priority on the range schedule since it had already reserved the launch window with the Space...

Here are the reasons SpaceX won nearly all recent military launch contracts

"Our rocket has a unique niche within this marketplace," Bruno said. "There really are two kinds of missions from the rocket’s standpoint. There are ones...

A military satellite waiting to launch with ULA will now fly with SpaceX

For the second time in six months, SpaceX will deploy a US military satellite that was sitting in storage, waiting for a slot on United...

With new contracts, SpaceX will become the US military’s top launch provider

SpaceX will get 28 missions worth approximately $5.9 billion ULA will get 19 missions worth approximately $5.4 billion Blue Origin will get seven missions...

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