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With Trump’s cutbacks, crew heads for ISS unsure of when they’ll come back

The next four-person team to live and work aboard the International Space Station departed from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Friday, taking aim...

The first company to complete a fully successful lunar landing is going public

The financial services firm Charles Schwab reported last month that IPOs are on the comeback across multiple sectors of the market. "After a long dry...

Starlink kept me connected to the Internet without fail—until Thursday

A rare global interruption in the Starlink satellite Internet network knocked subscribers offline for more than two hours on Thursday, the longest widespread outage since...

Nearly 3,000 people are leaving NASA, and this director is one of them

You can add another name to the thousands of employees leaving NASA as the Trump administration primes the space agency for a 25 percent budget...

Pentagon may put SpaceX at the center of a sensor-to-shooter targeting network

The possibilities include exploiting automation, artificial intelligence, and machine learning to sense, target, and strike an enemy vehicle—a truck, tank, airplane, ship, or missile—nearly instantaneously....

NASA tested a new SLS booster that may never fly, and the end of it blew off

Unlike the RS-25 firing at Stennis, NASA chose to broadcast the booster test. Everything appeared to go well until 1 minute and 40 seconds into...

Psyche keeps its date with an asteroid, but now it’s running in backup mode

The spacecraft, built by Maxar Space Systems, will operate its electric thrusters for the equivalent of three months between now and November to keep the...

SpaceX’s next Starship just blew up on its test stand in South Texas

SpaceX's next Starship rocket exploded during a ground test in South Texas late Wednesday, dealing another blow to a program already struggling to overcome three...

Companies may soon pay a fee for their rockets to share the skies with airplanes

Assuming Falcon 9s continue to launch Starlink satellites in 2033, the fees would rise to approximately $56,000 per launch. SpaceX may have switched over all Starlink...

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. Japan's Hayabusa 2 asteroid sample return mission lasted six years...

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