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China begins launching a megaconstellation, and it sounds a lot like Starlink

Enlarge / A Long March 6A rocket launches the first 18 Internet satellites for China's Qianfan, or Thousand Sails, broadband network.VCG via Getty Images...

Boeing’s Starliner has cost at least twice as much as SpaceX’s Crew Dragon

Enlarge / A Starliner spacecraft departs Boeing's spacecraft processing facility before the program's first orbital test flight in 2019. Boeing announced another...

With a landmark launch, the Pentagon is finally free of Russian rocket engines

Enlarge / Liftoff of ULA's Atlas V rocket on the US Space Force's USSF-51 mission.United Launch Alliance United Launch Alliance delivered a...

NASA nears decision on what to do with Boeing’s troubled Starliner spacecraft

Enlarge / Boeing's Strainer spacecraft is seen docked at the International Space Station in this picture taken July 3.NASA The astronauts who...

Rocket delivered to launch site for first human flight to the Moon since 1972

EnlargeNASA/Isaac Watson The central piece of NASA's second Space Launch System rocket arrived at Kennedy Space Center in Florida this week. Agency...

“Not a bluff”—NASA’s budget would shut down long-lived Chandra telescope

Enlarge / Artist's illustration of the Chandra X-ray Observatory.NASA/MSFC NASA launched the Chandra X-ray Observatory 25 years ago this week, opening a...

A mid-September test flight of Vulcan could permit a military launch this year

Enlarge / A top-down view of United Launch Alliance's first Vulcan rocket before its liftoff in January.United Launch Alliance United Launch Alliance...

Armada to Apophis—scientists recycle old ideas for rare asteroid encounter

Enlarge / This artist's concept shows the possible appearance of ESA's RAMSES spacecraft, which will release two small CubeSats for additional observations at Apophis.https://www.esa.int/Space_Safety/Planetary_Defence/Introducing_Ramses_ESA_s_mission_to_asteroid_Apophis...

With Falcon 9 grounded, SpaceX test-fires booster for next Starship flight

Enlarge / A drone shot looking down on SpaceX's Super Heavy booster during a test-firing of its 33 Raptor engines Monday. SpaceX ...

NATO allies pledge $1 billion to promote sharing of space-based intel

Enlarge / Heads of state pose for a group photo at an event Tuesday celebrating the 75th anniversary of NATO.Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images ...

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