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Space Force official: Commercial satellites can do a lot more than we thought

"So, we're off working now with that program office to go start off a more commercial line," Purdy said. "And when I say commercial in...

Do these Buddhist gods hint at the purpose of China’s super-secret satellites?

Mission patches are a decades-old tradition in spaceflight. They can range from the figurative to the abstract, prompting valuable insights or feeding confusion. Some are...

The top fell off Australia’s first orbital-class rocket, delaying its launch

This was unusual Payload fairing problems have caused a number of rocket failures, usually because they don't jettison during launch, or only partially deploy, leaving...

After back-to-back failures, SpaceX tests its fixes on the next Starship

But that didn't solve the problem. Once again, Starship's engines cut off too early, and the rocket broke apart before falling to Earth. SpaceX said...

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 •...

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