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Time is running out for SpaceX to make a splash with second-gen Starship

The 404-foot-tall (123-meter) Starship rocket and Super Heavy booster stand on SpaceX's launch pad. In the foreground, there are...

SpaceX reveals why the last two Starships failed as another launch draws near

Engineers recreated the diffuser failure on the ground during the investigation, and then redesigned the part to better direct pressurized gas into the main fuel...

Trump orders cull of regulations governing commercial rocket launches

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Wednesday directing government agencies to "eliminate or expedite" environmental reviews for commercial launch and reentry licenses. The Federal...

Space Force officials take secrecy to new heights ahead of key rocket launch

The Vulcan rocket checks off several important boxes for the Space Force. First, it relies entirely on US-made rocket engines. The Atlas V rocket it...

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...

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