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Rivals object to SpaceX’s Starship plans in Florida—who’s interfering with whom?

“That is ongoing currently,” Chatman said. “ working in close partnership with SpaceX and Blue Origin on the LOX/methane combination and the explicit equivalency to...

With another record broken, the world’s busiest spaceport keeps getting busier

Starship is designed to be fully and rapidly reusable, eventually enabling multiple flights per day. But that’s still a long way off, and it’s unknown...

Intuitive Machines—known for its Moon landers—will become a military contractor

The company’s success in just reaching the Moon’s surface has put it in position to become one of NASA’s leading lunar contractors. NASA has awarded...

Here’s how orbital dynamics wizardry helped save NASA’s next Mars mission

Blue Origin scrubbed Sunday’s launch attempt due to poor weather, a cruise ship in restricted waters near the launch site, and ground system issues. The...

The government shutdown is starting to have cosmic consequences

The federal government shutdown, now in its 38th day, prompted the Federal Aviation Administration to issue a temporary emergency order Thursday prohibiting commercial rocket launches...

A commercial space station startup now has a foothold in space

The integration tasks still include installing Haven-1’s environmental control and life support elements, power, data, and thermal control systems, thrusters, fuel tanks, and internal crew...

Space station astronauts eager to open “golden treasure box” from Japan

And without the ISS, Russia’s human spaceflight program might be dead today. Ins and outs of HTV-X Yui used the outpost’s robotic arm to grapple...

SpaceX finally got exactly what it needed from Starship V2

The answer: Apparently quite good. While SpaceX has brought Starships back to Earth in one piece several times, this was the first time the ship...

Putin OKs plan to turn Russian spacecraft into flying billboards

These are tough times for Russia's civilian space program. In the last few years, Russia has cut back on the number of Soyuz crew missions...

One NASA science mission saved from Trump’s cuts, but others still in limbo

Another mission the White House wanted to cancel was THEMIS, a pair of spacecraft orbiting the Moon to map the lunar magnetic field. The lead...

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