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European satellite plunges back to Earth in first-of-its-kind assisted re-entry

Enlarge / Artist's illustration showing the orbital tracks of the European Space Agency's Aeolus satellite.ESA/ATG medialab The European Space Agency deftly guided...

SpaceX teases another application for Starship

Enlarge / Artist's illustration of a Starship vehicle in low-Earth orbit. You've probably heard about SpaceX's plans to use its giant new...

Amazon is getting ready to launch a lot of broadband satellites

Enlarge / Artist's illustration of Amazon's Kuiper satellite processing facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center.Amazon Within a few years, Amazon hopes to...

NASA starts building ice-hunting Moon rover

Enlarge / Artist's concept of the VIPER rover working in lunar darkness.NASA/Daniel Rutter The search for ice at the Moon’s poles has...

For the first time in 51 years, NASA is training astronauts to fly to the Moon

Enlarge / Astronauts Victor Glover, Christina Koch, Reid Wiseman, and Jeremy Hansen are joined by an instructor (background) on the first day of Artemis...

Viasat’s new broadband satellite could be a total loss

Enlarge / This artist's illustration of the ViaSat-3 Americas satellites shows the spacecraft as it would appear with its large reflector antenna fully deployed.Viasat...

NASA decides not to launch two already-built asteroid probes

Enlarge / An artist's illustration of NASA's two Janus spacecraft as they would have appeared in space.Lockheed Martin Two small spacecraft should...

In-space manufacturing startup aces pharma experiment in orbit

Enlarge / Varda Space's first "Winnebago" spacecraft, called W-Series 1, before its launch June 12.Rocket Lab The co-founder of California-based startup Varda...

India, a growing space power, is forging closer ties with NASA

Enlarge / Taranjit Sandhu, India's ambassador to the United States, signs the Artemis Accords in Washington on June 21. NASA Administrator Bill Nelson looks...

SpaceX launches groundbreaking European dark energy mission

Enlarge / SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket soars through the sky over Cape Canaveral with Europe's Euclid space telescope.Stephen Clark/Ars Technica A European...

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