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…
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Pentagon contract figures show ULA’s Vulcan rocket is getting more expensive
A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket with NASA’s Psyche spacecraft launches from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in…
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Starship will soon fly over towns and cities, but will dodge the biggest ones
Some time soon, perhaps next year, SpaceX will attempt to fly one of its enormous Starship…
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GOP may finally succeed in unrelenting quest to kill two NASA climate satellites
Before satellite measurements, researchers relied on estimates and data from a smattering of air and ground-based…
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Time is running out for SpaceX to make a splash with second-gen Starship
STARBASE, Texas—A beehive of aerospace technicians, construction workers, and spaceflight fans descended on South Texas this…
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After recent tests, China appears likely to beat the United States back to the Moon
Ars: Taking the longer view, is the United States or China better positioned (i.e., US spending…
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Rocket Report: NASA finally working on depots, Air Force tests new ICBM
How to get to the Moon … The report estimates that canceling the SLS rocket, its…
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“It’s a heist”: Senator calls out Texas for trying to steal shuttle from Smithsonian
Citing research by NASA and the Smithsonian, Durbin said that the total was closer to $305…
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During a town hall Wednesday, NASA officials on stage looked like hostages
The four people at the helm of America’s space agency held a town hall meeting with…
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Psyche keeps its date with an asteroid, but now it’s running in backup mode
The spacecraft, built by Maxar Space Systems, will operate its electric thrusters for the equivalent of…
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SpaceX’s next Starship just blew up on its test stand in South Texas
The Trump administration’s proposed budget for NASA would cancel the Artemis program’s ultra-expensive Space Launch System…
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China extends its reach into the Solar System with launch of asteroid mission
That’s one reason why Tianwen-2’s roundtrip journey to asteroid Kamoʻoalewa will last just two-and-a-half years. Japan’s…
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SpaceX may have solved one problem, only to find more on latest Starship flight
SpaceX made some progress on another test flight of the world’s most powerful rocket Tuesday, finally…
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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…
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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…
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NASA scrambles to cut ISS activity due to budget issues
Canceling the tracker layer upgrade to the spectrometer would also not be catastrophic. The addition of…
