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Semiconductor manufacturing in India gets a boost with ISMC’s proposed $3 billion plant in Karnataka
India set out a $10 billion push to bring semiconductor chipset manufacturing in the country back i…
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Richard Branson's Virgin Orbit to go public in SPAC merger valuing the satellite launch company at $3.2 billion
Virgin Orbit in January took 10 small satellites to Earth's orbit for NASA in its first successful …
Carla Mozée
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Richard Branson's Virgin Orbit has spent $1 billion trying to reach to space — while a small New Zealand startup got to orbit for a fraction of that
CEO Peter Beck says Rocket Lab has spent about $180 million to develop the Electron launch vehicle,…
Dave Mosher
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Jeff Bezos' private spaceflight company has a major investor who is a direct competitor with SpaceX
In addition, the BE-4 engines will each generate 550,000 pounds of thrust - the propulsive force a …
Jessica Orwig
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Asteroid mining startup founded by ex-SpaceX and Virgin Orbit engineers books first test mission with SpaceX
AstroForge is scheduled to test its technology next year, using a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket to get int…
Tasmin Lockwood
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NASA's Artemis I Orion spaceship enters lunar orbit — a critical step toward sending astronauts to the moon for the first time since 1972
NASA is hinging its ambitions to send astronauts to the moon and Mars — along with $50 billion spen…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin is bidding on NASA's lucrative moon contract again after it lost to SpaceX last year
Last year, Blue Origin sued NASA, calling its decision to choose SpaceX as the sole winner of the c…
Grace Kay
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SpaceX launches 47 Starlink satellites as part of its ninth launch this year
Elon Musk's space venture SpaceX has successfully launched 47 Starlink satellites. The Starlink 4-9…
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Richard Branson is reportedly working on his first European SPAC after launching 2 companies through blank-check firms in the US
Sky News said Branson's business is working with bankers on the European SPAC, which could be annou…
Carla Mozée
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A sun-skimming spacecraft captured video of a massive plasma eruption on the solar surface for the first time
The sun's outbursts can send plasma and electrically charged particles careening toward Earth. This…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Here's what Chandrayaan 2 is looking for on the Moon
In a highly challenging space venture, The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is soft-landin…
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Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin passes 4 key milestones for its $172 million NASA contract to build a new space station
NASA awarded Blue Origin $130 million to build the Orbital Reef space station that will be a destin…
Ellyn Lapointe,Jessica Orwig,…
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This Legal Footnote Explains The High Stakes Of Elon Musk's Lawsuit Against The Air Force
Even with these launch cancellations and setbacks, the Air Force will still have little choice but …
Armin Rosen
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Elon Musk reportedly said SpaceX faces the 'risk of bankruptcy' from a lack of Starship engine progress
Elon Musk said in a company email obtained by CNBC that he was upset with the lack of progress on t…
Grace Kay
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Asteroid Mining Company To Reveal Plans For Hammering Into Space Rocks
Although a report prepared by the Keck Institute for Space Studies found that new technologies have…
Dina Spector
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Europe is setting an example on how to clean up outer space — using a harpoon
The program, led by University of Surrey’s Guglielmo Aglietti, on Friday shot a harpoon at a s…
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Goldman Sachs is scrapping a homegrown email app it once touted - and it's a sign the bank is moving away from building tech in house
Goldman's reversal is an example of how hard it can be for non-tech companies to develop big softwa…
Dakin Campbell
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SpaceX has launched a billionaire-funded crew of space tourists into orbit - the first civilian mission of its kind
SpaceX's Inspiration4 mission has carried a group of four amateur space travelers to Earth's orbit,…