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NASA wants SLS rocket boosters for 6 more Artemis missions
Washington, June 30 (IANS) NASA is taking steps towards building Space Launch System (SLS) solid ro…
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SpaceX's Texas test pad experienced an unexpected explosion, flames, while testing a Starship rocket booster prototype
SpaceX was testing a rocket booster in south Texas on Monday when it unexpectedly spewed flames, re…
Lloyd Lee,Morgan McFall-Johns…
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Rocket Lab will soon attempt its first-ever recovery of a rocket booster — a SpaceX-like capability that could save the company millions per launch
Peter Beck, Rocket Lab's founder and CEO, hopes the planned test on November 15 will help the compa…
Dave Mosher
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Rocket Lab is about to recover a used rocket booster for the first time. Watch the company launch its SpaceX-inspired mission live online.
The 'Return to Sender' mission is a bid to recover expensive aerospace hardware, a move that could …
Dave Mosher
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Watch SpaceX fire up one of the world's biggest rocket boosters, Super Heavy, for the first time ahead of Starship's planned orbital launch
Starship, SpaceX's mega-rocket system, is made of two parts - a ship and a Super Heavy booster, des…
Kate Duffy
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L&T delivers rocket booster for Indian human space flight
"The hardware, a booster segment, will be used in the heavy rocket for launching the country's f…
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SpaceX successfully launched more Starlink internet satellites, but lost a rocket booster in the process.
The rocket booster was supposed to land on a ship waiting in the Atlantic Ocean.
Annabelle Williams
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Mystery wreckage in Malaysia, Indonesia, and Philippines is probably fallen Chinese rocket parts, space-debris experts say
China's rocket booster fell to Earth uncontrolled, and new photos convinced space-debris experts th…
Paola Rosa-Aquino,Morgan McFa…
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Mystery solved: NASA confirmed the space object that just zipped past Earth is a 1960s rocket booster
Earth's gravity briefly captured the old Centaur booster, leftover from a failed moon mission. It's…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Elon Musk says SpaceX pulled off an amazing feat with one of its rockets - and it may yield clues about the company's next moves
For its GovSat-1 mission, though, SpaceX chose to ditch the booster in the Atlantic Ocean, even tho…
Dave Mosher
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SpaceX launches Falcon 9 rocket booster for a record-breaking 9th time
SpaceX propels Falcon 9 booster for the ninth time, delivering to orbit a payload of Starlink satel…
Zahra Tayeb
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SpaceX tried to land a 16-story rocket on the ground, but it plunged into the sea. These dramatic videos show what happened.
As is now customary for SpaceX, the company also tried to land the biggest and most expensive part …
Dave Mosher
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NASA just fired up the most powerful rocket booster ever built — a key part of its Space Launch System to return humans to the moon
NASA hopes to fly the full Space Launch System in 2021, then send astronauts to the moon in 2024 as…
Dave Mosher,Morgan McFall-Joh…
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Elon Musk has revealed new photos of the world's most powerful rocket - but he says it may explode
As a demonstration, Musk plans to launch his red 2008 Tesla roadster on the rocket. The goal? Stuff…
Dave Mosher
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SpaceX has launched and landed another used rocket, saving what could be millions of dollars
"People don't realize that, for small countries and small companies like us, without SpaceX, there …
Dave Mosher
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SpaceX may be about to dramatically cut the cost of launching stuff into orbit
Each Falcon 9 rocket launch costs a customer about $62 million. SpaceX spends nearly $37 million to…
Dave Mosher
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'Right in the bullseye': SpaceX just pulled off a revolutionary rocket launch
Marcus Payer, the global communications director for SES (the telecommunications company behind the…
Dave Mosher
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SpaceX is about to try something 'potentially revolutionary' in the history of space travel
However, SES - a Luxembourg-based telecommunications company and longtime customer of SpaceX - acti…
Dave Mosher
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SpaceX is about to try a 'potentially revolutionary' rocket launch - here's how to watch it live
Marcus Payer, the global communications director for SES (the telecommunications company behind the…