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The US Coast Guard says it is investigating a Royal Caribbean cruise ship after a SpaceX rocket launch was aborted seconds before takeoff, report says

Elon Musk's SpaceX aborted a rocket launch on Sunday after a cruise liner sailed into the hazard ar…

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ISRO to chalk out plans to increase number of launches, satellite manufacturing

He also said the regulator for private space sector players Indian National Space Promotion and …

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Countdown begins for ISRO's historic rocket launch

The 43.5 metre tall and weighing 644 ton LVM3 M2 rocket is scheduled to blast off from the first…

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Liquid nitrogen leaked onto wetlands around SpaceX launch pad before rocket-test explosion, federal regulators confirm

An aerial video shows patches of wetland around SpaceX's launch pad that are snow-white from the li…

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An incredible new SpaceX video shows what it's like to be inside the nose cone of a Falcon 9 rocket launching Starlink internet satellites into orbit

After SpaceX's eighth Starlink internet satellite launch, the company released a video of its Falco…

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Pollution from SpaceX, Blue Origin, Virgin Galactic's rockets could harm human health as well as Earth's climate, study says

The study found that the concentration of nitrogen oxides released into the atmosphere was consider…

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Elon Musk says he's 'highly confident' that SpaceX's Starship rocket launches will cost less than $10 million within 2-3 years

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk predicted that one Starship rocket flight could cost a few million dollars in …

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A tropical storm may scrub SpaceX's history-making rocket launch of 2 astronauts on Wednesday

Elon Musk's rocket company is close to making history for itself and NASA, but weather forecasters …

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SpaceX posted a jaw-dropping video of its Starship prototype belly flopping, flipping, and exploding into smithereens

A robotic tracking camera caught the explosive yet wildly successful experimental flight of Starshi…

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India's human space flight mission may face slight delay as ISRO resumes launching rockets in November

India's human space flight mission Gaganyaan will be "slightly delayed" owing to the impact of the …

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Elon Musk and other competitors rushed to support Rocket Lab after the startup's founder apologized for losing 7 satellites in a launch failure

When Peter Beck of Rocket Lab said he was "incredibly sorry" for losing his customers' satellites, …

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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…

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Blue Origin passengers who are 1st married couple to fly to space on commercial rocket say they've got plans to fly with SpaceX and Virgin Galactic too

Sharon and Mark Hagle, 73, are launching to the edge of space on Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin rocket and…

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Virgin Orbit successfully dropped a rocket from a jumbo jet and ignited it, but its launch failed due to an 'anomaly'

Virgin Orbit's first rocket launch failed due to an unexplained problem after it had a "clean relea…

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SpaceX's new Starship rocket prototype soared 6 miles above Texas, but exploded during a landing attempt

The roughly 16-story rocket soared tens of thousands of feet above Boca Chica, Texas, but hit the g…

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A failed Russian rocket stage crashed to Earth in an uncontrolled reentry into the atmosphere over the Pacific

The rocket stage from Russia's Angara-A5 rocket was meant to stay in orbit for thousands of years, …

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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 …

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SpaceX is reportedly planning to launch a record 52 rockets in 2022 — and it's already on track to hit that goal

A former NASA astronaut warned SpaceX and the agency to be careful not to become victims of their o…

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