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20 Starlink satellites rained down on Earth yesterday; turbulent space weather doomed mission recovery
SpaceX faced a setback in its Starlink project as 20 satellites were lost due to a malfunction duri…
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Elon Musk says he wants the new Tesla Roadster to be able to hover 'without, you know, killing people'
Tesla CEO Elon Musk said on Joe Rogan's podcast that he wanted the next Roadster to be able to hove…
Isobel Asher Hamilton
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See a CGI rendering of the upcoming Tesla Roadster speed to 60 mph with use of 'rocket thrusters'
Elon Musk has claimed the Tesla Roadster will have a "SpaceX option package" that would include abo…
Kristen Lee
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Elon Musk says SpaceX will launch its Starship mega-rocket to orbit for the first time this year
SpaceX's Starship rocket is stacked atop its 23-story Super Heavy booster at the company's Boca Chi…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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NASA launches DART probe on a head-on collision course with an asteroid
NASA is testing a method it might one day use to save Earth from a city-killing asteroid. Ramming a…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Somewhere on Earth, it could rain rocket parts this weekend as a runaway Chinese spacecraft breaks up in the atmosphere
China's space-station rocket will most likely land in the ocean, but its path around Earth also tak…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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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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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,…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Watch SpaceX launch 4 space tourists into Earth's orbit
The Inspiration4 crew members have never been to space. They've only trained for five months. Their…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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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…
Dave Mosher
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Russia has docked its new science module to the International Space Station, after 14 years of delays
Russia's Nauka module is 14 years late and had technical issues once it launched. But the new scien…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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SpaceX may launch a winged Starship rocket prototype more than 40,000 feet above Texas this afternoon
Several YouTube broadcasters are on the ground in Boca Chica, Texas, to stream live video of SpaceX…
Dave Mosher
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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 …
Dave Mosher
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SpaceX just launched - and exploded - an experimental Starship rocket in Texas. The test nevertheless propels Elon Musk's vision of interplanetary travel closer to reality.
Starship is designed to be fully and rapidly reusable, slash the cost of reaching space thousandfol…
Dave Mosher,Morgan McFall-Joh…
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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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Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin just launched NASA's new moon-landing technologies into space
NASA gave Blue Origin $3 million to test technology that may make it possible to land on parts of t…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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China just launched an ambitious Mars mission that could be its first to reach the red planet — and make it just the third nation to explore the Martian surface
The Tianwen-1 orbiter, lander, and rover mission successfully launched on a Long March 5 rocket Thu…
Dave Mosher
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MUSK MAKES HISTORY: SpaceX just launched 2 people into orbit for the first time, kicking off the rocket company's most important mission since its founding 18 years ago
The launch won't be a success until NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley reach orbit, about …
Morgan McFall-Johnsen,Dave Mo…
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If SpaceX's rocket fails, an advanced emergency escape system for the spaceship could save the lives of astronauts onboard
When SpaceX and NASA tested the emergency system, Elon Musk said "it went as well as one could poss…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen,Dave Mo…
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Static test of first stage solid motor of India's mini rocket SSLV unsuccessful, says sources in ISRO
It was supposed to be tested for a total duration of about 110 seconds, officials said. "S…