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Experts Say Starship’s Heat Shield Is the Obstacle to Rapid Reuse, and NASA Has Not Helped
HAWTHORNE, Calif., July 27, 2026 — On the test stands in McGregor, Texas, engineers fire up another sequence:…
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Former NASA Engineer Calls Starship Heat Shield a Dead End for Rapid Reuse
The Thermal Protection Bottleneck BOCA CHICA, Texas, July 27 — Starship, the fully reusable super-heavy-lift launch vehicle SpaceX…
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Musk Calls Starship Heat Shield Problem Solved After Flight 13 Test
HAWTHORNE, July 27 — SpaceX’s Starship is designed to fly three times a day, per vehicle. But right…
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NASA-Linked Group Wants Next-Generation Telescopes to Hunt for Alien Technology
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., July 26 — The hunt for Dyson spheres, those hypothetical megastructures that would wrap a star…
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Scientists at MIT Workshop Weigh How to Spot Dyson Spheres Around Black Holes
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — In a closed workshop this past November, a small group of the world’s top astrophysicists…
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High Pressure Heat Domes Trap Hot Air And Amplify Extreme Temperatures
WASHINGTON, July 25 — A sprawling, stagnant high-pressure system that meteorologists call a heat dome has become a…
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NASA Puts Early $2.1 Billion Price Tag on Nuclear-Powered Mars Spacecraft
WASHINGTON, July 21 – NASA’s plan to test a nuclear thermal rocket engine for deep-space travel has hit…
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Satellites Dodge Debris as ESA Warns Orbit Cleanup Lags
LONDON, July 16 — The space around our planet is getting crowded, and not in a good way.…
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NASA’s Psyche Spacecraft Aces Mars Flyby En Route to Metal Asteroid
LOS ANGELES, June 6, 2026 — infopulsetoday.com — NASA’s Psyche spacecraft has used Mars as a gravitational slingshot…
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NASA Asks Industry for Nuclear Thermal Propulsion Reactor Designs for Mars Missions
HUNTSVILLE, July 21 — The old saying about rocket science just got a nuclear upgrade. Engineers at NASA’s…
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From Mercury to Dragon: Launch abort systems save astronaut lives
WASHINGTON, July 21 — The launch escape system, a piece of engineering that separates crew from catastrophe, is…
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From SSD to SSC: 60-Year Evolution of U.S. Space Systems Command
LOS ANGELES, July 21 — On a sprawling campus in El Segundo, past the security gates of Los…
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US Space Force’s NSSL Program: 1994 Origins to Military Space Access
WASHINGTON, July 21 — The National Security Space Launch program, the Pentagon’s primary mechanism for putting the nation’s…
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Ion Thrusters From Dawn to the X3: How They Work and Where They Fall Short
WASHINGTON, July 20 — The ion thruster, a form of electric propulsion for spacecraft, has quietly become a…
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Artemis III Will Dock Orion With Two Commercial Lunar Landers in Earth Orbit
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida, July 20 — The next human footsteps on the Moon are scheduled for a launch…
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SpaceX Rocket Stage Set to Hit Moon Aug. 5 as Scientists Prepare to Watch
WASHINGTON, July 20 — What began as a routine launch seven years ago now ends with a quiet…
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ESO study warns satellite fleets in the millions could cripple ground-based astronomy
WASHINGTON, July 16 — By nightfall tonight, a new pinprick of light will begin tracking across the American…
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Building a Hypercube: From Point to Tesseract in Four Steps
LONDON, July 16 — A unit hypercube of dimension four is called a tesseract. That much has been…
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SpaceX’s Controlled Deorbit Burns Satellites in Atmosphere
LOS ANGELES, July 7 — The sky above the Pacific is, by nightfall, a graveyard for satellites. On…
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Megaconstellations Push Satellites to Process Data in Orbit, Frontgrade CTO Says
CAPE CANAVERAL, July 16 — The night sky is getting crowded. For the families in rural communities who…
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Key Researchers and Evidence Behind the Cannabis Lung Cancer Warning
WASHINGTON, July 15 — The largest U.S. study on marijuana and lung cancer has been reported by Medical…
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Von Braun’s 1969 plan to send humans to Mars and why it was dropped
HUNTSVILLE, July 15 — Against this backdrop of renewed transatlantic debate over the legacy of Nazi-era scientists who…
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Starlink made 148,696 collision-avoidance maneuvers in six months as orbital debris grows
VANDENBERG SPACE FORCE BASE, Calif., July 14 — The figure that matters: 47,000. That is the number of…
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Warwick team finds 25 uncatalogued debris tracks in geosynchronous orbit
TUCSON, July 14 — A newly discovered swarm of space debris in geosynchronous orbit poses a collision risk…
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