Space
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Space Force Triples Launch Contract Ceiling to $17 Billion, Pushing NSSL Past $30 Billion
WASHINGTON, July 21 — A $30 billion procurement for national security launches has set the stage for one…
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ZHR Forecast: Thirty Meteors an Hour Over Next Twenty-Four Hours
ISLAMABAD, July 21 — The zenithal hourly rate, or ZHR, is a standard astronomical measure that helps scientists…
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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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India’s First Private Orbital Rocket Vikram-1 Reaches Orbit on Debut Launch
HYDERABAD, July 17 — India’s first privately built orbital-class rocket is set to launch tomorrow, and global markets…
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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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Xona Space Systems Plans 258-Satellite GPS Alternative
SAN FRANCISCO, July 16 — The hum of construction and the glow of soldering irons fill the workspace…
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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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Xona Space Systems prepares six-satellite launch as a commercial rival to GPS
SAN FRANCISCO, July 16 — The bottom line for the nascent satellite-navigation industry is $19.5 million in venture…
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Bezos Says Blue Origin Will Likely Go Public Someday After $10 Billion Raise
SEATTLE, July 16 — On the floor of Blue Origin’s Kent facility, a New Glenn rocket stands in…
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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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SpaceX and Amazon, Worth a Combined $4.5 Trillion, Look Set to Collide
LOS ANGELES, July 15 — Two of the world’s most valuable companies are racing to wire the planet…
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SpaceX and Amazon are valued alike, but their revenues differ by $700 billion
CAPE CANAVERAL, July 15 — The race to control the skies above us is no longer just about…
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SpaceX IPO Filing Shows $1.94 Billion Quarterly Loss and Musk’s Tight Control
LOS ANGELES, July 15 — For a man who built his fortune on electric cars and rockets, Elon…
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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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FCC approves Reflect Orbital’s Earendil-1 sunlight mirror satellite over astronomers’ objections
MOSCOW, July 14 — A private American company is preparing to launch a satellite that will deploy a…
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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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Warwick team finds 25 faint debris objects in geosynchronous orbit
ISLAMABAD, July 14 — For millions of people around the world, the ability to make a phone call,…
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What Comes Next: Searching for More Complex Sugars in Space
ISLAMABAD, July 13 — The search for the chemical origins of life has moved deeper into space, with…
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Warwick-Led Team Finds 25 Faint Debris Fragments Missing From Public Catalogs
TUCSON, July 14 — A decades-old asteroid-hunting telescope has quietly exposed a blind spot in humanity’s ability to…
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NASA’s 2028 Moon Landing Target Looks Unlikely as SpaceX and Blue Origin Landers Lag
WASHINGTON, July 14 — The Artemis program, NASA’s ambitious push to return humans to the Moon, now faces…
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Blue Origin Seeks $10 Billion at $130 Billion Valuation, Its First Outside Funding
SEATTLE, July 14 — The man who reshaped global commerce now has his eyes fixed on the stars.…
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Raytheon Wins Up to $309.5 Million Space Force Contract to Digitize Eight Strategic Radars
COLORADO SPRINGS, July 14 — The United States Space Force, America’s newest military service born from a December…
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