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NASA Extended a Solar Sail in Orbit on August 29, 2024
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In a show of how far things have come in a few short years, the FAA has grounded SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket after one failed during a powered landing attempt on August 28, 2024 after the successful launch of 21 Starlink satellites. It's the first unsuc
Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket and RSS First Step capsule will launch 6 people to suborbital space on Aug. 29. Here's when and where.
SpaceX hasn't announced a new target date, but it has ruled out tries on Wednesday (Aug. 28) and Thursday (Aug. 29).
NASA has become a laughing stock. The once highly respected organization has tumbled off its pedestal, just like so many other so-called "experts" these days.
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The historic mission is now scheduled to lift off early Wednesday morning (Aug. 28).
The data from NASA's Insight lander allowed the scientists to estimate that the amount of deep groundwater could cover the entire planet to a depth of between 1 and 2 kilometers, or about a mile.
Boeing's spacecraft will return without people on board, the US space agency said during a Saturday news conference announcing its decision, in which it said that it was too risky to bring two astronauts back to Earth in Boeing's troubled new cap
AstroForge announced it has raised $40 million in a Series A funding round led by Nova Threshold, including investments from 776, Initialized, Caladan, YC, Uncorrelated Ventures, and Jed McCaleb. The funding brought AstroForge's total capital to $5
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The Saturday announcement is expected to include NASA's plan to return its two Boeing Starliner astronauts to Earth.
While Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin struggles to get its rocket off the ground, Elon Musk's SpaceX continues to dominate the space race with the most rocket launches and satellite deployments to low-Earth orbit worldwide.
Two Upper stages of Rockets at the Blue Origin New Glenn Factory were damaged in the last few weeks. These incidents are only now being reported.
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"If we don't improve our pace of progress, I'm definitely going to be dead before we go to Mars," said Elon Musk at the Satellite 2020 conference in Washington, D.C., according to a report from the Los Angeles Times.