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WASHINGTON — Rocket Lab launched eight satellites for a German company that is expanding its constellation to detect and track wildfires. An Electron rocket lifted off from Pad B of Rocket Lab’s Launch Complex 1 in
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WASHINGTON — The U.S. Space Force is grappling with a shrinking budget even as the Pentagon acknowledges the growing importance of space in modern military operations, the service’s top general said March 26. “We are literally
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WASHINGTON — The U.S. Space Force has certified United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan Centaur rocket, allowing that vehicle to conduct national security missions. The Space Force’s Space Systems Command announced March 26 it completed the long-awaited certification
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HELSINKI — China launched a new Tianlian data tracking and relay communications satellite Wednesday, adding to the country’s on-orbit infrastructure in the geostationary belt. A Long March 3B lifted off at 11:55 a.m. Eastern (1555 UTC)
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WASHINGTON — The U.S. military is preparing to award several high-stakes contracts for commercial satellite communications services this fall, signaling a growing reliance on private-sector capabilities for battlefield connectivity and global coverage. Among the key deals
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SAN FRANCISCO – French antenna manufacturer Anywaves announced plans March 27 to begin producing satellite antennas and radio-frequency payloads in-house, a prelude to establishing a U.S. facility. To serve international customers, “we need to be more
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Updated 11 a.m. Eastern with Northrop Grumman statement. WASHINGTON — NASA and Northrop Grumman will not launch a Cygnus cargo mission to the International Space Station in June as previously planned after discovering the spacecraft is
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Updated 11:30 a.m. Eastern with details from a media briefing. WASHINGTON — The first launch of Isar Aerospace’ Spectrum rocket failed March 30 when the vehicle lost attitude control seconds after liftoff and plummeted back to
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The first flight of Isar Aerospace’s Spectrum rocket ended in dramatic fashion today. Germany-based Isar Aerospace attempted to launch the first orbital rocket from European soil on Sunday morning (March 30). The company’s Spectrum rocket lifted
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The first flight of Isar Aerospace’s Spectrum rocket ended in dramatic fashion today. Germany-based Isar Aerospace attempted to launch the first orbital rocket from European soil on Sunday morning (March 30). The company’s Spectrum rocket lifted
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The hardware that will fly a historic private astronaut mission has made it to the launch pad. On Saturday (March 29), SpaceX posted photos on X of the Fram2 mission’s Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon
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It seems like everyone on Earth — and beyond — is getting into the podcast business these days. The International Space Station National Laboratory just launched “Between a Rocket and a Hard Space,” a brand-new podcast
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New research from NASA and the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) in Colorado measured Arctic sea ice cover on March 22, during what should’ve been its annual peak. In conclusion, the agency reported seeing
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The European Space Agency has kicked off a competition to support the development of new launch vehicles and boost Europe’s access to space. The agency issued the call for proposals for the European Launcher Challenge (ELC)
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Astronauts will attempt to grow mushrooms in space for the first time during SpaceX’s upcoming Fram2 mission. Launching aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket as early as Monday (March 31), the Fram2 mission will be the
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In this week’s episode of Space Minds, Sara Alvarado, Executive Director for the Students for the Exploration and Development of Space, known as SEDS, sits down with host David Ariosto. In the conversation, Alvarado, shares insights
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TAMPA, Fla. — Europe has contracted Thales Alenia Space to develop a digital twin of agricultural systems, combining satellite data and crop modeling to support sustainable and climate-resilient farming practices across the continent. The space manufacturing
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HELSINKI — China is charting a long-term deep space strategy centered on planetary habitability and the search for extraterrestrial life, according to a newly revealed mission roadmap. A slide titled “habitability and search for extraterrestrial life
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WASHINGTON — The technology and consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton unveiled a concept for a mega-constellation of satellites designed to fulfill the Trump administration’s “Golden Dome” vision for a comprehensive missile-defense shield to protect the United
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Tracking fast-moving and maneuverable hypersonic weapons has been described as spotting a slightly brighter candle in a sea of candles. Difficult, but not impossible. With China and Russia advancing hypersonic missile technology, Pentagon leaders are turning
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SAN FRANCISCO – Miles Space has demonstrated a water-fueled electric thruster with unusually lower power demands. “We have a water-vapor-based plasma thruster that works at power levels so low, people don’t believe it,” Miles Space CEO
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HELSINKI — China launched the new TJS-16 classified satellite on Saturday aboard a Long March 7A rocket, continuing the opaque series of experimental missions. A Long March 7A rocket lifted off at 12:05 p.m. Eastern (1605
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WASHINGTON — The Department of the Air Force is considering a shift in its space acquisition strategy that could replace planned military satellite purchases from multiple defense contractors with SpaceX’s Starshield satellites, according to comments made
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WASHINGTON — The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has denied a protest from a company over a contract that is part of the Office of Space Commerce’s space traffic coordination system. In a decision publicly released March
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Right now, the remains of three private spacecraft rest on the moon, with one more lost in Earth orbit. And that is incredible. First came Israel’s Beresheet, which crashed on the lunar surface in 2019. Next
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A new mission from SpaceX will soon send humans over Earth’s poles for the first time ever. Launching no earlier than Monday (March 31), the privately funded, four-day Fram2 mission has quite a few tasks to
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The View From On High – Live From the International Space Station – YouTube Watch On On Episode 154 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik talk with Space TV director Liam Kennedy
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This morning (March 29), during a partial solar eclipse, the moon bit off more than it could chew, taking a dramatic ‘bite’ out of the sun. From crisp crescent-shaped suns to the rare ‘devil’s horns’ and
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The date is April 1, 2471 B.C., and a total solar eclipse has forced night to fall during the day in Egypt. The sun has morphed into a lifeless black circle surrounded by a milky halo,
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SpaceX’s sprawling Starlink constellation has reshaped the satellite broadband landscape, pressuring rivals to keep up or change the game entirely. With more than 7,000 satellites in low Earth orbit and counting, Starlink’s aggressive growth ambitions have
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TAMPA, Fla. — Geopolitical shifts are driving government interest in Telesat’s low Earth orbit plans, according to the Canadian operator, validating its move beyond geostationary satellites as LEO frontrunner Starlink erodes its legacy broadband business. Rising
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WASHINGTON — Airbus Defence and Space will build the landing platform for the European Space Agency’s ExoMars rover, replacing a critical component originally to be provided by Russia. Airbus announced late March 28 (Eastern time) that
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The first human spaceflight ever to cruise over Earth’s polar regions, the privately funded Fram2 mission from SpaceX, is set to carry four astronauts on a roughly four-day orbital mission. Fram2 will launch no earlier than
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An elliptical galaxy (at center) is seen being wrapped by a spiral galaxy forming a single “Einstein ring,” but in reality is the result of a cosmic lens overlapping the two distant celestial structures. (Image credit:
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Astronomers have discovered that the flattened clouds of gas and dust around stars — nurseries that give birth to planets — are generally smaller than previously thought. Some are so small, in fact, they would neatly
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The sun has somewhat surprised forecasters today with a dramatic X-class solar flare from a newly emerging sunspot region. The intense solar flare originated from sunspot region AR4046 and was accompanied by a spectacular filament eruption
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It’s safe to say Neill Blomkamp’s District 9 (2009) became an instant modern sci-fi classic, which explains why both moviegoers and Hollywood studios had massive expectations for the filmmaker’s follow-up flicks: Elysium (2013) and Chappie (2015).
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Doom is the daddy of first-person shooters and one of the most influential games of all time, so we battled through hell and put together these lists of the Doom games in order, both by chronological
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A partial solar eclipse is coming this weekend, but weather could be an issue for many hoping to get a glimpse of the moon “taking a bite” out of the sun. Skywatchers across much of New
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Zena Cardman didn’t have to wait too long to get a seat on another spacecraft after being removed from SpaceX’s Crew-9 mission last year. The NASA astronaut is one of the four members of SpaceX’s Crew-11
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