A big restructuring of NASA’s plans to land astronauts on the moon is adding missions and speeding up the timeline, but some hardware might have to be cut loose in the process.
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“Life might actually survive being ejected from one planet and moving to another.”
Japan’s new HTV-X cargo spacecraft departed the International Space Station today (March 6) after a four-month stay.
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Rocket Lab launched a mystery satellite for a confidential commercial customer this evening (March 5). It was the company’s 83rd liftoff to date.
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This stunning satellite image of Ouarzazate, Morocco, was taken by Europe’s Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission.
Vast has raised $500 million in new funding, which the California startup will put toward its goal of getting private space stations up and running in Earth orbit.
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Scientists gathered in a conference earlier this year in an effort to solve the issue of satellite streaks ruining a powerful new Earth-based observatory’s data.
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Tests conducted with tardigrades suggest that there is something in Martian dirt that dramatically reduces biological activity.
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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying 29 Starlink satellites launched from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on Wednesday (March 4), creating a sky show for early risers.
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Russia has fixed Site 31 at Baikonur Cosmodrome, the only pad supporting the nation’s human spaceflight missions. It had been out of commission since late November.
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