It’s been a big week for humanoid robots with a first-ever humanoid to directly connect to a low-Earth orbit satellite from one firm and plans announced to launch a robot into space by another. It seems like the robot space race is on – and China is wi…
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A new study warns that crowded internet satellite constellations like Starlink may push low Earth orbit toward a collision cascade, threatening global communication and navigation systems.
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The mighty Starship rocket could take its 12th test flight as early as March, according SpaceX chief Elon Musk. In a post on X on Monday, Musk shared a photo of the massive rocket in an earlier flight, along with the comment, “Starship launch in 6 week…
This is the El Segundo, California-based startup’s second raise in less than a year.
The International Space Station (ISS) is now orbiting Earth at a record altitude of 262 miles (422 km). It was deliberately nudged to a higher position just recently by a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft. Such a maneuver is necessary to keep the station safely…
The launch date had been up in the air after the rocket’s booster stage suffered an explosion during testing in November.
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As NASA gears up to send four astronauts on a crewed flight around the moon in the imminent Artemis II mission, Axiom Space is carefully preparing its AxEMU spacesuit for the highly anticipated endeavor that will follow. Artemis III, which NASA is targ…
Started by an engineer who worked on the space shuttle program, and at Blue Origin, Space Beyond has a spot on a 2027 Falcon 9 flight.