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Jeff Bezos and Blue Origin launched a rocket that could make way for space-tourism flights this year
Update (12:35 p.m. ET): Blue Origin tweeted that it completed “what looks to be a wholly successful mission” after launching the New Shepard rocket and landing the system’s space capsule, called “RSS First Step.” You can watch a replay of the company’s launch webcast below. → Read More
SpaceX posted a jaw-dropping video of its Starship prototype belly flopping, flipping, and exploding into smithereens
When SpaceX launched an experimental Starship rocket into the skies above southeastern Texas on Wednesday, the rocket company streamed stunning live video of the feat to the world. → Read More
Virgin Galactic's postponing its first human test flight out of Spaceport America due to COVID-19 restrictions in New Mexico
Virgin Galactic announced Monday that it’s postponing a pivotal crewed spaceflight that it planned to launch in mid-November due to new COVID-19 restrictions in New Mexico. → Read More
Rocket Lab will soon attempt its first-ever recovery of a rocket booster — a SpaceX-like capability that could save the company millions per launch
Rocket Lab is about to attempt its first-ever recovery of a rocket booster that’s flown a payload to space and fallen back to Earth. → Read More
A Japanese astronaut is in talks to join SpaceX's artist-filled Starship mission around the moon
SpaceX aims to slingshot a small group of people around the moon inside Starship, the company’s forthcoming Mars spacecraft, sometime in the next few years. → Read More
There's a spacecraft graveyard in the middle of the ocean. Here's what's down there.
* Large satellites, space stations, and other objects can pose a threat when they fall to the ground. * As a result, many nations de-orbit old spacecraft over the most remote place on Earth, called Point Nemo. * This ‘spacecraft cemetery’ is about 2,250km away from any piece of land and home to hundreds of dead satellites. * Space agencies and companies are concerned about space junk and working… → Read More
The International Space Station has sprung 'a small air leak,' so a NASA astronaut and 2 cosmonauts are hunkering down to help find and repair it
The International Space Station, an orbiting laboratory the size of a football field, is not perfectly sealed and always leaking a bit of air. → Read More
Before-and-after images from space reveal the devastation in Beirut caused by 2,750 tons of exploding fertiliser
In the port of Beirut, a warehouse that once held confiscated fertiliser has been replaced by a water-filled crater. → Read More
The Beirut explosion created a huge mushroom cloud and visible blast wave, but nuclear weapons experts say it wasn't an atomic bomb. Here's why.
When an enormous explosion created a mushroom cloud over Beirut, killing dozens of people and injuring thousands more, online commentators and conspiracy theorists quickly jumped to a frightening claim: A nuclear bomb had gone off in Lebanon’s capital city. But as state officials say, and contrary to those fast-spreading rumours, the explosion was almost certainly not caused by a nuclear weapon. → Read More
Virgin Galactic just revealed a new supersonic passenger jet planned with Rolls-Royce, which used to make Concorde jet engines
Not long after Virgin Galactic unveiled the interior design of its rocket-powered SpaceShipTwo, built to fly tourists beyond the edge of space and back, the company revealed plans for a foray into high-speed passenger travel. → Read More
Amazon just won a huge FCC approval to launch 3,236 Kuiper internet satellites — a $10 billion project that would compete with SpaceX's emerging Starlink network
Amazon, founded by Jeff Bezos in 1995, just claimed a major victory by getting regulatory approval to create Kuiper, a planned fleet or constellation of 3,236 of internet-beaming satellites. → Read More
Elon Musk says SpaceX will try launching a full-size Starship prototype 'later this week,' and the rocket may fly 150 meters high
Anyone who said grain silos can’t fly may be in for a surprise later this week. → Read More
Virgin Galactic and Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin may soon be rocketing NASA scientists to the edge of space
Astronauts, stand aside: NASA is booting up a program to fly other types of employees, primarily scientists, in vehicles that can touch the edge of space. → Read More
A new spaceship-on-a-balloon startup wants to float you high enough to see Earth's curvature and the darkness of space for roughly $125,000 per ticket
If you’re looking for a life-altering adventure, have more than $US100,000 to spare, and are willing to wait a few years, a new startup called Space Perspective may have the ticket you. → Read More
Elon Musk: 'SpaceX is building floating, superheavy-class spaceports' for its Starship rocket to reach the moon, Mars, and fly passengers around Earth
It’s no secret that SpaceX, founded by Elon Musk in 2002, wants to launch and land its next-generation Starship rocket system over water. → Read More
The US didn't send the first Black person into space — the Soviet Union did with the launch of Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez, an Afro-Cuban man who cleared the way for others to follow
On the evening of September 18, 1980, a towering rocket pushed a cramped spacecraft with two people inside toward space. → Read More
NASA just picked the aerospace company Astrobotic to land the first US moon rover in 48 years — a robot that will hunt for ice
NASA is partnering with rocket company Astrobotic to send a new water-hunting rover to the moon’s unexplored south pole. → Read More
An incredible new SpaceX video shows what it's like to be inside the nose cone of a Falcon 9 rocket launching Starlink internet satellites into orbit
SpaceX on June 3 launched a batch of 60 internet-beaming Starlink satellites into orbit, helping the rocket company work toward establishing a space-based internet service possibly by the year’s end. → Read More
NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley just gave SpaceX's new spacesuits a '5-star review'
SpaceX launched its first human passengers, NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley, into orbit on Saturday. They were wearing new spacesuits – the first time the company’s suits were tested by humans in space. → Read More
Virgin Orbit successfully dropped a rocket from a jumbo jet and ignited it, but its launch failed due to an 'anomaly'
After postponing its long-awaited rocket launch by a day, Virgin Orbit’s LauncherOne rocket had a successful release from a jumbo jet. → Read More