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How South Australia is connecting its community to in-space manufacturing with Varda Space
Read more →: How South Australia is connecting its community to in-space manufacturing with Varda SpaceA small rocket launches from the Koonibba Test Range in South Australia. Image: Southern Launch Economic transformation: Each…
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It’s almost showtime for SpaceX’s massive Starship rocket
Read more →: It’s almost showtime for SpaceX’s massive Starship rocketSpaceX announced on Friday that the company is targeting “mid-November” for the second flight test of the Super…
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How many flights has Virgin Galactic flown in 2023?
Read more →: How many flights has Virgin Galactic flown in 2023?Number of flights: 7 (Tourism: 3, Research: 1, Test: 2) Flight rate: 40 days Total crew: 32 (VG…
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A historic Falcon 9 made a little more history Friday night
Read more →: A historic Falcon 9 made a little more history Friday nightCAPE CANAVERAL, Florida—In three-and-a-half years of service, one of SpaceX’s reusable Falcon 9 boosters stands apart from the…
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Dream Chaser is getting closer to flying
Read more →: Dream Chaser is getting closer to flyingTenacity getting buttoned up for transport The employees of Sierra Space, a spin off of Sierra Nevada Corporation’s…
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How long will Jeff Bezos continue to subsidize his New Shepard rocket?
Read more →: How long will Jeff Bezos continue to subsidize his New Shepard rocket?Virgin Galactic smoothly completed its sixth human spaceflight in six months on Thursday, continuing an impressive cadence of…
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SpaceX poised for ‘mid-November’ launch of second Starship test flight
Read more →: SpaceX poised for ‘mid-November’ launch of second Starship test flightAerial view of the fully stacked Starship vehicle at Starbase, Texas, on Sept. 6, 2023. Image: SpaceX. More…
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Juno discovers salts and organic compounds on Ganymede’s surface
Read more →: Juno discovers salts and organic compounds on Ganymede’s surfaceAfter a flyby of Jupiter’s largest moon, Ganymede, in 2021, Juno and a team of scientists have discovered…
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After leading NASA’s mission to Pluto, Alan Stern flies to space himself
Read more →: After leading NASA’s mission to Pluto, Alan Stern flies to space himselfIt has been fun to watch Virgin Galactic string together six flights to suborbital space this year. The…
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Senate Passes Orbits Act to Reduce Space Debris
Read more →: Senate Passes Orbits Act to Reduce Space DebrisThe Senate passed a bill this week to reduce space debris called the Orbits Act. The bill would…
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Daily Telescope: Lucy finds not one but two diamonds in the sky
Read more →: Daily Telescope: Lucy finds not one but two diamonds in the skyWelcome to the Daily Telescope. There is a little too much darkness in this world and not enough…
