Europe cancels planned upgrades for Ariane 6 rocket
Arianespace hasn’t publicly disclosed the cost for an Ariane 6 launch.
Eric Berger
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Space
SpaceX’s orbital data centers would create a new category of e-waste
The yeetcycling math resembles asteroid mining in reverse.
Scott K. Johnson
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NASA calls off mission to rescue Swift gamma-ray observatory
Without a rescue, NASA’s Swift Observatory is expected to reenter the atmosphere later this year.
Stephen Clark
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The floodgates are open after another Chinese company lands a reusable rocket
“We will put the booster back into service for another flight as soon as possible.”
Stephen Clark
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Against all odds, SpaceX finally tugs Starship into port after 24 days at sea
“A team of SpaceX engineers is on their way to conduct additional analysis on the vehicle.”
Stephen Clark
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The United States is about to wake up to the threat from China’s space program
One big question: Will China assert territorial rights where its rover explores?
Eric Berger
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The Moon’s shadow raced across the heart of Spain, and I was there to see it
Here’s what it was like watching a total solar eclipse 90 minutes north of Madrid.
Stephen Clark
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Satellite operators are in panic mode due to a worsening launch crisis
What happens if the Falcon rockets stop flying?
Eric Berger
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Ukraine strikes major Russian rocket factory with cruise missiles
“Flamingo missiles were used. A good achievement.”
Eric Berger
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Policy experts: Europe stuck between “rock and a hard place” on launch
It turns out that the economics of rocket reuse are pretty, pretty good.
Eric Berger
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Rocket Report: Rocket Lab shows off its flexibility; Blue Origin’s two-pad plan
“We’ve never seen launch capacity so constrained.”
Eric Berger
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Virgin Galactic wants your help naming its new Delta class spaceship
Will it be the VSS… Horizon, Explorer, Ascend or Apeiron?
Robert Pearlman
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We’ve flown a radiation-blocking vest to the Moon and back, and it worked
Let’s shield the astronauts instead of the spacecraft.
Jacek Krywko
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One of China’s workhorse rockets just exploded in flight
If the failure involved the YF-100 engine, there are broader concerns for China’s space program.
Eric Berger
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The first self-driving vehicle on Mars has proven to be a smashing success
About 90 percent of the distance driven by Perseverance has been autonomous.
Eric Berger
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Blue Origin narrowing in on root cause of catastrophic rocket accident
“The anomaly originated at the main oxygen valve on one of the BE-4 engines.”
Eric Berger
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SpaceX spooks investors with debut earnings report
Shares slide in pre-market trading even as group says its quarterly revenues nearly doubled.
Financial Times
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Lego deploys Hubble Space Telescope as detailed desktop model
The orbiting observatory in minifigure scale.
Robert Pearlman
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SpaceX is set to acquire 130,000 acres of marshland in southern Louisiana
A Louisiana launch site would offer several significant advantages.
Eric Berger
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Here’s how engineers plan to save the satellite sent to save NASA’s Swift mission
“We believe that a capture of Swift, an attempted capture of Swift, is very much in the cards.”
Stephen Clark
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