Space
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SpaceX’s Starship rocket booster explodes after blast off – video
The two-stage rocket ship blasted off from the Elon Musk-owned company’s Starbase launch site near Boca Chica in Texas on…
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Interpreting North Korea’s Failed Satellite Launch
In this Q&A, Crisis Group expert Chris Green explains why it took this action and what can be done to…
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A Starship Post-mortem: Why the giant rocket failed and why it’s Elon Musk’s fault
Four minutes into the flight the rocket was deliberately destroyed at an altitude of about 35 km, with debris raining down about…
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Who is Artemis?
Artemis I will send a rocket without a crew on a monthlong journey around the Moon. Marie-Claire Beaulieu The Conversation…
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China’s Zhurong Mars rover finds hints landscape was shaped by water
China’s Zhurong Mars rover landed at Utopia Planitia – a large plain in the northern lowlands of the planet – back…
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NASA’s Mars helicopter takes flight, 1st for another planet
The triumph was hailed as a Wright Brothers moment. The mini 4-pound (1.8-kilogram) copter named Ingenuity, in fact, carried a…
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Japan takes the lead in cleaning up orbiting space junk
Japanese companies are testing innovative solutions to eradicate the threat. Julian Ryall Deutsche Welle Fragments of man-made debris are currently…
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Planetary pact: China and Russia to launch lunar space station
Though Moscow was once at the forefront of space travel – it sent the first man into space – its…
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Erdoğan unveils 10-year Turkish space programme
The Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has unveiled an ambitious 10-year space programme, a first for the country that highlights…
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Is the UK about to have liftoff in the global space industry?
In 1969, a British engineer was invited to the White House to meet President Nixon. Zahaan Bharmal The Guardian His…
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Japanese space officials eager to analyze asteroid samples
The capsule’s delivery by Japan’s Hayabusa2 spacecraft completes its six-year sample-return mission and opens the door for research into finding clues…
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We’ve mapped a million previously undiscovered galaxies beyond the Milky Way.
Astronomers have mapped about a million previously undiscovered galaxies beyond the Milky Way, in the most detailed survey of the…
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‘Rods from God’: Why Mach 5 Hypersonic Tugeston Bombs Were Never Dropped
Getting bundles of telephone pole-sized tungsten rods—1.7 time denser than lead—would require rockets of a massive scale that would have…
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NASA has announced that water is present on a sunlit surface of the moon for the first time
Researchers suggest that in some cases tiny patches of ice might exist in permanent shadows no bigger than a penny.…
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NASA works to head off losing too much Osiris-Rex asteroid dust
The team in charge of the probe is now working to quickly stow the remaining samples that would eventually be…
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Space weapons to counter China, Russia ‘coming’
To say that officials at the newly established US Space Command face a clear and present danger, is an understatement.…
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