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U.S. military investing in reentry vehicles for space-to-Earth cargo delivery

Two California-based companies, Inversion Space and Outpost Space, have secured more than $100 million in defense and private investments under…

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Voyager 1 Team Accomplishes Tricky Thruster Swap

5 min readVoyager 1 Team Accomplishes Tricky Thruster Swap A model of NASA’s Voyager spacecraft. The twin Voyagers have been…

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A Stellar Flyby Jumbled Up the Outer Solar System

An ancient passerby may have visited the Sun and inadvertently helped shape the Solar System into what it is today.…

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Legendary actor and ‘Star Wars” voice of Darth Vader, James Earl Jones dies at 93

An obituary for legendary actor James Earl Jones.

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Interlune reveals details of quest to bring home lunar resources

SAN FRANCISCO – Without context, Interlune’s plan to extract Helium-3 from lunar regolith to fulfill terrestrial demand sounds improbable. Even…

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Why space is the next frontier to accelerate medical research

Early Tuesday morning, Polaris Dawn flew through the atmosphere, taking its four crewmembers to the highest altitude humans have experienced…

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Chang’e-6 orbiter turns up at Sun-Earth Lagrange point after moon sampling mission

HELSINKI — The orbiter for China’s Chang’e-6 lunar far side sample return mission is now at the second Sun-Earth Lagrange…

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Sols 4297-4299: This Way to Tungsten Hills

Curiosity Navigation Curiosity Home Mission Overview Where is Curiosity? Mission Updates Science Overview Instruments Highlights Exploration Goals News and Features…

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BepiColombo’s New Images of Mercury are Cool

The ESA/JAXA BepiColombo spacecraft made another flyby of its eventual target, Mercury. This is one of a series of Mercury…

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Europa Clipper passes pre-launch review

A multibillion-dollar NASA mission to a potentially habitable moon of Jupiter has been cleared to begin final preparations for an…

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