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Trump Pens Executive Order Setting 2028 Moon Landing Like It Means Anything
Outside of asking the NASA Administrator to reform the agency's acquisition process, the executive order is effectively meaningless.
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Starlink Almost Had An In-Orbit Collision With A Chinese-Launched Satellite, And It's Only Getting Worse From Here
In space terms, they basically high-fived. It could have been so much worse.
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Space Force Uses Magic: The Gathering-Style Cards To Announce The War Names For Its Satellites
You've really got to see the cards to believe them.
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Tom Cruise's Space Movie Reportedly Died Because He Refused To Beg Trump For Permission To Shoot It In Space
We are still getting a "Days of Thunder" sequel, so at least there's that.
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Satellite Constellations May Ruin Up To 96% Of Astronomy Pictures Even From Telescopes In Space
NASA's report, published in Nature, predicts that around 40% of all Hubble images will have at least one satellite streak in them.
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Congress Proposes A New Space Agency, The National Institute For Space Research
This bill is a good first step at a course correction, but at the end of the day, a race can only be won if you choose to win it.
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Controversial Scientist Avi Loeb Is Lashing Out At NASA And Other Researchers As 3I/ATLAS Zooms Through Solar System
Scientists who, studying the available data, have concluded that 3I/ATLAS is, to paraphrase, a comet doing comet things.
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NASA Scales Back Missions With Boeing's Starliner After Last Year's Astronaut Stranding
Despite it all, the Starliner capsule pushes onwards. It ought to be putting astronauts on the ISS again in the next few years.
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At The Edge Of Our Solar System, NASA's Voyager 1 Found A 'Wall Of Fire'
Voyager 1 and 2 traveled billions of miles to reach the heliopause, showing how the Sun’s magnetic influence marks the boundary of our solar system.
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China Sets Launch Date To Replace Debris-Damaged Spacecraft In Orbit
Three taikonauts have been stranded on the Tiangong space station for the past five days.
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Blue Origin's New Glenn Rocket Completes First Mission, Begins Direct Competition With SpaceX
The mission involved delivering a real (not test) payload into low-Earth orbit and then landing its first-stage rocket on a drone boat.
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So It Turns Out Most Satellites Don't Encrypt Your Data, And Anyone Can Listen In
That is, in technical terms, very bad.
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Catching Asteroids In A Bag Could Be The New Panning For Gold
TransAstra already has a dozen ground-based telescopes searching for mining-suitable asteroids.
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Scientists Are Now Bickering About Whether 3I/ATLAS Exploded When It Zoomed By The Sun
Alien spacecraft, weird comet, or something else?
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Google Is Considering Putting AI Data Centers Into Space
Google's parent company Alphabet has already put the robots on your streets with Waymo, but that clearly wasn't ambitious enough.
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China Delays Spacecraft Return Indefinitely Over Debris Damage Fears
The three taikonauts will remain in space without a set alternative return date while the agency assesses the situation.
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Sean Duffy Might Have Leaked A Billionaire Private Astronaut's Plan In Desperate Bid To Save His Job At NASA
The leak appeared to be an attempt to derail any attempt to renominate Isaacman, allowing Duffy to continue as interim administrator at a minimum.
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Mysterious 3I/ATLAS Interstellar Object Continues To Do Weird Stuff And Encourage Wild Speculation
The interstellar object named 3I/ATLAS is continuing its journey through the Solar System.
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NASA Has Been Implementing Huge Budget Cuts That Congress Might Not Actually Make
It's hard to see exactly what the goal is here; one might argue that it seems to be chaos for chaos' sake.
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NASA Will Re-Open Contract For Moon Lander As Starship Falls Behind Schedule
The Artemis III mission is scheduled for a 2027 launch. Starship currently seems unlikely to meet that timeframe.
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SpaceX Has Now Sent 10,000 Starlink Satellites Into Space
The Starlink constellation now accounts for two-thirds of all working satellites.
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UFO Obsessives Will Be Disappointed By New Theory That Says Aliens Probably Don't Have Wildly Advanced Technology
Close Encounters Of The Meh Kind.
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United Airlines Pilot Thinks Space Debris Smashed His Plane's Windshield At 36,000 Feet
A mysterious object struck the windshield of the airline's Boeing 737 Max over Utah, showering the cockpit with bits of glass.
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Starlink's Military Twin Is Stepping On Civilian Satellite Control
This was all discovered quite by accident by an amateur satellite tracker.
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SpaceX Settles Lawsuit From Cards Against Humanity Over Dumping Space Garbage On Its Land That You Paid For
SpaceX "did the legal equivalent of throwing dust in our eyes and kicking us in the balls." That must have been some discovery session.
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Fifth Time's The Charm For SpaceX Starship With Last Second-Gen Test Success
For a while, it looked like the only thing SpaceX's second-gen Starship could be counted on to do was explode, pointlessly.
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Layoffs Come For NASA As The Jet Propulsion Laboratory Sheds 10% Of Its Workforce
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory oversees 40 missions to every planet in the solar system, plus the Sun. That won't save its employees from "restructuring."
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