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  1. Rocket Report: Will Northrop’s rocket be reusable? Fourth Starship gets fired twice

    "So don’t have that expectation, please. It’s not going to be perfect."

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  2. Daily Telescope: Peering into the remnants of an 800-year-old supernova

    Incomplete explosions can leave a kind of "zombie" star.

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  3. The Delta IV Heavy, a rocket whose time has come and gone, will fly once more

    The final Delta IV Heavy rocket is scheduled to launch Thursday, weather permitting.

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  4. The company building a rotating detonation engine is pushing the tech forward

    "I'm convinced that this is going to be the engine that unlocks the hypersonic economy."

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  5. Daily Telescope: A protostar with a stunning protoplanetary disc

    Dust and stars, stars and dust.

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  6. Starliner’s first commander: Don’t expect perfection on crew test flight

    Dave Calhoun, who has led Boeing since 2020, will step down as CEO at the end of the year.

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  7. Seeing this eclipse is probably the highest-reward, lowest-effort thing one can do in life

    Don't not see it.

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  8. It’s a few years late, but a prototype supersonic airplane has taken flight

    "This milestone will be invaluable to Boom’s revival of supersonic travel."

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  9. Rocket Report: Starship could fly again in May; Ariane 6 coming together

    "I think we’re really going to focus on getting reentry right."

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  10. SpaceX’s workhorse launch pad now has the accoutrements for astronauts

    "This system will help us scale to bigger towers and spaceships."

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  11. A Soyuz crew launch suffers a rare abort seconds before liftoff

    The Soyuz booster and its launch systems are typically robust.

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  12. Rocket launch marks big step in building China’s lunar infrastructure

    Queqiao-2 will relay data between Earth and Chinese spacecraft on the far side of the Moon.

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  1. It’s official: Europe turns to the Falcon 9 to launch its navigation satellites

    The European Union agreed to pay a 30 percent premium for Falcon 9 launches.

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  2. Thomas Stafford, who flew to the Moon and docked with Soyuz, dies at 93

    Stafford and his Apollo 10 shipmates still hold the speed record on a crew spacecraft.

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  3. Daily Telescope: A colorful star trail through the largest window in space

    Expect more of this later in 2024 as a veteran astronaut heads back into orbit.

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  4. The US government seems serious about developing a lunar economy

    You know the military is serious when the guy running the program is nicknamed "Orbit."

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  5. Finally, engineers have a clue that could help them save Voyager 1

    A new signal from humanity's most distant spacecraft could be the key to restoring it.

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  6. After Thursday’s flight, Starship is already the most revolutionary rocket ever built

    For fun, we could compare Starship as it exists today to other available rockets.

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  7. Rocket Report: Starship heats up in third flight; Chinese lunar launch failure

    "Frustration with Artemis’s high price tag is justifiable."

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  8. SpaceX celebrates major progress on the third flight of Starship

    Starship's third launch appeared flawless, but SpaceX has more work to do on recovery.

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  9. SpaceX has a license to launch Starship—this time it might fly at dawn

    The launch window opens before sunrise Thursday at SpaceX's launch site in Texas.

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  10. Mining helium-3 on the Moon has been talked about forever—now a company will try

    "There are so many investments that we could be making, but there are also Moonshots."

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  11. Daily Telescope: Gigantic new stars stir up a nebula

    Astronomers know of no other region so packed with large stars as this nebula.

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  12. NASA grapples with budget cuts as it undertakes ambitious programs

    "Naturally, we have to make hard choices."

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  1. After coming back from the dead, the world’s largest aircraft just flew a real payload

    Falling just short of hypersonic velocity.

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  2. A hunk of junk from the International Space Station hurtles back to Earth

    Three tons of trash from the space station fell to Earth in an unguided reentry.

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  3. Rocket Report: Starbase will expand into state park; another Japanese rocket

    "Those launches are exciting the young minds that are watching them."

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  4. After Astra loses 99 percent of its value, founders take rocket firm private

    First you burn the cash, then comes the crash.

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  5. Daily Telescope: A brilliant shot of a comet as it nears the Sun

    The comet should brighten further as it nears the Sun in the coming weeks.

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  6. Russia’s next-generation rocket is a decade old and still flying dummy payloads

    Russia's heavy-lift Angara A5 rocket is about to launch on its fourth test flight.

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  7. The next Starship mission has a tentative launch date: March 14

    This third flight has a reasonable chance of success.

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  8. SpaceX just showed us what every day could be like in spaceflight

    SpaceX wants to make these kinds of days the norm, not the exception.

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  9. Daily Telescope: A new Webb image reveals a cosmos full of galaxies

    See a galaxy as it was just 430 million years after the Big Bang.

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  10. NASA cancels a multibillion-dollar satellite servicing demo mission

    Congress kept throwing money at the OSAM-1 mission, but it faced continual delays.

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  11. Blue Origin is getting serious about developing a human spacecraft

    Company seeks: "Experience with human spaceflight or high-performance aircraft systems?"

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  12. The world’s most-traveled crew transport spacecraft flies again

    SpaceX and NASA officials are watching for wear and tear on Crew Dragon Endeavour.

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