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SpaceX’s enormous Starship rocket finally launched – and then exploded
Starship has finally launched, but it didn’t go quite as planned. The SpaceX rocket, the biggest and most powerful to…
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SpaceX’s Starship Explodes During First Orbital Test Flight
First-time orbital flights can be challenging and often fail, like Relativity Space’s 3D-printed rocket, which launched in March and flew until…
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Starship launch livestream: Watch as SpaceX begins second attempt
SpaceX is getting ready to launch its Starship rocket for the first time from its Starbase launch facility in Texas.…
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How a Beam of Pellets Could Blast a Probe Into Deep Space
That said, he expects that the futuristic project could take more than a half-century to realize. It poses a few…
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The World’s First 3D-Printed Rocket Is About to Launch
An almost entirely 3D-printed rocket is ready to blast off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, then head for low Earth orbit.…
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On-Demand Rocket Launches Are Coming
Nine engines, 50,000 liters of fuel, 7 metric tons of thrust, and a velocity of nearly 8 kilometers a second…
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You Can Use This Silly Game to Do Some Serious Physics
I’m a sucker for interesting online games that don’t have a score or even a goal. In this case, it’s…
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It’s Not Sci-Fi—NASA Is Funding These Mind-Blowing Projects
Instead, with his “fluidic telescope” concept, one need only launch a frame structure—such as an umbrella-shaped satellite dish—and a tank…
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How Do You Prove There’s Ice on the Moon? With a Lunar Flashlight
“For me, this is a dream measurement,” says David Paige, a planetary scientist at the University of California, Los Angeles…
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The Orion Moon Capsule Is Back. What Happens Next?
After circling the moon for the past three weeks, NASA’s Orion capsule splashed down under parachute yesterday morning off the…
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