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Five benefits Africa's new space agency can deliver
The African Space Agency was officially inaugurated in Cairo's Space City in April 2025. The event marked a milestone in a process that had been in the works since the early 2000s. Drawing inspiration from the European Space ...
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The nuclear option: Europe's plan for faster space travel
Getting to Mars takes a really long time, about nine months using today's rocket technology. This is because regular rocket engines burn fuel and oxygen together (like a car engine), but they're not very efficient. The fundamental ...
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Space: The final frontier or the next stage for global colonialism and exclusion?
Just when we thought we'd learned from the past, humanity is preparing to repeat its most destructive habits—this time, in space.
Space Exploration
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A ten-fold increase in rocket launches would start harming the ozone layer, new research finds
The international space industry is on a growth trajectory, but new research shows a rapid increase in rocket launches would damage the ozone layer.
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Amid Musk threat to decommission SpaceX Dragon, NASA reveals more Boeing Starliner delays
As the fracas between Elon Musk and President Donald Trump escalated to the point of Musk threatening to decommission SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft, NASA revealed even more delays to Dragon's alternative, Boeing's Starliner.
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Starlink satellites fall to Earth faster during increased solar activity, study finds
A trio of heliophysicists and satellite trackers at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and the Goddard Planetary Heliophysics Institute at the University of Maryland has found evidence showing that Starlink satellites reenter ...
Video: Ignis mission ready for lift-off
ESA project astronaut Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski is heading to the International Space Station on his first mission as part of Axiom Mission 4 (Ax-4). He is the second ESA project astronaut from a new generation of Europeans ...
Space Exploration
Jun 9, 2025
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NASA provides hardware for space station DNA repair experiment
When it comes to helping NASA scientists better understand the effects of space travel on the human body, fruit flies are the heavyweights of experiments in weightlessness. Because humans and fruit flies share a lot of similar ...
Space Exploration
Jun 9, 2025
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Core components for NASA's Roman Space Telescope pass major shake test
The core portion of NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has successfully completed vibration testing, ensuring it will withstand the extreme shaking experienced during launch. Passing this key milestone brings Roman ...
Astronomy
Jun 9, 2025
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Axiom Space's record-setter to lead astronauts from three nations on private mission
Peggy Whitson has spent nearly two years of her life in space as an Axiom Space employee and former NASA astronaut.
Space Exploration
Jun 9, 2025
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Musk's Starlink gets key license to launch satellite internet services in India
India has granted a key license to Elon Musk's Starlink, bringing the satellite provider a step closer to launching its commercial internet services in the country, a top Indian government official said on Friday.
Space Exploration
Jun 6, 2025
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The promise and peril of a crewed Mars mission
A crewed mission to Mars would rank among the most complex and costly undertakings in human history—and US President Donald Trump has vowed to make it a national priority.
Space Exploration
Jun 6, 2025
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Renowned Mars expert says Trump-Musk axis risks dooming mission
Robert Zubrin quite literally wrote the book on why humanity should go to Mars—so why has the renowned aerospace engineer soured on Elon Musk, the billionaire entrepreneur leading the charge?
Space Exploration
Jun 6, 2025
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Private lunar lander from Japan crashes into moon in failed mission
A private lunar lander from Japan crashed while attempting a touchdown Friday, the latest casualty in the commercial rush to the moon.
Space Exploration
Jun 5, 2025
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NASA, ISRO research aboard fourth private astronaut mission to station
NASA and ISRO (Indian Space Research Organization) are collaborating to launch scientific investigations aboard Axiom Mission 4, the fourth private astronaut mission to the International Space Station. These studies include ...
Space Exploration
Jun 5, 2025
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Fighter pilot takes next giant step for India's space plans
Astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla blasts off into space next week as the first Indian to join the International Space Station (ISS), bearing with him New Delhi's dreams of its own manned space flight.
Space Exploration
Jun 5, 2025
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Private Japanese lunar lander heads toward a touchdown in the moon's far north
A private lunar lander from Japan is closing in on the moon, aiming for a touchdown in the unexplored far north with a mini rover.
Space Exploration
Jun 5, 2025
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Reusable Chinese rocket soft-lands in the ocean in a new test
Chinese rocket startup Space Epoch put on a show recently, with a demonstration test launch of their reusable Yanxingzhe-1 rocket booster.
Space Exploration
Jun 4, 2025
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Missions to Mars with the Starship could only take three months
Mars has received considerable attention in the past few decades, thanks to the many robotic missions exploring it to learn more about its past. NASA and China plan to send astronauts/taikonauts there in the coming decades, ...
Space Exploration
Jun 3, 2025
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Traveling to Mars and Ceres using Lunar Gateway as a springboard
How can humanity use the developing Lunar Gateway as an appropriate starting point for advancing human space exploration beyond the moon? This is what a recent study presented at the 56th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference ...
Space Exploration
Jun 2, 2025
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