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Despite the Trump administration’s insistence that the U.S. must win a race back to the moon with China, NASA looks increasingly unlikely to succeed, experts say. Meanwhile China insists it isn’t in a race at all yet looks poised to win the 21st century’s lunar scramble. The first Trump administration…

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket streaks across the sky on the SpainSat NG-2 mission for Hisdesat as seen from St. Cloud, Florida. Image: Michael Cain / Spaceflight Now Update Oct. 23, 10:25 p.m. EDT (0225 UTC): SpaceX deployed the SpainSat NG-2 satellite. A SpaceX Falcon 9 first stage flew Thursday for…

In this episode of Space Minds, host David Ariosto speaks with Terry Hart, former NASA astronaut and mission specialist on the Space Shuttle Challenger. Hart reflects on the triumphs of early shuttle missions, the lessons of the Challenger tragedy, and how those experiences shape today’s commercial space era led by…

Elon Musk’s SpaceX has disabled more than 2,500 Starlink devices in and around scam centers in Myanmar, following warnings from activists that mainly Chinese syndicates were using the technology to defraud people worldwide. The company “proactively identified and disabled over 2,500 Starlink Kits in the vicinity of suspected ‘scam centers,’”…

WASHINGTON — SpaceX Chief Executive Elon Musk hurled insults at NASA’s acting administrator a day after complaints that the company was behind schedule on its Artemis lunar lander. In a series of social media posts Oct. 21, Musk questioned the qualifications and intelligence of Sean Duffy, who also serves as…

NASA acting administrator Sean Duffy made two television appearances on Monday morning in which he shook up the space agency’s plans to return humans to the moon. Speaking on Fox News, where the secretary of transportation frequently appears in his acting role as NASA chief, Duffy said SpaceX has fallen…

Lynk Global, which builds its small satellites in-house, has launched commercial services in parts of the Solomon Islands, Cook Islands and Palau. Credit: Lynk Global TAMPA, Fla. — Lynk Global plans to merge with Omnispace to upgrade its direct-to-device (D2D) services with globally coordinated S-band spectrum, joining SpaceX and AST…

After three quiet months, @SpaceX is back on the blockchain radar. The aerospace giant has transferred 2,495 BTC, worth about $268.5 million, to two new wallets, its first major Bitcoin movement since July. According to on-chain data flagged by @spotonchain, the funds were split between two addresses:  1,187 BTC (~$127.8M)…

There is an intensifying race to return humans to the Moon, pitting the US against China and now NASA Acting Administrator Sean Duffy will have SpaceX race Blue Origin and other bidders. China is aiming for a crewed lunar landing in 2029–2030. There are developing a Long March 10A super…

NASA’s acting administrator, Sean Duffy, seems to have provoked the ire of Elon Musk. Musk, the founder and CEO of SpaceX, took aim at Duffy on Tuesday in a flurry of social media posts, attacking his intelligence and recent efforts at the helm of the space agency. “Sean Dummy is…