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Image: NASA / SpaceX Last week, SpaceX fired up the engines on its new passenger spacecraft, the Crew Dragon, during a ground test, and now, you can watch the fiery show in all its slow-motion glory. Today, NASA released footage from the test, marking the lat…

Astronomers at a Chilean observatory were rudely interrupted earlier this week when a SpaceX satellite train consisting of 60 Starlink satellites drifted overhead, in what scientists are apparently going to have to accept as the new normal. Launched into or…

Spotting satellites from the ground is a popular pastime among amateur astronomers. Typically, the ISS and Iridium satellites have been common sightings, with their orbits and design causing them to appear sufficiently bright in the sky. More recently, SpaceX…

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By Donna Lu Starlink satellites trail across images from DECam Cliff Johnson, Clara Martínez-Vázquez, DELVE Survey Elon Musks SpaceX interfered with astronomy again, a few days after its second batch of Starlink satellites were launched. SpaceX launched 6…

To be fair, China's space launch program has not been without hiccups. The country's space program is still trying to bring its large Long March 5 vehicle back into service after a catastrophic failure during just its second mission, in July 2017. And the cou…

NASA has announced more partnerships to help it in its ambitious quest to send the first woman and the next man to the moon by 2024. The space agency has already selected nine companies to help it with its future space missions, but on Monday it announced a …

The companies are aiming to land in the early 2020s In its ongoing effort to send cargo and eventually people to the lunar surface, NASA announced five new partnerships with commercial space companies that have designed robotic landers that can take large pa…

There’s literally a lot more stuff in space than there was last week or at least, the number of active human-made satellites in Earth’s orbit has gone up quite a bit, thanks to the launch of SpaceX’s first 60 production Starlink satellites. This week also saw…

The company conducted the tests near Landing Zone 1 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, starting with two one-second burns for two of the Crew Dragon's 16 Draco thrusters. Those thrusters will be used for maneuvering and attitude control, as well …