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SpaceX has confirmed that it ran a static’s fire test of its Crew Dragon astronaut capsule launch escape system. That’s a key step that it needed to run, and one that is under especially high scrutiny since a static fire of its thrusters back in April resulte…

SpaceX, the rocket company founded by tech billionaire Elon Musk, was created with the mission of taking humans to Mars. Nearly two decades on, it's getting ever closer to achieving that goal while accomplishing plenty of other milestones along the way. Elon…

(CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.) — Mini Mercury skipped across the vast, glaring face of the sun Monday in a rare celestial transit. Stargazers used solar-filtered binoculars and telescopes to spot Mercury — a tiny black dot — as it passed directly between Earth and th…

Space is already congested but companies including SpaceX and Amazon have plans to launch thousands of satellites into orbit in years to come.Credit: ESA Spaceflight company SpaceX is set to launch 60 communications satellites into orbit today as the basis f…

Boeing submitted a proposal to NASA for a human lander concept that would deliver astronauts to the moon in the fewest steps possible.  The proposal, which was announced on Tuesday, November 5, is part of NASAs Artemis program to land astronauts on the moon …

Boeing has submitted its proposal to NASA for a lunar lander concept that the company claims will return Americans to the Moon in 2024 with the fewest steps possible. Under orders from President Trump, NASA is working to deliver American astronauts to the Mo…

The Gateway Foundation is a private company that claims they could build the first orbital space hotel by 2025. According to their site, the Von Braun Rotating Space Station is designed "to accommodate both national space agencies conducting low gravity resea…

A SpaceX Falcon 9 RocketSpaceX SpaceX is continuing its ambitious mission to bring the internet to the entire planet through its Starlink program and is furthering its aim of rocket reusability at the same time. Next week, the company will launch a further 6…

Roundup This week Boeing unveiled its lunar lander ambitions after a sort-of successful commercial crew test, Virgin Orbit revealed plans to shoot smallsats as far as Mars, and SpaceX dried off fairing recovered from the ocean for use in a static fire test. …

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