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SpaceX is making progress assembling its Starship orbital spacecraft prototype, as seen in new photos shared by SpaceX CEO Elon Musk . This full-scale testing version of the Starship will take over for the StarHopper, which was a scaled down version used to t…

NASA’s interactive programming was a hit this year: The U.S. government agency recently won two Emmy Awards for its coverage of the Mars InSight mission and the SpaceX Demonstration Mission-1. “Congrats to all involved and those who help tell the @NASA story…

NASA, your first Emmy of 2019 has landed.  The NASA team behind the space agency's coverage of SpaceX's historic Crew Dragon test flight to the International Space Station last March nabbed an Emmy for Outstanding Interactive Program late Saturday (Sept. 14)…

Two NASA broadcasts for historic milestones in space exploration have nabbed Emmy nominations for interactive programming, but will the space agency take home a statue? NASA's coverage of its InSight landing on Mars in November 2018 earned its first 2019 Emm…

The FCC filing came days after word fromBusiness Insider (later verified) that the FAA was effectively granting SpaceX permission to expand its Boca Chica launch facility for the sake of Starship launches. The company also hasn't tried to hide its constructio…

SpaceX is taking the steps necessary to begin test flying the orbital-class version of its Starship spacecraft, with new documents filed by the company (via Teslarati) with the FCC seeking necessary permissions for it to communicate with the prototype while i…

Europe's rocket-launching industry is gearing up to go reusable. The European launch provider Arianespace — best known as the manufacturer of the heavy-lift Ariane 5 and the future Ariane 6 — has a plan to make its future rockets more competitive in a tigh…

Image copyrightAFP Huawei says it wants to bring high-speed internet to Canada's north. But some people are worried this gift from China could be a Trojan Horse. Want to watch the latest viral hit on YouTube? Transfer money online? Video chat with your gra…

There were plenty of unusual things about this weeks satellite kerfuffle between the European Space Agency and SpaceXthe public statement released by ESA, initial reports that SpaceX declined to move its Starlink satellite despite being warned about a risk of…

A version of this first appeared as the TIME Space newsletter sent on Aug. 30. Space is aspirational. Merely the act of looking through a telescope is an exercise in questing. It’s vast, exciting, and gorgeous out there. Even scenes of cataclysm—a supernova,…