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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,…

By Jonathan OCallaghan The Aeolus satellite almost crashed on 2 September 2019 ESA/ATG medialab A satellite owned by the European Space Agency (ESA) has had to dodge out of the way of another satellite. The latter of the two is part of the huge constellati…

SpaceX has fired up the rocket that will launch the first crewed mission in the company's history. The company conducted a static-fire test Thursday (Aug. 29) of a Falcon 9 rocket at the SpaceX testing ground in McGregor, Texas, company representatives said.…

A European Earth-observation satellite performed an evasive maneuver yesterday (Sept. 2) to make sure it didn't collide with one of SpaceX's recently launched internet craft. The European Space Agency's (ESA) Aeolus satellite fired its thrusters yesterday mo…

You’d never be able to tell from the ground, but the area around Earth is getting a bit crowded. Fully functional satellites from NASA, the European Space Agency, and other groups have to regularly account for all manner of manmade space junk, and occasionall…

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Three months after Elon Musk’s SpaceX launched the first set of what will be a broadband-providing constellation of satellites, other operators are already veering to keep their own spacecraft out of harm’s way. The European Space Agency tweeted Monday that …

elon musk‘s aerospace company spaceX has requested NASA to provide it with potential landing sites on mars for its starship super-spaceship. starship is spaceXs next-generation spaceship meant to work within both earth and lunar orbit and eventually mars. an…

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