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Chinese satellite maker GalaxySpace starts IPO process
Chinese satellite maker GalaxySpace has begun the so-called tutoring process for a potential initial public offering, state media reported on Tuesday, the latest private space fir...
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SpaceX's Starlink loses contact with satellite, says no threat to space missions
SpaceX's Starlink said one of its satellites had an anomaly on-orbit on Sunday, leading to a loss of communications with the spacecraft at roughly 560 km (347.97 miles) above Ear...
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NASA set for first crewed moon return in over half a century
Three U.S. and one Canadian astronaut are due for liftoff on Wednesday for a 10-day test mission swinging around the moon and back.
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Voyager, Icarus Robotics to test free-flying robot on space station
Space-tech firm Voyager Technologies has secured a mission management contract with robotics startup Icarus Robotics to demonstrate a free-flying robotic system on the Internatio...
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How NASA's Artemis II moon mission will unfold
NASA's Artemis II mission is expected to last about 10 days, sending four astronauts on a high-speed journey around the moon and back in the first crewed lunar mission since the A...
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Japan's ispace delays NASA-sponsored moon landing to 2030
Japanese spacecraft startup ispace said on Friday it will further delay a U.S. government-sponsored lunar mission to 2030 and cut its global workforce, in a strategic shift after ...
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When a sperm whale gives birth, the mother gets help from her friends
When a mother sperm whale gives birth, it is a remarkable team effort. Marine biologists have documented how multiple adult female sperm whales surrounded the mother as the whale g...
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Genetic study identifies earliest-known dog, dating to 15,800 years ago
Dogs have been loyal companions to people since we made them our first domesticated animals, descending long ago from gray wolves - though precisely when, where and why have remain...
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NASA awards Intuitive Machines $180.4 million lunar payload contract
Intuitive Machines said on Tuesday NASA has awarded the space startup a $180.4 million contract to deliver seven science and technology payloads to the moon's south pole.
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NASA to spend $20 billion on moon base, cancel orbiting lunar station
NASA is cancelling plans to deploy a space station in lunar orbit and will instead use its components to construct a $20 billion base on the moon's surface over the next seven ye...
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Russia launches first rocket from repaired Baikonur launch pad
Russia launched a Soyuz rocket from a repaired launch pad at its Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Sunday, restoring its capability to fly to the International Space Station f...
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NASA rover detects some of the oldest evidence of water flowing on Mars
Using ground-penetrating radar, NASA's Perseverance rover has detected underground remains of an ancient river delta on Mars in some of the oldest evidence yet obtained showing how...
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Likely meteor rattled residents in Ohio, Pennsylvania
A kaboom, a fireball and white streaks in the skies over Pennsylvania and Ohio - seen as far as Virginia and Canada - were probably the signs of a meteorite landing near Clevelan...
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Dinosaur fossils in Brazil reveal new giant species
Brazilian scientists have identified a new species of giant dinosaur with ties to a similar animal found in Spain, reinforcing knowledge that land routes once connected parts of ...
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Large shinbone found in New Mexico belongs to close kin of T. rex
A new analysis of a large shinbone unearthed in a remote spot in northwestern New Mexico in the 1970s shows it belongs to a close relative of Tyrannosaurus rex that predated that ...
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Delays with SpaceX's Starship risk NASA moon landing timeline, watchdog says
SpaceX's Starship has accumulated at least two years of development delays since NASA picked the rocket as an astronaut moon lander in 2021, and is expected to require more time ...
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Space One's third rocket failure leaves Japan without commercial launch capability
Japan's Space One said its Kairos rocket terminated its flight after lift-off on Thursday, failing to achieve the country's first entirely commercial satellite launch on its thir...
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NASA shakes up moon program with new test mission before astronaut lunar landing
NASA added a new mission to its Artemis moon program involving a spacecraft docking test in Earth's orbit before landing its first astronauts on the moon in over half a century, ov...
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