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Starship’s Next Launch Could Be Just Two Weeks Away
Less than a month has passed since the historic fifth flight of SpaceX’s Starship, during which the company caught the ...
China’s New Heavy Lift Rocket Looks a Whole Lot Like SpaceX’s Starship
When Chinese space officials unveiled the design for the country’s first super heavy-lift rocket nearly a decade ago, it looked ...
OpenAI Threatens Bans as Users Probe Its ‘Strawberry’ AI Models
OpenAI truly does not want you to know what its latest AI model is “thinking.” Since the company launched its ...
The Polaris Dawn Spaceflight Was More Than Just a Billionaire Joyride
A white spacecraft, lightly toasted like a marshmallow and smelling of singed metal, fell out of the night sky early ...
Strange Noises Are Coming from Inside Boeing’s Starliner Spacecraft
On Saturday NASA astronaut Butch Wilmore noticed some strange noises emanating from a speaker inside the Starliner spacecraft. “I’ve got ...
NASA Nears Decision Time on Boeing Starliner’s Fate
With no consensus on the safety of the Starliner crew capsule, NASA officials said Wednesday they need another week or ...
NASA Still Hasn’t Decided How to Get the Boeing Starliner Astronauts Home
During a news conference on Wednesday, NASA officials for the first time publicly discussed divisions within the agency about whether ...
The Affordable Connectivity Program Died—and Thousands of Households Have Already Lost Their Internet
The death of the US government’s Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP) is starting to result in disconnection of internet service for ...
Nuclear-Powered Rockets Could Be The New Space Race’s Greatest Gift
Illustration: Lockheed Martin Nuclear-powered spacecraft could be the apex vehicle of this century’s space race. Concepts and designs for reactor-equipped ...
Each of the Past 12 Months Broke Temperature Records
June 2023 did not seem like an exceptional month at the time. It was the warmest June in the instrumental ...