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SpaceX Starship Launch Hailed as a Success Despite Exploding Mid-Flight

SpaceX’s massive new Starship rocket is central to Elon Musk’s plans for humanity to become multi-planetary. It blasted off for its maiden flight yesterday...

Hyundai Motor Group Shoots For The Moon, Begins Building Lunar Rover

Hyundai Motor Group (HMG) might one day go to the Moon. The automaker has announced that it has started building a developmental lunar exploration...

Space official calls for China to seize crucial opportunity to establish lunar infrastructure

HELSINKI — A top Chinese space official has called for the country to speed up its plans to develop lunar infrastructure or miss out...

H3 failure could delay Japanese science missions

WASHINGTON — The failure of Japan’s H3 rocket on its inaugural flight in March could delay several science missions, including two scheduled to launch...

Chinese researchers find new water reservoir on the Moon

A research group from the Institute of Geology and Geophysics (IGG) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has found that impact glass...

NASA space operations head Lueders to retire

WASHINGTON — Kathy Lueders, the NASA official who oversees the International Space Station and commercial cargo and crew programs, will retire from the agency...

China loses UAE as partner for Chang’e-7 lunar south pole mission

HELSINKI — An agreement for a United Arab Emirates’ rover to fly on China’s Chang’e-7 lunar mission has apparently been hit by U.S. export...

NASA warns of “devastating” impacts of potential budget cuts

WASHINGTON — NASA Administrator Bill Nelson claims proposed spending reductions for fiscal year 2024 could have “devastating and potentially unrecoverable” effects on NASA programs,...

NASA planning to spend up to $1 billion on space station deorbit module

WASHINGTON — NASA is projecting spending nearly $1 billion on a tug to deorbit the International Space Station at the end of the decade...

Lonestar raises $5 million for lunar data centers

SAN FRANCISCO – Lonestar Data Holdings raised $5 million in seed funding for its plan to establish lunar data centers. Scout Ventures led...

Japan selects first new astronauts in 14 years to support Artemis program 

SEOUL, South Korea — Japan’s space agency JAXA said Feb. 28 it had selected two astronaut candidates as part of efforts to support the NASA-led Artemis...

First commercial crew astronauts receive Congressional Space Medal of Honor

WASHINGTON — The two men who flew on the first NASA commercial crew mission to the International Space Station in 2020 received a rarely...

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