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Mapping What’s in Orbit and How it Got There
Nearly half of the artificial satellites in orbit carry a payload. Often, these are in the form of sensors for observation, systems like GPS, and other scientific instruments. A small portion, about ...
SpaceX rocket carrying NASA's newest space telescope launches from California
The $488 million Spherex mission aims to explain how galaxies formed and evolved over billions of years, and how the universe ...
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Rocket Report: Starship fails for a second time; what’s to blame for Vulcan delays?
Welcome to Edition 7.34 of the Rocket Report! What a day in space Thursday was. During the morning hours we saw the triumphant second flight of the Ariane 6 rocket, a pivotal moment for European ...
The New York Times10d
Eric Schmidt Joins Relativity Space, a Rocket Start-Up, as C.E.O.
The aim would partly be to take on Elon Musk’s SpaceX, the dominant rocket maker. Relativity Space has also said it has a long-term goal of creating an industrial base on Mars. Mr. Ellis, who ...