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It turns out NASA’s Mars helicopter was much more revolutionary than we knew
Ingenuity packed more computing power than all other NASA deep space missions combined’
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Elon Musk: SpaceX needs to build Starships as often as Boeing builds 737s
SpaceX will need to make an order-of-magnitude more Starships than Boosters
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“Such signal, much wow”: Starlink’s first texts via “cellphone towers in space”
successful text messaging
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Starlink launches first “cellphone towers in space” for use with LTE phones
featured six Starlink sats equipped with the company’s upcoming direct-to-cell (DTC) capabilities
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Deep into the Kuiper Belt, New Horizons is still doing science
Ars shared an update on New Horizons’s ongoing science mission
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Our ranking of top US launch companies finds a familiar name on top
Eric Berger’s rankings of US rocket companies in 2023
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SpaceX completes static fire test in push toward third Starship launch
likely in early 2024
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Next year, SpaceX aims to average one launch every 2.5 days
plans to conduct a total of around 144 launches
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Blue Origin sure seems confident it will launch New Glenn in 2024
launch of the four-year-delayed New Glenn is starting to look somewhat plausible in 2024
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Don’t count on NASA to return humans to the Moon in 2025 or 2026, GAO says
Don’t count on NASA to return humans to the Moon in 2025 or 2026, GAO says
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A top-secret Chinese spy satellite just launched on a supersized rocket
presumed geosynchronous, optical spy satellite
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ULA chief says Vulcan rocket will slip to 2024 after ground system issues
slipped into early 2024