Private lunar lander Blue Ghost falls silent on the moon after a 2-week mission
It's lights out for the first private lunar lander to pull off a fully successful moon mission. Firefly Aerospace's Blue ...
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Space mission to blast off to moon's south pole - with suitcase-sized 'hopper' on board
Two space mining missions are blasting off this week, with one heading to the southern-most point ever visited on the moon's surface. A robotic moon lander called Athena will embark on Intuitive ...
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Private Space Stations of the Future Promise Luxury. But Can They Deliver?
NASA wants to get out of the space station business and put it in the hands of, well, businesses. The agency is planning to send the International Space Station (ISS) to a fiery death through ...
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Space Force Releases Photo of Earth Taken by Experimental Space Plane
The United States Space Force has unexpectedly published a photo its top-secret X-37B space plane took while orbiting the Earth last year. The image, which the military arm shared on X-formerly ...
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Secretive Space Force X-37B space plane snaps first selfie in orbit
Last week, the US Space Force posted a photo online from its uncrewed X-37B space plane's seventh mission, showing the orbital test vehicle above our planet in High Earth Orbit over 22,000 miles away.
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NASA's 'SPHEREx' infrared space telescope is launching soon. Here's why it's a big deal
Earth will soon gain a new robotic companion. NASA's latest space telescope, SPHEREx — short for Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer ...
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US Space Force releases first image of X-37B after its seventh mission
The US Space Force has revealed the first images of its secretive X-37B space plane, which has been in orbit for more than a year. With the release of this photo, the X-37B has achieved another ...
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KBR wins $176 million contract to modernize U.S. space surveillance site
Credit; AFRL Join our newsletter to get the latest military space news every Tuesday by veteran defense journalist Sandra Erwin. WASHINGTON — KBR secured a $176 million contract to maintain and ...
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US Releases First Official Picture Of Secretive X-37B Space Plane In Orbit
A camera onboard the secret X-37B space plane capturing Earth's picture. The United States Space Force (USSF) on Friday (Feb 21) released the first photograph of its top-secret X-37B space plane ...
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Elon Musk Launched Tesla Car In Space 7 Years Ago, Here's Where It Is Now
The February 2018 launch also shot SpaceX CEO Elon Musk's personal Tesla Roadster, along with a mannequin named Starman, into space and the cherry-red sports car is still out there in orbit ...
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US military releases first photo from orbit from its mysterious space plane
There aren’t a ton of specifics about what the military’s X-37B has been up to in space, but we now know one thing for certain: The view is pretty good. On Thursday, Feb. 20, the Space Force ...