Inside Starshot, the audacious plan to shoot tiny ships to Alpha Centauri
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SpaceX preps Falcon Heavy for “most difficult” flight
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"13 Minutes to the Moon" - BBC documentary podcast on Apollo 11
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The launch industry prepares for a shakeout
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Rocket Lab launches three US military satellites
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SpaceX’s unnerving silence on an explosive incident
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On verge of space history, Beresheet fails to land safely on Moon
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SpaceX lands all three Falcon Heavy rocket boosters for the first time ever
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Israeli robotic moon landing fails in final descent
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Watch SpaceX’s powerful Falcon Heavy rocket fly its first commercial mission
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SpaceX begins Starship hopper testing
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Chinese rocket company Linkspace successfully tests hovering a rocket
@linkspace_china: LinkSpace did a very successful test on rocket recycling on March 27, 2019. It will support us to open the next PLAN. Thank you Dr. @robert_zubrin for being here to witness this exciting milestone. Later, NewLine Baby(RLV-T5) will undergo higher flight tests in the future. https://t.co/9aIpLopstW
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The plan to make artificial meteor showers
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NASA studying ways to accelerate development of Space Launch System
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Vice President Pence gives NASA five years to put Americans back on the Moon
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SpaceX goes all-in on steel Starship, scraps expensive carbon fiber BFR tooling
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SpaceX's Starship prototype vehicle may "hop" for the first time this week
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Engineers still studying problem with InSight heat flow probe
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Beyond the big splash: What SpaceX success means for America
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The marriage of SpaceX and NASA hasn’t been easy—but it’s been fruitful
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Opportunity did not answer NASA’s final call, and it’s now lost to us
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OneWeb set to launch first satellites in quest to provide global internet coverage from space
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Chang’e 4 Lunar Orbit: A postmortem
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NASA gives go-ahead for SpaceX commercial crew test flight
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NASA’s Mars rover Opportunity concludes a fifteen-year mission
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The “Impossible” Tech Behind SpaceX’s New Engine
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NASA about to pull plug on Mars rover, silent for eight months
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Mars One company goes bankrupt
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Stuff In Space
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Big new Indian rocket launches satellite, setting stage for Moon mission
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NASA will retire its new mega-rocket if SpaceX or Blue Origin can safely launch its own powerful rockets
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Astronauts escape malfunctioning Soyuz rocket
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Experimenting with liquid rockets
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Inside the eight desperate weeks that saved SpaceX from ruin
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SpaceX has signed the world’s first private passenger to fly around the Moon aboard the BFR launch vehicle
@spacex: SpaceX has signed the world's first private passenger to fly around the Moon aboard our BFR launch vehicle-an important step toward enabling access for everyday people who dream of traveling to space. Find out who's flying and why on Monday, September 17.
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Paul Wooster - SpaceX's Plans for Mars - 21st Annual International Mars Society Convention
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Blue Origin successfully lands both booster and crew capsule after test launch
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SpaceX completes vast Mr Steven arm upgrades for quadruple-sized net
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Launch failures: the boring stuff
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SpaceX’s Pad 39A undergoing upgrades for Dragon 2 crew launches
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SpaceX shares video of Crew Dragon parachute test
@spacex: At Naval Air Facility El Centro in Southern California, SpaceX recently completed its 16th test of Crew Dragon's parachute system-verifying the system's ability to slow Crew Dragon and ensure a safe landing in the unlikely event of a low altitude abort. https://t.co/OOQnAtNXJ3 https://t.co/kFX7Qth3AK
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Rocket Lab plans to launch rocket "It's Business Time" tomorrow, June 27, 00:30 UTC
If successful this will be Rocket Lab's first commercial launch and second rocket to reach orbit after Still Testing's successful launch in January. It's Business Time will carry a handful of...
If successful this will be Rocket Lab's first commercial launch and second rocket to reach orbit after Still Testing's successful launch in January. It's Business Time will carry a handful of small satellites including the IRVINE01 cubesat built by Irvine, California high school students; two Lemur-2 cubesats for Spire; and the NABEO drag sail demonstrator for end of life satellite deorbiting for Bavaria.
Rocket Lab launches their Electron rockets from Launch Complex 1 on the picturesque Mahia Peninsula in New Zealand.
Rocket Watch page with some info and a countdown timer
It's business, it's business time!
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Launch bumped to 02:10 UTC
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OneSpace launches China's first private rocket
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SpaceX's upgraded Falcon 9 rocket aces maiden flight, sticks landing
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