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The U.S. is building a fuel depot in space
Some 22,500 miles above Earth, a spacecraft filled with thruster fuel will gas up two orbiting Space Force assets. The ...
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Europe's Hera spacecraft aces self-driving test at Mars before asteroid mission
The spacecraft captured the Red Planet and its enigmatic moons, Deimos and Phobos, marking its first deep-space imaging ...
SpaceX just launched two major NASA missions at once — watch the highlights
SpaceX and NASA successfully launched two major missions to orbit in a liftoff from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on Tuesday night.
Meet NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11: The Astronauts Launching to Shape Humanity’s Future in Space
Four astronauts from NASA, JAXA, and Roscosmos are teaming up for an ambitious mission aboard the International Space Station ...
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Researchers develop new design and fabrication method to make lightsails for interstellar travel
In a potential step toward sending small spacecraft to the stars, researchers have developed an ultra-thin, ultra-reflective ...
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ESA's Euclid spacecraft unveils 'gold mine' of new scientific data
March 19 (UPI) --The European Space Agency's spacecraft Euclid on Wednesday released ... New data included deep-field space imagery and snapshots of thousands of different and distant galaxies ...
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NASA's Deep Space Network is getting a new dish to help distant spacecraft phone home
"When it goes online in 2029, the new Canberra dish will be the last of six parabolic dishes constructed under NASA's Deep ...