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NASA's Webb Telescope Threatened With Budget Cuts. They Would Hit Hard.
The James Webb Space Telescope is peering into distant worlds and rewriting our grasp of the cosmos. And in 2025, its budget is on track to get slashed. At January's Meeting of the American ...
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Why We Need to Reduce, Reuse and Recycle in Space
A decade ago humanity launched around 200 objects into space per year. Now we launch more than 2,600, with no prospects for slowing down. This rapid expansion of human activity in outer space has ...
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Scientists call on UN to help solve Earth's space junk problem
"In 2024, we saw a 17% year-over-year spike in the average number of close approaches in low Earth orbit per satellite." An international group of researchers is calling on the United Nations to ...
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Here's Every Major US Space Launch Scheduled in 2025: Plan Your Viewing
Two major space launches in two days got 2025 off to a rousing start. The Blue Ghost lunar lander is on its way to the moon, and just one day after it left Earth, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos' Blue ...
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A Tiny Galaxy Ceased Making Stars For Billions Of Years. Then It Rebooted.
The James Webb Space Telescope zeroed in on dwarf galaxy Leo P to study its star-formation history. Credit: NASA GSFC / CIL / Adriana Manrique Gutierrez illustration Astronomers have learned that ...
ABC News27d
SpaceX loses spacecraft after catching rocket booster during test flight
During the mission, which has now been scrapped, the spacecraft planned to deploy 10 Starlink satellite simulators for the first time, testing its ability to deliver payloads in space. The ...
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SpaceX says its Starship spacecraft broke up midflight as videos of debris emerge online
SpaceX said Thursday that its Starship space vehicle broke up during a flight meant to test the megarocket's capabilities. The rocket system's upper stage appears to have disintegrated somewhere ...
Interesting Engineering27d
World’s most powerful wireless communication protocol into space, claims China
Developed by Beijing Aerospace Wanyuan Science & Technology, a subsidiary of the state-owned China Aerospace Corporation, this technology promises to transform space exploration. Reportedly ...
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India achieves first space docking, becoming fourth country to achieve major milestone
India on Thursday became the fourth country to successfully achieve an unmanned docking in space, a feat seen as pivotal for future missions as New Delhi cements its place as a global space power.
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Jeff Bezos’ Space Ambitions Take Flight as New Rocket Blasts Off
Jeff Bezos’ space company launched its massive new rocket for the first time, aiming to advance the Amazon founder’s lifelong space-exploration ambitions. Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket ...
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New Glenn’s journey to space.
On Thursday morning, at a time when most people in the United States were sleeping, Jeff Bezos’ space company sent its first rocket into orbit. At 2:03 a.m. Eastern time, seven powerful engines ...