SpaceX Just Proved Rocket Reuse Works Better Than Anyone Expected
Putting things into outer space is expensive, that's why reusable rocket boosters have been the dream for decades, and SpaceX is making it work.
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How Many SpaceX Launches Have Been Completed?
SpaceX's launch history runs from early Falcon 1 failures to astronaut flights and Starship tests, with one rocket doing most of the work along the way.
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Elon Musk Is Planning To Retire One Of SpaceX's Most Popular Rockets — Here's Why
SpaceX has relied on the same rocket for years of astronaut trips and satellite launches, but Elon Musk says it won't stay at the center of SpaceX forever.
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Why Doesn't NASA Use More Reusable Rockets?
Reusing a rocket sounds like an obvious way for NASA to save money, but the cost of a SpaceX launch and the price the agency pays for it aren't the same thing.
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SpaceX's Starship Needs To Be Fully Operational By 2028 — Here's Why
SpaceX has plenty left to test on Starship, from refueling to docking in orbit, and NASA is counting on it to finish in time for a much bigger assignment.
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Why Are Nautical Miles Used To Measure Distance In Space?
Judging distance by miles is good enough for most of us on the ground, but for ocean-going vessels and spacecraft nautical miles make more sense.
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How Do Space Mirrors Actually Work?
A company called Reflect Orbital received permission to send a test satellite into orbit to reflect sunlight back to Earth, how does this even work?
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Is SpaceX's Starship The Most Powerful Rocket Ever Built?
SpaceX fitted Starship's first-stage booster with 33 engines, enough to make you wonder how it compares with the most powerful rockets humans have ever built.
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Astronomers Detected Radio Signals From An Alien Planet - Here's What We Know
Space is full of electromagnetic radiation like radio signals, but those signals are usually coming from stars or black holes, not planets.
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Merlin Vs. Raptor: How Do These SpaceX Rocket Engines Compare?
While both the Merlin and Raptor rocket engines are being used by SpaceX for launch missions, there are key differences between the two designs.
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NASA And Boeing's Starliner Is Going Back To Space Soon With One Big Change
Boeing's Starliner could return to space before the year is out, but NASA has a different plan in place after the problems that plagued its last mission.
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SpaceX Just Revealed That Orbital Data Centers Will Be Here Sooner Than You Think
There's been a lot of chatter lately about orbital data centers, and contrary to popular belief, satellite-based computing is closer than you think.
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Not Satellites, Not Telescopes: The Next Big Solar Storm Could Be Predicted By Trees
If scientists want to better understand solar storms and the cycles that drive them, they need longitudinal data, which they get from old trees.
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Astronomers Believe The Solar System Once Had Nine Planets - And The Sun Ate One Of Them
The status of Pluto not withstanding, our solar system has 8 planets, but one astronomer believes we used to have a ninth that was eaten by the sun.
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The James Webb Space Telescope Discovered This Little Red Dot Is Actually An Ancient Black Hole
The James Webb Space Telescope is one of the most advanced instruments ever built, and the little red dot it saw could change all of cosmology.
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Mercury Is Shrinking Faster Than Scientists Estimated - Here's What That Means
There's a lot we don't know about our solar system, but that means we're always learning new stuff, like how much weight our neighbors have lost.
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China's Mars Mission Is Set To Become A Space Milestone - Here's Why
In case you haven't been paying attention, there's a new space race going on, and if China's upcoming Mars mission is a success, they may be winning.
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Scientists Turned Antarctic Ice Into The First Of Its Kind Particle 'Telescope'
This particle telescope, embedded in the Antarctic ice, gives scientists insight into important phenomena.
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Scientists Found An Unexpected Pattern In Mars' Atmosphere That Mirrors Earth
Besides Earth, Mars is the planet that we know the most about, but that doesn't mean there isn't more to discover; Mars can still surprise us.
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SpaceX's Starship 40 Shows Why Rocket Recovery Might Be Even Harder Than It Seems
With the recent successful intact splashdown of SpaceX's Starship 40, we're seeing just how challenging the recovery of these massive ships can be.
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Trump's New US Space Academy Is Coming - Here's What You Need To Know
The United States already has an academy for the Army, Navy, and Air Force, so it makes sense that NASA would also have an academy for potential astronauts.
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NASA's Roman Space Telescope Could Finally Settle The Dark Energy Debate Once And For All
NASA's new Roman space telescope boasts advanced capabilities that might finally answer questions about dark energy after decades of debate.
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SpaceX Invests $100B To Turn Louisiana Marsh Into Its Own Kennedy Space Center
Elon Musk's SpaceX company is sinking a cool $100 billion into turning a Louisiana marsh into its own equivalent of Florida's Kennedy Space Center.
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Does NASA Still Use Lenovo ThinkPads?
From Space Shuttle flights to ISS orbit, IBM's ThinkPad was the first laptop NASA used in space. See if this iconic '90s tech is still floating in space today.
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Europe's Next-Gen Rocket Concept Could Be Way More Efficient Than SpaceX's Starship
A team from Europe has proposed a rocket that is similarly sized to the Starship, but with a winged booster that can glide and be caught mid-air.
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Study Shows Particles Inside Of Rocket Engines Aren't Doing What They're Supposed To
Science is built on making assumptions and then testing those assumptions, and sometimes the testing part has a bit of a delay from the assumption.
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5 Everyday Gadgets More Powerful Than NASA's Apollo 11's Computers
NASA's Apollo 11 computers helped land humans on the moon, but how does their computing power compare with the everyday technology we use now?
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