outerspace
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Botched SpaceX Starship Launch Leaves Texas Town Covered in Debris and Dust
SpaceX’s Starship launch was a success in some ways and a failure in others. The largest rocket ever built blasted off the launch pad with record-breaking thrust and flew for four minutes straight. But also, multiple engines failed in flight, it didn’t achieve stage separation, and it exploded dramatically in a “rapid unscheduled disassembly,” as…
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Airbus Shows Off Space Station Design With Simulated Gravity
European company Airbus unveiled a sleek, modern concept for an orbital module designed to host four astronauts in low Earth orbit, lunar orbit, and possibly during future missions to Mars.
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Recent Explosion Means ULA’s Big New Rocket Won’t Launch For a While
Following a disturbing explosion that swept over NASA’s test facility in Alabama, United Launch Alliance (ULA) doesn’t expect its Vulcan rocket to fly until the winter.
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NASA’s Mars Sample Return Mission Is Already Facing a Serious Cash Crunch
NASA’s quest to return rocky samples from the surface of Mars to Earth in 2033 is already running up the bill, with the project needing a lot more money than what was allocated to the mission for 2023.