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Russian Nuclear Agency Confirms Radiation Leak Following Rocket Engine Test
Russian nuclear agency Rosatom admitted on Saturday that a suspicious cloud of radiation that spread over the Arkhangelsk region was caused by an explosion at one of its facilities, the Guardian reported, involving experiments involving an “isotope power source for a liquid-fuelled rocket engine.”
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Interstellar Technologies Becomes First Private Japanese Firm To Reach Space With Momo-3 Launch
Aerospace company Interstellar Technologies Inc. became the first private firm in Japan to launch a rocket into space on Saturday, per the Japan Times, by sending an unmanned, 10-meter, one-ton Momo-3 rocket some 110 kilometres upwards on a brief but milestone hitting journey.
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Stratolaunch, World’s Largest-Ever Plane By Wingspan, Successfully Takes Off On Maiden Flight
Stratolaunch, the world’s largest plane by wingspan and the brainchild of late Silicon Valley billionaire Paul Allen, finally took off at around 10:00 a.m. local time on Saturday for a two and a half hour inaugural flight, the Washington Post reported.
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Report: DHS Wants To Build Trump’s Dumb Border Wall Right Through SpaceX’s Texas Launch Facility
The 50-acre Boca Chica, Texas facility where Elon Musk’s SpaceX is testing the prototype version of its Starship rocket—recently in the news for tipping over in high wind—could be split in twain by Donald Trump’s proposed wall on the Mexican border, Bloomberg reported on Friday.