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The space station just fired its thrusters to dodge orbital debris yet again — climbing out of the path of space junk now swarming low-Earth orbit

By Cassian Holt

Space Systems

SpaceX just flew the same rocket booster for the 16th time — one Falcon 9 first stage now reused more often than any rocket in history

By Cassian Holt

Space Systems

A Chinese spacecraft just refueled another satellite in orbit for the first time — a docking-and-fuel maneuver that could keep aging satellites alive for years

By Cassian Holt

Space Systems

A cubesat the size of a cereal box just beamed data across deep space using a laser — a test that could make Mars links 10 times faster

By Cassian Holt

Space Systems

Amazon’s satellite-internet network just passed 300 satellites in a single year — now the third-largest constellation in orbit and closing on Starlink

By Cassian Holt

Space Systems

SpaceX’s Super Heavy booster lost multiple engines during its boostback burn and crashed hard into the Gulf — the one clear failure of an otherwise strong flight

By Cassian Holt

Space Systems

Two camera satellites SpaceX released in flight just beamed back the first live photos of Starship’s heat shield baking during reentry

By Cassian Holt

Space Systems

SpaceX’s first V3 Starship reached space, dropped 22 mock satellites, and splashed down in the Indian Ocean — even as one engine threatened to tear it apart

By Cassian Holt

Space Systems

SpaceX just flew its biggest Starship yet to space and dropped 22 satellites — then its booster lost engines mid-burn and slammed into the Gulf

By Cassian Holt

Space Systems

The Pentagon is wiring an all-digital phased-array antenna into airborne nodes — built to track swarms of hypersonic test shots at once from high above

By Cassian Holt

Space Systems

Russia may begin first sea trials this year of the Khabarovsk — a submarine built around the Poseidon, a nuclear torpedo meant to swamp coastlines

By Alexander Clark

Space Systems

SpaceX will drop 20 dummy satellites and two camera probes on Starship’s first V3 flight — built to photograph the heat shield as it bakes during reentry

By Cassian Holt

Space Systems

Starlink has pulled so far ahead in space-based internet that rival networks are now scrambling to carve out the sky before it’s fully claimed

By Cassian Holt

Space Systems

SpaceX got within seconds of launching its first Starship V3 before a propellant-line glitch halted everything — the next attempt comes tonight

By Cassian Holt

Space Systems

NASA’s Psyche spacecraft just whipped past Mars at 2,800 miles to steal a gravity boost — slinging itself toward a giant metal asteroid far beyond the belt

By Cassian Holt

Space Systems

SpaceX scrubbed its giant Starship V3 seconds from liftoff as automated holds froze the countdown — and it will try the maiden flight again tonight

By Cassian Holt

Space Systems

SpaceX will bring its Super Heavy booster down for a water landing in the Gulf today — skipping the tower catch on the maiden V3 flight

By Cassian Holt

Space Systems

The heat-shield tiles that doomed earlier Starships get their first live camera inspection in flight today — two probes beaming photos back through reentry

By Cassian Holt

Space Systems

Starship’s first V3 flight will drop 20 dummy Starlink satellites today — and two camera probes will photograph the heat shield as it bakes during reentry

By Cassian Holt

Space Systems

SpaceX launches its first Starship V3 today — a 408-foot rocket firing 9% more thrust than any machine ever built, from a brand-new pad

By Cassian Holt

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