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A Falcon 9 mission launched a robot designed to refuel and rescue aging satellites in orbit

By Cassian Holt

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SpaceX flew Starship on its first test since going public and released twenty satellites

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Kessler syndrome could one day trap humanity on Earth behind a wall of orbiting debris

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NASA set an August 30 launch date for its next flagship space telescope

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NASA announced a new spacecraft-technology demonstration mission at the Moon

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Ariane 6 carried 36 Amazon satellites on Europe’s heaviest launch yet

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NASA astronaut Anil Menon reached the space station after a three-hour Soyuz flight

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Voyager 1 is so far away now that a radio signal takes nearly a full day to reach it

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More than 27,000 pieces of space junk now circle the planet at 17,000 miles an hour

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Voyager 1 will sit a full light-day from Earth this November, a first for anything humans built

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Earth’s orbit is so cluttered with junk that one chain of crashes could seal off whole orbits

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China set the first test flight of its new moon rocket for this month

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SpaceX flew its Starship a 13th time and set it down intact in the Indian Ocean for the first time

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Amazon is racing an FCC deadline to orbit half its internet satellites, with only 78 of 3,236 up

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A European probe and a NASA spacecraft will chase asteroid Apophis when it buzzes Earth in 2029

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Japan’s Hayabusa2 is set to buzz a spinning asteroid far from home

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SpaceX launched a robotic mechanic built to grab and refuel dying satellites

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NASA may give its spare Mars rover a second life on the Moon

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A dead NASA satellite is falling back to Earth, and engineers can’t rule out debris on the ground

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SpaceX launched Starship on its 13th flight days after an engine abort scrubbed the try

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