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

By Cassian Holt

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NASA just awarded $1 billion in lunar contracts to Blue Origin, Firefly, Astrolab, and Lunar Outpost — locking in the landers, rovers, and drones for a permanent moon base

By Cassian Holt

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NASA just mapped a permanent moon base spanning hundreds of square miles by 2036 — with hopping drones, new lunar rovers, and a crew living there by 2030

By Cassian Holt

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Russia will begin sea trials this year on the Khabarovsk — a new submarine built to carry the Poseidon nuclear torpedo, designed to drown coastlines in radioactive waves

By Alexander Clark

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Amazon’s Leo satellite internet network just crossed 300 spacecraft in orbit — closing the gap on Starlink and targeting commercial service across the U.S. this year

By Cassian Holt

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The Starlink megaconstellation just crossed 10,000 active satellites in orbit — more spacecraft above our heads than the rest of humanity has ever launched combined

By Cassian Holt

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A Falcon 9 booster just landed for the 28th time on a drone ship — setting a record for the most-reused piece of hardware ever to reach space

By Cassian Holt

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NASA’s Psyche just skipped past Mars at 12,000 miles an hour — using the planet’s gravity to sling itself toward a metal asteroid worth more than Earth’s economy

By Cassian Holt

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China just raced a cargo ship to its space station in a matter of hours — a lightning-fast docking that beat the old multi-day approach for resupply

By Cassian Holt

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SpaceX just launched its 100th rocket of the year — keeping up a relentless pace of roughly one liftoff every 36 hours, a cadence no one has matched

By Cassian Holt

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China is racing to loft hundreds more satellites this year for its Starlink rival — the GuoWang megaconstellation built to blanket the planet in state-run broadband

By Cassian Holt

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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