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NASA punts Mars Sample Return decision to the next administration
Anyone hoping for a clear path forward this year for NASA's imperiled Mars Sample Return mission will have to wait a little longer.
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NASA eyes SpaceX, Blue Origin to cut Mars rock retrieval costs
NASA announced Tuesday it may turn to Elon Musk's SpaceX or Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin to help reduce the soaring costs of returning Martian rocks collected by the Perseverance rover to Earth.
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US company Firefly Aerospace to launch for moon next week
US company Firefly Aerospace said Tuesday it is aiming to launch a lander to the moon next week under an experimental NASA program that partners with the commercial sector to reduce costs.
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NASA proposes cheaper, quicker way to get Mars rocks and soil to Earth
NASA is pitching a cheaper and quicker way of getting rocks and soil back from Mars, after seeing its original plan swell to $11 billion.
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Coordinating risk assessments for radiation in outer space
In the next few decades, crewed missions to the moon and Mars will likely become frequent. One of the main challenges faced by these future missions will be the need to protect astronauts from the intense radiation of outer ...
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SpaceX knocks out launch from Cape Canaveral
SpaceX sent up the second launch of the year from the Space Coast on Monday afternoon.
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Jan 7, 2025
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Bezos's Blue Origin targets Friday for first orbital launch
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin will launch its first orbital rocket "no earlier than Friday", it said, a pivotal moment in the commercial space race currently dominated by Elon Musk's SpaceX.
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Jan 7, 2025
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Relativistic electron beam could propel probe to Alpha Centauri, study suggests
Getting a spacecraft to another star is a monumental challenge. However, that doesn't stop people from working on it. The most visible groups currently doing so are Breakthrough Starshot and the Tau Zero Foundation, both ...
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Jan 6, 2025
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New rocket, new spacecraft and new moon landers on tap for 2025
The Space Coast is set for another busy year in 2025 with new moon missions, new spacecraft and the debut of a new rocket.
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Jan 6, 2025
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Hidden 'shapes' within plasma beams may boost next-generation space rockets
Go faster, farther, more efficiently. That's the goal driving spacecraft propulsion engineers like Chen Cui, a new assistant professor at the University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied Science. Cui is exploring ...
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Jan 6, 2025
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As the US and China race to the moon, these loopholes in space law could cause conflict
Outer space is infinite, but that hasn't stopped humans trying to impose their laws on it. There are more ways for people to travel to space than ever before, and the next few decades are likely to see the US and China sending ...
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Jan 6, 2025
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SpaceX tackles Space Coast's 1st launch of the year
After a record year of launches, SpaceX kicked things off again with the first mission of 2025 on Friday night.
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Jan 6, 2025
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Bezos's Blue Origin poised for first orbital launch next week
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos's company Blue Origin is poised to launch its first orbital rocket next week, marking a pivotal moment in the commercial space race currently dominated by Elon Musk's SpaceX.
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Jan 5, 2025
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Using an oil industry framework to map space resources
Cracking the chicken-and-egg problem of utilizing resources in space has been a difficult challenge for over half a century. Getting enough infrastructure built up is necessary to collect those resources effectively, but ...
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Jan 3, 2025
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SpaceX launch on final day of 2024 raises Space Coast tally to 93 for the year
SpaceX put the final countdown in the books for the Space Coast early Tuesday, adding one more to the record pace of launches for the year.
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Jan 3, 2025
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NASA anticipates lunar findings from next-generation retroreflector
Apollo astronauts set up mirror arrays, or "retroreflectors," on the moon to accurately reflect laser light beamed at them from Earth with minimal scattering or diffusion. Retroreflectors are mirrors that reflect the incoming ...
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Jan 2, 2025
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Humans will soon be able to mine on the moon—but should we? Four questions to consider
By the end of this decade, nations and private companies may well be mining the surface of the moon.
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Jan 2, 2025
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New Glenn NG-1 rocket completes a hotfire test
Blue Origin has achieved an important milestone with its New Glenn NG-1 rocket, successfully completing a 24-second hotfire of the rocket's BE-4 engines in preparation for an expected test flight in the coming days.
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Jan 2, 2025
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A long-term lunar infrastructure hub named after the object that created the moon
Getting back to the moon is the primary goal of NASA's Artemis program, but what do we do once we get there? That is the challenge tackled by a group of students at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, who wrote a ...
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Jan 2, 2025
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How to catch the Quadrantids, the first meteor shower of 2025
When the Quadrantid meteor shower peaks on Friday, it will be the year's first chance to see fireballs in the sky.
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Jan 1, 2025
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