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'A pretty significant setback': How Blue Origin's rocket explosion affects NASA's moon plans
By Josh Dinner published
The explosion of Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket is a big setback for the spaceflight company and will have implications for NASA's plans to return astronauts to the surface of the moon.
Starlink satellite train: how to see and track it in the night sky
By Daisy Dobrijevic last updated
Reference Starlink satellites are visible from Earth, you just need to know when and where to look.

Starlink satellites: Facts, tracking and impact on astronomy
By Tereza Pultarova last updated
Reference Starlink satellites have been developed by SpaceX to provide internet to remote locations. Here we explore the controversial megaconstellation in more detail.

Atlas V rocket launches 29 Amazon Leo internet satellites to orbit from Florida (video)
By Josh Dinner last updated
A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket launched 29 Amazon Leo internet satellites to orbit on Friday night (May 28).

China's Shenzhou 21 astronauts return to Earth after being briefly 'stranded', wrapping up record-breaking mission (video)
By Mike Wall published
China's Shenzhou 21 astronauts returned to Earth on Friday (May 29), wrapping up a record-breaking, and very eventful, space mission.

SpaceX launches 29 Starlink satellites from Florida just hours after Blue Origin rocket explosion (video)
By Robert Z. Pearlman last updated
SpaceX launched 29 Starlink satellites from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Friday (May 29), about 12 hours after Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket exploded on a different pad at the site.

Incredible videos show Blue Origin rocket explosion could be seen from hundreds of miles away
By Josh Dinner published
Blue Origin's powerful New Glenn rocket exploded during testing Thursday night, May 28, blasting flames and debris high into the sky in a display visible across wide swaths of Florida.

Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket explodes in massive fireball during prelaunch test
By Mike Wall last updated
Blue Origin's fourth New Glenn rocket exploded during a prelaunch engine test on Thursday night (May 28). It could be a big setback for the company and for NASA's moon ambitions.

Companies like SpaceX want electromagnetic catapults on the moon. Could they be used as weapons?
By Leonard David published
A new report stresses the strategic and security implications of placing mass drivers on the moon by arguing that these launchers could serve as valuable first strike weapons systems.

NASA is hatching a 'fast-paced plan' to boost this space telescope. But first, they'll have to find it
By Mike Wall published
NASA is working hard to predict where in Earth orbit its Swift space telescope will be this fall, so that a private spacecraft can meet up with the observatory and boost its altitude.
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