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Do we really need so many satellites?
Space, despite its vastness, is becoming a bit cramped — at least in the low-orbit band where these…
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NASA astronaut Sunita Williams to address Earth from orbiting international Space Station
Meanwhile, crew of the Polaris Dawn the Elon Musk-led private charted spaceflight created history w…
ANI
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Space startup Reflect Orbital plans to sell "sunlight on demand" — how will it work?
Reflect Orbital's innovative project aims to use satellites with reflective mirrors to extend sunli…
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Mission 100 pc success, rocket placed satellite in precise orbit: ISRO chief Somanath
The ISRO chief expressed happiness on the successful launch from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in …
ANI
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Forget distant fly-bys of giant rocks—this plane-sized asteroid will come within 1.7 million km of Earth this week!
Come Friday, this near-Earth object will make its closest approach to our planet in a decade!
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Bengaluru-based Pixxel Space plans to mine asteroids for building settlements in space
Satellites can look for ice on asteroids which can be used as fuel by splitting it into hydrogen an…
PTI
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Astronomers find planet that seems too humongous to be orbiting its parent star!
A group of astronomers has identified a planet over 13 times the mass of Earth in orbit around an u…
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China takes on Elon Musk's Starlink with hundreds of low-orbit satellites
A Chinese company plans to launch the first in a network of 300 very-low-earth-orbit satellites in …
Polly Thompson
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ISRO receives Indo-US jointly developed NISAR satellite
NISAR, an Earth-observation satellite, is being jointly developed by the National Aeronautics and S…
ANI
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Amazon launches partnership with rival SpaceX to send competing satellites into orbit
Amazon and SpaceX have entered into a contract to conduct three Falcon 9 launches to support Amazon…
Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert
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NASA backs Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin and others with over $400 million funding to build commercial space stations
NASA plans for a “robust low-Earth orbit economy” includes coordination with private industry to…
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NASA faces orbital debris threat, greatest challenge of our era
NASA takes the threat of orbital debris seriously as these objects can endanger spacecraft, jeopard…
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Rise in the number of satellites are threatening orbital space around Earth, say scientists
The rapid growth of the anthropogenic space object population, including satellite mega-constellati…
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A dead Russian spacecraft almost collided with a NASA satellite. The crash could have sent 7,500 bits of debris rocketing around Earth.
A dead Russian spacecraft almost crashed into a NASA satellite. The collision would have sent debr…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen,Ellyn Lapointe
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NASA hails a 'significant milestone' for building a 'low-Earth orbit economy' as it approves the crew for Axiom Space's first private mission to the ISS
NASA and its international partners approved the astronaut crew for Axiom Space's first private mis…
Zahra Tayeb
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In a first-ever for space junk, Dish Network was fined $150,000 for leaving a retired satellite to orbit indefinitely in the wrong place
Dish left a satellite in the wrong disposal orbit, the FCC said, noting it was the first enforcemen…
Kelsey Vlamis
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Richard Branson's Virgin Orbit gets green light for first orbital space launch from UK — and will use a repurposed Boeing 747 for the mission
Virgin Orbit's Boeing 747 aircraft, named Cosmic Girl, will fly 35,000 feet and release a rocket fr…
Kate Duffy
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Richard Branson's Virgin Orbit is set to launch the first orbital rocket from UK soil on Monday. Watch live as the rocket drops from a Boeing 747.
Virgin Orbit crew will proceed cautiously around the launch in case winds or lightning set in, its …
Kate Duffy
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This year's first supermoon, the 'Pink Moon,' will rise on Monday. Here's how to spot the rare event.
Supermoons are rare full moons that occur when the moon is the closest it can get to Earth. Accordi…
Aylin Woodward
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From launch vehicles to space tourism, Indian space start-ups aim high
The Vikram-S rocket, developed over the past two years and built using 3-D printing technology, rea…