SpaceX achieves testing milestone under the shadow of a government shutdown
Commercial Crew is forging ahead SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon, which is set to fly in February. Image: SpaceX
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FCC slams spaceflight company with $900,000 fine over illegal satellite launch
Plus: more paperwork An Indian PSLV rocket, which was used to launch the Swarm satellites|Photo: Indian Space Research Organization Space
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Listen to the very first sounds recorded on Mars
InSight rumbles with alien Martian wind. The rumbling probably represents vibrations in the solar panel and surrounding rocks.NASA/JPL-Caltech Last week
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Trump’s Space Force may come with a big price tag, and no one can agree how to structure it
A lot of debate this week over how to make the thing An Atlas V rocket poised to launch a
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Rocket Lab sets date for first commercial launch of its Electron rocket
It’s business time for ‘It’s Business Time’ Rocket Lab’s Electron rocket takes off from New Zealand during its second test
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China’s spiraling space station will plunge to Earth in about a week
Tiangong-1’s final countdown After a couple years of anticipation, China’s first human space station — Tiangong-1 — will drop out
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