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NASA delays Crew-13 launch after finding a leak on SpaceX’s Dragon
An oxidizer leak in the propulsion system of the Crew-13 Dragon spacecraft has pushed NASA and SpaceX off their planned launch date to the International Space Station, and…
NASA’s Swift telescope is back online, but the clock is running out
Two of Swift’s three science instruments came back on Aug. 26. The spacecraft carrying them is still falling out of the sky. That’s the honest summary of where…
NASA’s Roman telescope is off to hunt the universe’s darkest secrets
Seven minutes. That’s how long it took after liftoff for controllers at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, to start pulling telemetry off the Nancy Grace…
NASA’s Roman Space Telescope is sealed up and ready to hunt thousands of alien worlds
On Aug. 21, NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope disappeared from view. Teams at the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at Kennedy Space Center in Florida closed a 43-foot…
SpaceX is spending $100B on a second Starbase in Louisiana [2027 Build]
Seven years of scouting, and the answer was an old Exxon property in the swamps of Vermilion Parish. SpaceX says it’s putting $100 billion into a second spaceport…
Trump’s new space transportation policy wants a spaceport built on federal land
The number to remember is 1,000. That’s how many launches and reentries per year the US space transportation ranges are supposed to handle by 2030, according to the…
Starcloud lands $250M more for orbital data centers as rockets get scarce
Starcloud has an FCC application on file for 88,000 spacecraft. It has 25 employees. That gap tells you most of what you need to know about the company’s…
SpaceX left a 60-foot scar on the Moon and ULA finally named a new boss
A dead Falcon 9 upper stage punched a crater roughly 60 feet across and less than 10 feet deep into the lunar surface near Einstein Crater, and NASA’s…
NASA finally photographed the crater a SpaceX Falcon 9 punched into the Moon
A rocket stage that left Earth in January 2025 hit the Moon on Aug. 5, and it took NASA six days of orbital patience to get a clean…
