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Ars Technica : space
18 august
19h01
Against all odds, SpaceX finally tugs Starship into port after 24 days at sea
Stephen Clark
A team of SpaceX engineers is on their way to conduct additional analysis on the vehicle.
16h30
The United States is about to wake up to the threat from China’s space program
Eric Berger
One big question: Will China assert territorial rights where its rover explores?
17 august
20h23
The Moon’s shadow raced across the heart of Spain, and I was there to see it
Stephen Clark
Here’s what it was like watching a total solar eclipse 90 minutes north of Madrid.
11h00
Satellite operators are in panic mode due to a worsening launch crisis
Eric Berger
What happens if the Falcon rockets stop flying?
15 august
15h46
Ukraine strikes major Russian rocket factory with cruise missiles
Eric Berger
Flamingo missiles were used. A good achievement.
14 august
16h29
Policy experts: Europe stuck between rock and a hard place on launch
Eric Berger
It turns out that the economics of rocket reuse are pretty, pretty good.
11h00
Rocket Report: Rocket Lab shows off its flexibility; Blue Origin’s two-pad plan
Eric Berger
We’ve never seen launch capacity so constrained.
13 august
19h12
Virgin Galactic wants your help naming its new Delta class spaceship
Robert Pearlman
Will it be the VSS... Horizon, Explorer, Ascend or Apeiron?
13h48
We’ve flown a radiation-blocking vest to the Moon and back, and it worked
Jacek Krywko
Let’s shield the astronauts instead of the spacecraft.
10 august
15h05
One of China’s workhorse rockets just exploded in flight
Eric Berger
If the failure involved the YF-100 engine, there are broader concerns for China’s space program.
08 august
11h30
The first self-driving vehicle on Mars has proven to be a smashing success
Eric Berger
About 90 percent of the distance driven by Perseverance has been autonomous.
06 august
18h20
Blue Origin narrowing in on root cause of catastrophic rocket accident
Eric Berger
The anomaly originated at the main oxygen valve on one of the BE-4 engines.
05 august
13h59
SpaceX spooks investors with debut earnings report
George Hammond, Financial Times
Shares slide in pre-market trading even as group says its quarterly revenues nearly doubled.
03 august
19h21
Lego deploys Hubble Space Telescope as detailed desktop model
Robert Pearlman
The orbiting observatory in minifigure scale.
14h41
SpaceX is set to acquire 130,000 acres of marshland in southern Louisiana
Eric Berger
A Louisiana launch site would offer several significant advantages.
01 august
18h20
Here’s how engineers plan to save the satellite sent to save NASA’s Swift mission
Stephen Clark
We believe that a capture of Swift, an attempted capture of Swift, is very much in the cards.
31 july
10h30
Rocket Report: New launch rule may limit environmental regulations, Falcon 9 to hit Moon
Eric Berger
America won the first Space Race, and we can do it again.
30 july
17h35
Space Force-backed mission does its best impression of Top Gun in orbit
Stephen Clark
Dogfighting in space doesn’t quite have the drama of an aerial dogfight.
29 july
17h24
Actually, Starliner might fly into space this year
Eric Berger
We’re feeling pretty good about that, Boeing CEO Kelly Ortberg said.
28 july
22h09
Attitude control issues leave Swift rescue mission spinning in orbit
Stephen Clark
Preliminary investigation shows that two of Link’s three reaction wheels currently are not operable.
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