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Launches, spacecraft, satellites, exploration programs and the engineering that carries people and instruments beyond Earth.
SpaceX has asked to place 100,000 Gen3 satellites into 20 orbital shells split between…
An exoplanet 124 light-years away may harbour a global ocean beneath a hydrogen-rich…
Titan has rivers, rainfall, lakes and a slow hydrological cycle exactly like Earth's…
Voyager 1 crossed into interstellar space in 2012 and Voyager 2 followed in 2018, yet…
In 2012 a research team spoofed a drone out of the sky over a New Mexico missile range…
Spoofing a GPS receiver is worse than jamming it because the victim never knows
Todd Humphreys and his University of Texas team steered an $80 million superyacht off…
In July 2026, a Miami startup called City Labs sent a softball-sized CubeSat carrying a…
Within hours of reaching microgravity, astronauts’ body fluids shift toward the head…
On the journey to the Moon, dark-adapted Apollo crews averaged one unexplained flash of…
