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It's tempting to assume faster engines make faster spacecraft, but Parker Solar Probe's record 430,000 miles per hour came mostly from gravity: seven Venus flybys spent nearly seven years bending its orbit closer to the Sun, until the Sun's own pull accelerated it faster than any human-made object in history.
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In 1966, the Soviet chief designer who had beaten America to every space milestone died on an operating table in Moscow, and only then was his name printed in a newspaper — Sergei Korolev, whose identity had been a state secret so tight that even Yuri Gagarin only knew him as 'the Chief Designer'.
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In June 2026, a SpaceX Falcon 9 first stage designated B1085 lifted a 15,400-pound SiriusXM broadcasting satellite off a Cape Canaveral pad on its seventeenth flight — the same booster that had carried Crew-9 to the space station, Firefly's Blue Ghost lander toward the Moon, and nine separate Starlink batches into orbit
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Euclid, the European telescope built to map the dark universe billions of light-years away, spent a single 26-hour stretch staring into the crowded center of the Milky Way and resolved more than 60 million stars, handing NASA's Roman mission a reference map for the planet hunt it begins after launching in late August
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When the Soviet Venera 13 probe touched down on Venus in March 1982, it survived for 127 minutes in a 465-degree atmosphere that crushed it with the pressure of nearly a kilometre of ocean water, and in that time it scraped a soil sample, analysed it, and transmitted the first colour photographs ever taken from the surface of another planet.
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When NASA lost contact with the Pioneer 10 spacecraft in January 2003, it was more than 12 billion kilometres from Earth and still faintly transmitting on a 30-year-old transmitter weaker than a refrigerator bulb, and the final signal took eleven hours to crawl back across the void before fading into noise forever.
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MIT engineers just collapsed the oldest tradeoff in satellite propulsion — one tank, two thrusters, and a quiet rewrite of how cubesats are designed
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Five astronauts just spent hours hiding inside a Dragon capsule while the ISS leaked — and the real story isn't the hole, it's the argument NASA had with Roscosmos over a saw
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For more than half a century, theorists insisted that the Milky Way's central black hole had to be exhaling a wind, but the galactic center stubbornly hid the evidence — until a Northwestern team trained ALMA on Sagittarius A* and found a 45-degree cone of missing molecular gas pointing straight back at it
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In 2026, China put more than 100 space-computing organizations under a new Beijing committee, tying 12 AI satellites and a 1,000-POPS orbital supercomputer plan to the Five-Year Plan and the still-unsolved problem of moving data through orbit
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Australian telescope views sky in radio technicolor
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New millimeter-wavelength polarimetric camera to study the heavens
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Discovering the Treasures in Chandra's Archives
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Astronomers Celebrate Inauguration of Green Bank Observatory
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