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Can NASA remain nonpartisan when basic spaceflight truths are shredded?
It looked like the final scene of a movie, the denouement of a long adventure in which the good guys […]
Rocket Report: ULA confirms cause of booster anomaly; Crew-10 launch on tap
The head of Poland’s space agency was fired over a bungled response to SpaceX debris falling over Polish territory. A […]
What’s behind the recent string of failures and delays at SpaceX?
SpaceX has long had a hard-charging culture. Is it now charging too hard? File photo of a Falcon 9 launch […]
The Starship program hits another speed bump with second consecutive failure
The flight plan going into Thursday’s mission called for sending Starship on a journey halfway around the world from Texas, […]
SpaceX readies a redo of last month’s ill-fated Starship test flight
The FAA has cleared SpaceX to launch Starship’s eighth test flight as soon as Monday. Ship 34, destined to launch […]
Rocket Report: Rocket Lab’s news blitz; Starship mishap blamed on vibrations
One Falcon 9 launched an Intuitive Machines lunar lander, an asteroid prospector, and a NASA science probe. Peter Beck, Rocket […]
Rocket Report: Another hiccup with SpaceX upper stage; Japan’s H3 starts strong
Vast’s schedule for deploying a mini-space station in low-Earth orbit was always ambitious. A stack of 21 Starlink internet satellites […]
Concern about SpaceX influence at NASA grows with new appointee
Like a lot of the rest of the federal government right now, NASA is reeling during the first turbulent days […]
Starlink profit growing rapidly as it faces a moment of promise and peril
Estimates of Starlink’s consumer revenues. Credit: Quilty Space Estimates of Starlink’s consumer revenues. Credit: Quilty Space Both of the new […]