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Stephen Clark Ars Technica

A Collision With Space Debris Leaves 3 Chinese Astronauts Stranded in Orbit

Wrapping up 204 days in orbit, three Chinese astronauts flew back to Earth aboard a Shenzhou spacecraft...

SpaceX’s Second-Gen Starship Signs Off With a Near-Perfect Test Flight

SpaceX closed a troubled but instructive chapter in its Starship rocket program Monday with a near-perfect test...

Taking These 50 Objects Out of Orbit Would Cut Danger From Space Junk in Half

A new listing of the 50 most concerning pieces of space debris in low-Earth orbit is dominated...

SpaceX Targets an Orbital Starship Flight with a Next-Gen Vehicle in 2026

It has been two weeks since SpaceX’s last Starship test flight, and engineers have diagnosed issues with...

A Top NASA Official Is Among Thousands of Staff Leaving the Agency

You can add another name to the thousands of employees leaving NASA as the Trump administration primes...

China Has Attempted What Might Be the First-Ever Orbital Refueling of a Satellite

Two Chinese satellites have rendezvoused with one another more than 20,000 miles above the Earth in what...

‘Major Anomaly’ Behind Latest SpaceX Starship Explosion

SpaceX's next Starship rocket exploded during a ground test in South Texas late Wednesday, dealing another blow...

Starship’s Latest Test Reveals New Problems for SpaceX to Solve

SpaceX made some progress on another test flight of the world’s most powerful rocket Tuesday, finally overcoming...