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SpaceX’s Falcon 9 grounded after failure dooms batch of Starlink satellites

Washington DC, US Reuters SpaceX’s workhorse Falcon 9 rocket was grounded by the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on Friday after one broke apart in space and doomed its payload of Starlink satellites, the first failure in more than seven years of a rocket relied upon by the global space industry. Roughly an hour after […]

Private US Moon lander launched half century after last Apollo lunar mission

Cape Canaveral, Florida Reuters A Moon lander built by Houston-based aerospace company Intuitive Machines was launched from Florida early on Thursday on a mission to conduct the first US lunar touchdown in more than a half century and the first by a privately owned spacecraft. The company’s Nova-C lander, dubbed Odysseus, lifted off shortly after […]

NASA to conduct first global water survey from space

US SWOT satellite2

Los Angeles, US Reuters A NASA-led international satellite mission was set for blastoff from Southern California early on Thursday on a major Earth science project to conduct a comprehensive survey of the world’s oceans, lakes and rivers for the first time. Dubbed SWOT, short for Surface Water and Ocean Topography, the advanced radar satellite is […]