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There's a piece of Cold War infrastructure in the Mojave Desert that has been silent since September 16, 2025, and almost no one outside a small circle of deep space mission planners ha

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json { “content”: “ Texas A&M University has reactivated a mothballed NASA centrifuge to create what its operators describe as one of the most capable human space research facilities in the United States, filling a gap that has forced American researchers to run partial-gravity studies overseas for more than a decade. The Anthony Wood ’87 […]

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The four astronauts assigned to fly Artemis 2 around the moon have expressed confidence in the Orion spacecraft, but the mission’s true verdict won’t come from crew praise or simulator fidelity. It will come from the heat shield. When Orion slams back into Earth’s atmosphere at nearly 25,000 miles per hour, the redesigned thermal protection […]

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NASA has approved the Rosalind Franklin Support and Augmentation (ROSA) project and contracted SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy to launch the European Space Agency’s Mars rover in late 2028, even as the White House’s fiscal year 2027 budget proposal would zero out funding for the same project. The $175.7 million launch contract, announced April 16, commits the […]

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NASA has selected SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy to launch a European Mars rover, support for which the agency is once again proposing to cancel.

NorthStar Earth and Space plans to raise funds to expand the space-based sensor network behind its space situational awareness business by merging with Viking Acquisition Corp.

China’s Shenzhou-21 astronauts conducted an extravehicular activity outside the Tiangong space station Thursday, installing debris-protection hardware and inspecting the orbital outpost.

The Bay of Bengal and the Andaman Sea became the deadliest maritime corridor in South and Southeast Asia last year, with reports indicating nearly 900 Rohingya refugees dead or missing in 2025. The figure appears to mark the highest annual death toll for Rohingya sea crossings, a grim milestone that has led advocates to compare […]

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As the war in Gaza grinds past its second year, diplomatic efforts have repeatedly produced ceasefire frameworks that fail to translate into protection for civilians on the ground. The January 2025 truce — brokered with heavy US and Qatari involvement — offered the most concrete hope yet. But within weeks of its implementation, reports of […]

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