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  • Commercial Space Station Startup Reaches Orbit
    November 5, 2025

    Commercial Space Station Startup Reaches Orbit

    Vast's Haven Demo mission successfully reached orbit, marking a key step toward privately owned space stations and validating the company's spacecraft design under actual spaceflight conditions. The company is pursuing an iterative development strategy, with plans to advance from the Haven Demo t...

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  • SpaceX's Starship Faces Same Critical Flaw That Doomed NASA Shuttles
    August 27, 2025

    SpaceX's Starship Faces Same Critical Flaw That Doomed NASA Shuttles

    SpaceX aims to catch returning spacecraft mid-air using mechanical arms to enable rapid reusability, a technique demonstrated with the Super Heavy booster. The primary challenge is perfecting Starship's heat shield to prevent tile loss and damage, requiring extensive testing and design improvemen...

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