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Newswire

NASA Chief Warns China May Block Moon South Pole Access

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman warns that China’s delayed Chang’e 7 mission poses a strategic risk by potentially allowing Beijing to…

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Business

NASA Chief Prioritizes ‘Good Deals’ With Global Partners

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman is prioritizing high-value international partnerships to secure critical lunar real estate, shifting focus from national prestige…

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Newswire

How a 300-Year-Old Tool Helps Stranded Astronauts Return Home

As deep space exploration moves beyond low Earth orbit, reliance on Earth-based satellite navigation diminishes significantly. Astronauts must increasingly master…

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Business

Can a Seattle firm capture 15,000 years of solar wind in 4 hours?

Helium-3 is trapped in the lunar regolith because the Moon lacks a magnetic field to deflect solar wind, resulting in…

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AI & Tech

SpaceX leaves mark on Moon; ULA names new CEO

China’s Long March rocket family recovered quickly from an August 10 failure, with a Long March 12 launching successfully six…

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Culture

I watched the Moon’s shadow race across Spain’s heartland

Total solar eclipses are rare cosmic alignments where the Sun, Moon, and Earth line up perfectly, and the author has…

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Gadgets

Radiation-blocking vest survives round trip to the Moon

Solar storms pose a serious radiation hazard for space travelers, as demonstrated by the 1972 event, and current spacecraft lack…

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Gadgets

Peak Design bags add clever built-in hooks

Peak Design launched its new City Line collection of six lightweight urban bags, including backpacks, totes, crossbody bags, and a…

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AI & Tech

How I Built a Clock That Never Needs Setting

The author was frustrated with cheap LED clocks that require manual resetting after power outages and Daylight Saving Time changes.…

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Business

SpaceX IPO turns thousands of staff into millionaires

Elon Musk revealed that SpaceX's record-breaking IPO has turned thousands of employees into millionaires through stock grants, including production line…

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Business

NASA Funds Hardware for ‘Skyfall’ Mars Helicopter Mission

NASA awarded a $13 million subcontract to Firefly Aerospace to build the aeroshell for the nuclear-powered Skyfall spacecraft, which is…

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Health

Startup 3D-Prints Kidney and Liver Tissue in Space

Auxilium Biotechnologies successfully bioprinted kidney and liver tissue aboard the ISS, marking a first for both tissue types in orbit,…

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Business

City Labs Debuts First Commercial Nuclear Satellite

City Labs has launched BOHR, the first commercial nuclear-powered satellite, aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9, using a tritium-based "betavoltaic" battery…

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BigTech Companies

Ars Live recap: When will NASA’s crucial big rockets finally be ready?

Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket failure in late May has raised concerns about NASA's Artemis IV timeline, as the upgraded…

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Business

NASA Chief Lauds Blue Origin’s Progress After Rocket Failure

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman praised Blue Origin's handling of its New Glenn rocket explosion, noting the company's substantial recovery efforts…

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Gadgets

NASA may launch nuclear backup Mars rover to Moon

NASA is evaluating a plan to send the full-scale engineering model of the Perseverance rover, nicknamed "Promise," to the Moon's…

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Business

NASA’s $500M Stage Adapter After 13 Years Justifies Cancellations

NASA cancelled key Artemis hardware projects,including the Exploration Upper Stage and Lunar Gateway habitation module,to pivot toward establishing a base…

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Newswire

Submarine Discovers Strange Ocean Floor Object, Then Vanishes

In 2022, the autonomous underwater vehicle Ran was deployed beneath Antarctica's Dotson Ice Shelf, mapping 54 square miles of the…

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AI & Tech

NASA taps Eric Schmidt’s rocket firm for Mars mission, rivaling SpaceX

NASA has hired Relativity Space, now controlled by former Google executive Eric Schmidt, to build and launch the Aeolus mission…

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BigTech Companies

Why $1 Trillion Is an Absurd Amount of Money

Elon Musk has become the world's first trillionaire, a sum so vast that counting a trillion seconds would require starting…

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