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Firefly's Blue Ghost lunar lander leaves Earth orbit to head for the moon
Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lunar lander is now headed for the moon after firing its engines to send it out of Earth orbit ...
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SpaceX's Starship spacecraft destroyed in mega rocket launch
The gargantuan rocket blasted off from SpaceX's Boca Chica, Texas, manufacturing and flight test facility on the Gulf Coast at 5:37 p.m. Eastern Time, firing up 33 methane-burning Raptor engines ...
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Stoke Space brings in $260M for further development of its fully reusable rocket
The funding round comes just weeks after Stoke’s successful test firing of its first-stage Zenith rocket engine on a test stand at the company’s facility in Moses Lake, Wash. That hot-fire ...
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Newly-launched Indian satellite left stranded by propulsion problem
India just launched its first mission of 2025. The Indian Space Research Organisation 's (ISRO) Geosynchronous Satellite ...
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Mars in 30 days? Russia unveils prototype of plasma rocket engine
A laboratory prototype of a plasma electric rocket engine based on a magnetic plasma accelerator has been produced by Rosatom ...
Firefly’s Lunar Lander Captures Haunting Earth Eclipse From Space
On January 18, the team at Firefly carried out Blue Ghost’s first engine burn, firing up the lander’s thrusters and main ...
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Reusable rocket startup Stoke Space raises $260 million in Series C round
Stoke Space successfully completed test firing of its first-stage engine ... developed and tested a full-flow staged combustion rocket engine, known for its efficiency. "At the end of the ...
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Blue Origin launches New Glenn rocket, the company’s first SpaceX contender
After reaching space, the rocket shed its payload fairing, a shell-like structure designed to shield satellites during launch. And the second stage continued firing its engines until it reached ...