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Boeing’s Starliner crew spacecraft won’t dock with Space Station as planned after missing target orbit
Boeing’s Starliner CST-100 crew spacecraft got off to a great start on its first-ever launch to the International Space Station…
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Terradepth raises $8 million to build a fleet of autonomous deep-ocean data robots
Plenty of the ocean remains unexplored, even though it’s a huge trove of potentially valuable information. Current methods for mapping…
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Blue Origin moves closer to human spaceflight with 12th New Shepard launch
Jeff Bezos -founded Blue Origin has recorded another successful mission for its New Shepard sub-orbital launch vehicle, which is a…
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Alphabet’s X details a garbage-sorting bot that’s part of its plan to make robots an everyday thing
Alphabet subsidiary X, which is the former Google X, focuses exclusively on ambitious “moonshots,” or applications of tech you might…
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SpaceX starts building out its production Starlink constellation
There’s literally a lot more stuff in space than there was last week – or at least, the number of…
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Army photogrammetry technique makes 3D aerial maps in minutes
Aerial imagery is a common asset in military matters, but 3D maps can be difficult to collect on short notice…
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D-Wave sticks with its approach to quantum computing
Earlier this month, at the WebSummit conference in Lisbon, D-Wave and Volkswagen teamed up to manage a fleet of buses…
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Stingray-inspired spacecraft could eventually probe the atmosphere of Venus
NASA’s next Venus probe could be an atmosphere-skimming robotic stingray designed by the University of Buffalo. UB’s CRASH Lab, which…
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SpaceX launches re-flown fairing for the first time and breaks a Falcon 9 booster re-use record
SpaceX successfully launched its first batch of production Starlink satellites today, sending 60 of the small satellites to their target…
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