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[ad_1] The race to provide high-speed internet from satellites is well underway – but another, more ambitious competition, to connect directly from space to devices like smartphones, began in earnest earlier this year. The potential untapped market — which hinges on, but extends beyond, sending a text via space — …

[ad_1] A map of the company’s expansion plans at NASA’s Stennis space center in Mississippi. Relativity Space Relativity Space, which 3D-prints rockets, said Tuesday that it signed a deal to expand its presence at NASA’s Stennis Space Center in Mississippi and create one of the country’s largest rocket engine test …

[ad_1] SpaceX returned its fourth operational crew mission from the International Space Station on Friday, with the quartet of astronauts splashing down in the company’s capsule off the coast of Florida. The company’s Crew Dragon spacecraft “Freedom” undocked from the ISS at around noon ET to begin the trip back …

[ad_1] From left: Artist renderings of the launches of an RS1 rocket and a Vulcan rocket. ABL Space; United Launch Alliance Amazon is swapping rides for the first prototype satellites for its Project Kuiper internet network, the company announced Wednesday, a move that delays launching the pair of spacecraft to …

[ad_1] Dennis Tito, most widely known as being the first space tourist back in mid-2001. Wikipedia Entrepreneur Dennis Tito and his wife Akiko purchased seats on a private trip with SpaceX’s Starship rocket, the third such spaceflight Elon Musk’s venture has announced to date. Tito – 82, and famous for …

[ad_1] The S-CLASS platform, designed for missions for a wide variety of government and commercial customers. York Space Systems Spacecraft manufacturer York Space Systems won a Pentagon contact worth up to $200 million, announced Thursday, to build experimental satellites for the military’s Space Development Agency (SDA). Known as the T1DES …

[ad_1] [The livestream began at 8:30 a.m. ET. Please refresh the page if you do not see the video player above.] SpaceX is set to launch four people to the International Space Station from Florida on Wednesday, as Elon Musk’s company keeps up a steady pace of crewed missions. Known …

[ad_1] One of the company’s spacecraft in orbit. York Space Spacecraft manufacturer York Space Systems is selling a majority stake in the company to private equity firm AE Industrial Partners at an enterprise valuation of $1.125 billion, CNBC has learned. The deal, announced on Tuesday, makes York the latest space …

[ad_1] This 1990 photograph shows the Hubble Space Telescope being deployed from the space shuttle Discovery on mission STS-31. Source: NASA SpaceX and billionaire astronaut Jared Isaacman are teaming up with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to study whether a private mission could extend the life of the famed …

[ad_1] NASA’s giant Artemis 1 moon rocket is rolled back to the Vehicle Assembly Building off its lauchpad, after postponing the much-anticipated mission a third time due to the arrival of Hurricane Ian and other technical problems, in Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S. September 27, 2022.  Michael Weekes Jr | Reuters …