The New Shepard rocket from Blue Origin, which brought 92 people on trips to the edge of space, will cease flying for at least two years as the company prioritizes NASA contracts.
Category: Space and Astronomy
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How to View the Artemis II Moon Launch
The first crewed mission around the moon in more than 50 years is coming up. Here’s how to see it at sites in and around the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
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How Activists in Iran Are Using Starlink to Stay Online
Activists spent years preparing for a communications blackout in Iran, smuggling in Starlink satellite internet systems and making digital shutdowns harder for the authorities to enforce.
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2026 May Be the Year of the Mega I.P.O.
If SpaceX, OpenAI and Anthropic go public, they will unleash gushers of cash for Silicon Valley and Wall Street.
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Starlink Users in Iran Get Free Internet Access, Nonprofit Says
Under a near-total communications blackout, users of Elon Musk’s satellite service have gotten online without paying, an organization that works on web access said.
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In a First, a Wheelchair User Joins a Short Flight to Space
A paraplegic engineer was part of a crew that made a suborbital journey on a spacecraft operated by Jeff Bezos’ private company, Blue Origin.
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Elon Musk’s SpaceX Valued at $800 Billion, as It Prepares to Go Public
A sale of insider shares at $421 a share would make Mr. Musk’s rocket company the most valuable private company in the world, as it readies for a possible initial public offering next year.
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A Watch That Works as Well on Earth as It Did in Space
Omega’s Speedmaster, worn by Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong on their 1969 journey to the moon, gets an update.
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Blue Origin Launches NASA’s ESCAPADE Mission to Mars: How to Watch
This will be the second flight of the orbital rocket from Jeff Bezos’s space company and will include a key test of whether it can land a booster stage for later reuse.
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Chasing the Elusive Southern Lights in Tasmania
A writer returns to his native Australian island, where seeing the aurora takes more work than in the north, home of mass-market lights tourism. But the awe is the same.
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NASA Gets Moon Lander Plan B’s From SpaceX and Blue Origin
As NASA worries that China will win the next moon race, Elon Musk and his company tangled with critics.
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Musk Attacks NASA Leader Over Threat to Reconsider Lunar Contract
The billionaire’s swipes at Sean Duffy are the latest example of his tangling with members of the Trump administration.