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NASA's Swift Observatory Set to Reenter After Failed Commercial Rescue

Heightened solar activity expanded Earth's upper atmosphere, increasing drag enough to make the satellite unrecoverable.

SpaceX Launches 27 Starlink Satellites as Starship Readies Tower Catch Test

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SpaceX and Tesla Create Independent Committees to Vet Possible Merger

Solar Superstorm Locally Accelerated Multi‑MeV Electrons Inside Earth’s 'Impenetrable' Radiation Barrier

Pentagon Watchdog Declines Probe After Starlink Slowdown That Hindered Ukraine

Voyager 1 Restores Contact After Two‑Day Silence as Team Probes Thruster Fault

DIA Says China Has Tripled Its ISR Fleet and Is Building On‑Orbit Weapons

Startup’s Artificial Sun Test Illuminates California Desert and Raises Safety and Oversight Questions

Atlantic Airways Orders Two More Airbus A320neo Jets

NASA Ends Swift Observatory Mission as Telescope Falls Toward Reentry

OBRIA NANO Test Satellite Becomes Operational in Orbit

Falcon 9 from Vandenberg Set to Launch 27 Starlink Satellites Late Monday Night

Starlink’s Push to Become a U.S. Mobile Carrier Tests Timelines and Costs

Reich Urges Government Control of SpaceX and Starlink; Musk Replies With Threat of Prison

Air Force Tests SpaceX Starfall to Deliver Survival Kits From Orbit

NASA Recasts Artemis III as 2027 Crewed Orbital Docking Test

SpaceX Reportedly In Talks to Lease 80,000 U.S. Cell Sites

National Academies Identifies Four Nonpolar Moon Sites for Short Crewed Sorties

Russian Military Satellite Makes Unconsented Close Approach To ICEYE Radar Satellite

SpaceX Flies Starfall Capsule Again in Air Force Rocket Cargo Test