In Orbit You Have to Slow Down to Speed Up

Driving a spacecraft around a planet isn’t anything like driving on a planet. A physicist explains orbital navigation.
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First Australian-made rocket crashes after 14 seconds of flight in a failed attempt to reach orbit

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — The first Australian -made rocket to attempt to reach orbit from the country’s soil crashed after 14 seconds of flight on Wednesday. The rocket Eris, launched by Gilmour ...
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Can Canada Get Itself To Orbit? These Two Companies Are Trying To Make It Happen

Canada's NordSpace and ProtoSpace are driving the country's innovative space industry with the goal of achieving the first ...
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World’s most powerful rocket explained: How Starship will take humans to Moon and Mars

SpaceX’s Starship, the world’s most powerful rocket, completes final V2 test, prepares for Moon and Mars with a new, fully ...

Starship V3: The World’s Largest Rocket Is About to Get Even Bigger

Starship’s latest flight was another big success. SpaceX carried out several in-flight demonstrations to prepare for the ...
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Australia's Gilmour Space 'not going to give up' as it eyes 2nd orbital launch attempt in 2026

The Australian company Gilmour Space aims to make a second attempt to reach space in 2026, having turned a cow paddock into a ...
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Is there a rocket launch today? SpaceX Falcon 9 to carry NASA twin satellites to orbit

SpaceX will help NASA launch twin satellites into orbit aboard the company's Falcon 9 rocket. The satellites will observe how the sun's powerful activity interacts with our planet's magnetosphere. If ...