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Japan reschedules H3 rocket launch to March 6, after Feb. 17 abort
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's space agency said it plans to launch what would be its first new medium-lift rocket in three decades on March 6, more than two weeks after the initially scheduled launch was ...
Mar 03, 2023
Latest four-member SpaceX crew docks with International Space Station
By Steve Gorman (Reuters) - A SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule arrived safely at the International Space Station (ISS) early on Friday, carrying two U.S. astronauts, a Russian cosmonaut and a United Arab Em...
Mar 03, 2023
For toothed whales, sound production is all in the nose
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Dolphins, porpoises, killer whales, sperm whales and other toothed whales produce an array of sounds - to find prey employing a sonar-like system called echolocat...
Mar 02, 2023
Factbox-Elon Musk’s missed deadlines for FDA approval of Neuralink brain-chip trials
By Rachael Levy (Reuters) - Several times since 2019, billionaire Elon Musk has predicted his brain-chip company, Neuralink, would soon secure FDA approval for human trials. But the company's applicat...
Mar 02, 2023
Factbox-Neuralink, other brain-chip makers face long road to FDA approval
By Marisa Taylor (Reuters) - Neuralink, founded in 2016, has yet to receive FDA approval to test its brain chip in humans. Other implant makers have spent years or decades on research to secure U.S. r...
Mar 02, 2023
China gears up to compete with SpaceX’s Starlink this year
BEIJING (Reuters) - China's military-industrial complex is set to start building its first constellation of very low-Earth orbit (LEO) satellites later this year, the latest Chinese bid to catch up wi...
Mar 02, 2023
SpaceX launches latest space station crew to orbit for NASA
By Joe Skipper and Steve Gorman CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - Elon Musk's rocket company SpaceX launched a four-person crew on a trip to the International Space Station early on Thursday, with a...
Mar 02, 2023
SpaceX ready to retry launching NASA’s next space station crew
By Joe Skipper and Steve Gorman CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - Elon Musk's rocket company SpaceX was ready to try again at sending NASA's next long-duration crew of the International Space Statio...
Mar 01, 2023
Scientists uncover new Easter Island moai statue in dry lake bed
SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Scientists have found a previously undiscovered moai on Easter Island, uncovering the large stone statue in a dry lake bed on the tiny, remote island in the middle of the Pacific....
Mar 01, 2023
Studies show how asteroid-bashing spacecraft was ‘phenomenally successful’
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - NASA's DART spacecraft slammed into the asteroid Dimorphos at a spot between two boulders during last September's first test of a planetary defense system, sendin...
Mar 01, 2023
