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Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket lifts off from Florida in debut mission
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin launched its first New Glenn rocket early Thursday morning from Florida, an inaugural step into Earth's orbit to rival SpaceX in the satelli...
Jan 16, 2025
Blue Origin's debut New Glenn rocket fully fueled for next launch attempt
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) -Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin filled its New Glenn rocket with propellants on Thursday morning for its debut launch from Florida, the company's second attempt this week to...
Jan 16, 2025
India's ISRO carries out successful space docking mission
By Nivedita Bhattacharjee BENGALURU (Reuters) -India on Thursday became the fourth nation in the world to achieve space docking, a technological milestone that underscores its ambitions to expand its ...
Jan 16, 2025
Reusable rocket startup Stoke Space raises $260 million in Series C round
(Reuters) - Stoke Space raised $260 million in a late-stage funding round to finalize the development of its Nova reusable medium-lift rocket and complete construction of its launch facility in Florid...
Jan 15, 2025
Space startup funding set for boost from US-China rivalry in 2025, report says
By Akash Sriram (Reuters) - Funding in the space industry is set to receive a boost this year from growing U.S.-China tensions, after startups in the sector clocked $8.6 billion in investments in 2024...
Jan 15, 2025
Japan's ispace, US's Firefly launch moon landers from Florida
By Joey Roulette and Kantaro Komiya ORLANDO, Florida/TOKYO (Reuters) -Two moon landers, one from Japan's ispace and another from U.S. space firm Firefly, lifted off on Wednesday from Florida on a Spac...
Jan 15, 2025
Space startup Loft Orbital raises $170 million to expand satellite fleet
(Reuters) - Loft Orbital has raised $170 million in a late-stage funding round with investors such as Temasek, Tikehau Capital and Axial Partners, the space technology company said as it looks to expa...
Jan 14, 2025
Intrepid white dwarf has a close encounter with a massive black hole
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Scientists have detected emanating from the nucleus of a galaxy relatively close to our Milky Way flashes of X-rays gradually increasing in frequency that seem to...
Jan 14, 2025
Bezos' Blue Origin calls off New Glenn launch again, eyes Thursday
(Reuters) - Jeff Bezos' rocket company Blue Origin moved the launch of its New Glenn rocket from Tuesday to Thursday, Jan. 16, further pushing back its inaugural attempt to reach orbit and compete wit...
Jan 14, 2025
Australian scientists discover bigger species of deadly funnel web spiders
By Stefica Nicol Bikes SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian scientists have discovered a bigger, more venomous species of the Sydney funnel-web spider, one of the world's deadliest. The new funnel-web specie...
Jan 14, 2025
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