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India's space startup calls off maiden rocket launch for a fourth time
BENGALURU (Reuters) - India's Agnikul Cosmos called off a test flight of its first rocket on Tuesday seconds before it was due to launch - the fourth such cancellation in the last three months. Launch...
May 28, 2024
South Korea says video shows North Korea's failed satellite launch
SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea released video footage on Tuesday that its military said showed the moment North Korea's latest attempt at launching a satellite ended in failure. The one-minute black-an...
May 27, 2024
Amazon to deorbit pair of prototype satellites, calling tests successful
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Amazon on Thursday said it would begin a process to deorbit two prototype satellites it launched in 2023 as an early test of its Kuiper broadband internet constellation, a plann...
May 23, 2024
Australian trial of gene-edited wheat aims for 10% bigger yields
By Peter Hobson CANBERRA (Reuters) - The groundwork for a major trial of gene-edited wheat has begun in Australia, where a state company is growing hundreds of varieties it says could be up to 10% mor...
May 23, 2024
NASA, Boeing targeting June 1 for Starliner's debut crewed flight
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - NASA and Boeing are targeting June 1 for the company's first crewed launch of its Starliner spacecraft as engineers investigate the cause of a helium leak, the agency said Wedne...
May 22, 2024
SpaceX launches first satellites for new US spy constellation
By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON (Reuters) - SpaceX on Wednesday launched an inaugural batch of operational spy satellites it built as part of a new U.S. intelligence network designed to significantly upgr...
May 22, 2024
Sun's magnetic field may originate closer to the solar surface
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The sun's magnetic field, which causes solar storms like the one that hit Earth this month and produced beautiful auroras, may originate at shallower depths in th...
May 22, 2024
Cubans put Asian silkworms to work for artisans in experimental project
By Alien Fernandez INDIO HATUEY, Cuba (Reuters) - Cuban biochemist Dayron Martin, dressed in a white lab coat and jeans, looks over a table swarming with silkworms with the admiration of a proud fathe...
May 22, 2024
US assesses Russia launched space weapon near American satellite last week
By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Russia last week launched a satellite that U.S. intelligence officials believe to be a weapon capable of inspecting and attacking other satellites, the U.S. Spa...
May 21, 2024
Chinese fossil reveals evolution of skin in feathered dinosaurs
By Will Dunham (Reuters) - A new fossil of the Cretaceous Period dinosaur Psittacosaurus, a dog-sized herbivore with a parrot-like beak, that was donated to a Chinese university came with a surprise -...
May 21, 2024
