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Private moon mission to carry NASA electric moon dust shield in 2024
By Meredith Garofalo published
NASA is sending a technology demonstrator to the moon on the upcoming private Firefly Blue Ghost Mission 1 in order to test how to repel and remove lunar dust using electricity.

Rocket Lab gearing up to refly Electron booster for 1st time
By Meredith Garofalo published
Rocket Lab has put a recovered Electron first stage back into its production line, a big step toward the company's first-ever rocket reflight.

Boom's XB-1 test plane gets FAA green light for supersonic flight
By Jeff Spry published
Boom Supersonic's XB-1 experimental jet has been cleared for supersonic flight by the FAA.

Space-based solar power may be one step closer to reality, thanks to this key test (video)
By Tereza Pultarova published
A first-of-its-kind lab demonstration shows how solar power transmission from space could work.

Superfast drone fitted with new 'rotating detonation rocket engine' approaches the speed of sound
By Peter Ray Allison published
The experimental fusion reactor sustained temperatures of 180 million degrees Fahrenheit for a record-breaking 48 seconds.

Nuclear fusion reactor in South Korea runs at 100 million degrees C for a record-breaking 48 seconds
By Ben Turner published
The experimental fusion reactor sustained temperatures of 180 million degrees Fahrenheit for a record-breaking 48 seconds.

Could these big expandable habitats help humanity settle the moon and Mars?
By Mike Wall published
Max Space is building habitat modules that could expand to enormous sizes in space, giving humanity plenty of room to live in orbit as well as on the moon and Mars.

China moving at 'breathtaking speed' in final frontier, Space Force says
By Mike Wall published
China is ratcheting up its space capabilities at an impressive clip, with an eye toward potentially ending the United States’ long-held space supremacy, U.S. officials say.

Future quantum computers will be no match for 'space encryption' that uses light to beam data around — with the 1st satellite launching in 2025
By Keumars Afifi-Sabet published
Quantum computers will break encryption one day. But converting data into light particles and beaming them around using thousands of satellites might be one way around this problem.
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