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  • Friday, 2 August, 2024
    FT Magazine
    Last days of the lonely interstellar spacecraft

    When the 50-year-old Voyager probe stopped sending messages home, Nasa had a problem. No one remembered how to fix it

    A model of a Voyager spacecraft against a space backdrop
  • Wednesday, 17 July, 2024
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    Nasa is leading a global race to live and work on the lunar surface. But for all the investment there are no guaranteed rewards

  • Saturday, 13 July, 2024
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    Would you survive 378 days of team bonding? Nasa takes the test

    Lengthy simulation of life on Mars illuminates the universal features of work, including petty irritations with colleagues

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  • Monday, 8 July, 2024
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    Europe launches countdown on its return to space

    Ariane 6 rocket must pass multiple carefully orchestrated milestones before lifting off on its first flight on Tuesday

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  • Wednesday, 26 June, 2024
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  • Thursday, 6 June, 2024
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    SpaceX’s Starship completes fourth test flight despite last-minute hitch

    Successful mission boosts Elon Musk’s plans to build a spacecraft able to take humans to Moon and beyond

  • Sunday, 2 June, 2024
    China lands probe to collect first samples from far side of Moon

    Beijing hopes Chang’e-6 will help to determine whether little-known region can become lunar base

  • Wednesday, 22 May, 2024
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    European Space Agency aims for own version of SpaceX

    Body awards contracts to two companies to develop cargo services to International Space Station

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  • Friday, 26 April, 2024
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    Rejoice! Voyager 1 is back from the dead

    The craft embodies a golden age of space exploration

    This artist’s concept of NASA’s Voyager spacecraft with its antennapointing to Earth
  • Saturday, 13 April, 2024
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    Lisa Kaltenegger is an enthusiastic guide to the search for life beyond our planet — and the new technologies that could help it succeed

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  • Friday, 22 March, 2024
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    Tapping supplies near the lunar south pole could be critical for future settlements

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  • Friday, 15 March, 2024
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    SpaceX’s Starship rocket reaches space but is lost on return to Earth

    World’s most powerful rocket fails in final phase after meeting third test mission’s other objectives

    SpaceX’s Starship rocket is launched in its third test flight
  • Wednesday, 13 March, 2024
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    International agreement could curb the fight for supremacy in today’s most ambitious technology

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  • Sunday, 10 March, 2024
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    Intuitive Machines aims to extend Odysseus’s pioneering commercial space exploration mission

    Intuitive Machines lander on way to the moon
  • Saturday, 24 February, 2024
    First commercial spacecraft lands on the Moon

    Successful touchdown by Intuitive Machines’ lunar lander heralds more commercial era for space exploration

    Intuitive Machines’ Odysseus lander passes over the near side of the Moon following lunar orbit insertion on February 21 2024
  • Monday, 29 January, 2024
    Japan’s lunar craft regains power after upside-down landing

    Landmark mission this month was jeopardised after engine failure on descent led to power problem

    Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency officials smile in front of a screen showing an image taken by the lunar lander on Monday
  • Friday, 19 January, 2024
    Japanese spacecraft lands on the Moon

    Tokyo joins USSR, US, China and India in achieving soft landing but power problem jeopardises its lunar project

    People raise their hands in celebration at a public viewing event near Tokyo after the Slim spacecraft successfully landed on the Moon
  • Wednesday, 17 January, 2024
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    A new galactic superstructure could undo science’s theory of the universe

    The finding has provoked a mixed reaction among the cosmological cognoscenti

    Andy Carter illustration of scientists looking through a telescope, with the eye showing up in the end of the telescope with the big ring of galaxies
  • Wednesday, 10 January, 2024
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    Beijing-based LandSpace set to challenge Elon Musk’s monopoly on reusable rockets next year

  • Monday, 8 January, 2024
    Fate of pioneering private US Moon mission in jeopardy

    Critical loss of fuel threatens Peregrine lander’s path to lunar surface

    The Vulcan Centaur lifts off from Cape Canaveral
  • Monday, 8 January, 2024
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    Official says implementing voluntary guidelines more important than new global treaty

    Aarti Holla-Maini and planet earth surrounded by space debris
  • Monday, 13 November, 2023
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    Chinese experiment raises hopes for viability of mission to red planet and planetary colonisation

    Evidence of water on the red planet
  • Tuesday, 7 November, 2023
    Space industry
    France, Germany and Italy boost funding for Ariane 6 rocket programme

    Deal to build capacity for independent launches comes as ESA releases first images of galaxies from Euclid telescope

    Test model of ESA’s new heavy-lift Ariane 6 rocket on its launch pad at Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana
  • Thursday, 19 October, 2023
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    Which companies will win the rush to the Moon?

    FT Film: Moon Rush
  • Wednesday, 11 October, 2023
    Nasa to launch first mission to metal-rich asteroid

    Eight-year expedition to Psyche aims to shed light on Earth’s origins

    An illustration depicting Nasa’s Psyche space mission
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