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China launches three-crew space flight as part of Moon ambitions
1+ day, 3+ hour ago (684+ words) China launched its Shenzhou-23 mission on Sunday, which will see a Chinese astronaut spend a full year in orbit for the first time, a crucial step in Beijing's ambition to send humans to the Moon by 2030. The Long March 2-F…...
China to launch three-crew space flight as part of Moon ambitions
1+ day, 6+ hour ago (623+ words) China is launching its Shenzhou-23 mission on Sunday, which will see a Chinese astronaut spend a full year in orbit for the first time, a crucial step in Beijing's ambition to send humans to the Moon by 2030. A Long March…...
China set for latest space launch, with Hong Kong astronaut aboard
2+ day, 14+ hour ago (580+ words) A Hong Kong astronaut will join a Chinese space mission for the first time as part of a three-person crew launching on Sunday, as Beijing edges closer to its goal of landing people on the Moon. The Tiangong space station…...
US jury finds Boeing not guilty in 737 MAX grounding lawsuit
2+ day, 16+ hour ago (476+ words) A US jury found Friday that aerospace giant Boeing was not liable for lost revenue in a lawsuit involving its 737 MAX jets, which were grounded for 20 months following two deadly crashes in 2018 and 2019. Polish airline LOT had accused Boeing of…...
Space X to retry Starship test launch Friday
2+ day, 23+ hour ago (419+ words) Elon Musk's Space X will attempt another launch of its mammoth Starship rocket Friday, after the previous evening's try was called off over technical issues. The highly anticipated launch will see the debut of Space X's third generation model of…...
Musk's Space X bonus comes with unique condition: colonize Mars
4+ day, 5+ hour ago (339+ words) Space X's blockbuster IPO filing included some out of this world details, including a provision that founder Elon Musk's massive bonus only kicks in if one million humans settle on Mars. The bonus structure, laid out in Space X's prospectus…...
Air France, Airbus guilty of manslaughter in 2009 Paris-Rio crash: French court
4+ day, 6+ hour ago (592+ words) Paris" appeals court Thursday found Air France and Airbus guilty of involuntary manslaughter over the 2009 crash of a Rio-Paris flight that killed 228 people, the worst disaster in France"s aviation history. The Paris Court of Appeal ruled that the French…...
Space X, the sprawling company targeting the stars, Mars and an IPO
4+ day, 20+ hour ago (839+ words) Elon Musk founded Space X in 2002 with the lofty goal of ferrying humans to Mars and colonizing Earth's neighboring planet. Today the company is sprawling, a dominant force in the commercial space industry that is contracting with NASA in a…...
Musk's Space X is about to go public. Here's how it works
4+ day, 20+ hour ago (691+ words) Hundreds of companies raised a combined $70 billion by selling shares to the public in the United States last year. If things go as planned, Space X " which took a major regulatory step toward going public on Wednesday " could surpass that…...
Europe-China spacecraft launches to study Earth's "invisible armour'
6+ day, 11+ hour ago (628+ words) A joint European-Chinese spacecraft blasted into orbit Tuesday to investigate what happens when extreme winds and giant explosions of plasma shot out from the Sun slam into Earth's magnetic shield. Particularly fierce solar storms can knock out satellites and threaten…...