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US Spy Satellite Zuma Failed to Reach Orbit, Assumed Destroyed

Reuters 09/01/2018

The classified intelligence satellite, built by Northrop Grumman Corp, failed...

A girl takes a close look at the world’s first artificial. satellite, the Soviet-made Sputnik I. Credit: Reuters

Taking Stock and Looking to the Future Sixty Years After Sputnik

Keith Gottschalk 08/10/2017

Soon after Sputnik’s launch, the military realised that spacecraft...

Elon Musk, founder, CEO and lead designer at SpaceX and co-founder of Tesla, congratulates WARR Hyperloop from the Technical University of Munich, Germany, after they won the SpaceX Hyperloop Pod Competition II in Hawthorne, California, U.S., August 27, 2017. Credit: Reuters

Elon Musk Shrinks SpaceX Mars Rocket to Cut Costs

Sonali Paul and Tom Westbrook 29/09/2017

SpaceX plans its first trip to the red planet...

Handout photo of the reusable main-stage booster from the SpaceX Falcon 9 makes a successful landing on a platform in the Atlantic Ocean about 185 Nautical miles off the coast of Florida

SpaceX Makes History With Successful Launch of First Recycled Rocket

Irene Klotz 31/03/2017

It took Space Exploration Technologies Corp, as the California-based...

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk unveils the Dragon V2 spacecraft in Hawthorne.

SpaceX to Send First Tourists Around Moon Next Year

Irene Klotz 28/02/2017

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk declined to identify the customers...

SpaceX Launches First Rocket Months After Florida Failure

John Antczak 15/01/2017

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket was launched from California...

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Infinite in All Directions: Nobel’s Women, Meghnad’s Caste, Tantalum’s Decay

Vasudevan Mukunth 10/10/2016

Infinite in All Directions is The Wire‘s science newsletter....