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Astronomers May Not Like It but Astronomy and Colonialism Have a Shared History

Nithyanand Rao 02/02/2020

Casting Native Hawai'ians' opposition to the Thirty Meter Telescope...

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The Year of the Satellite Megaconstellation

Swapna Krishna 06/01/2020

2019 has seen a new kind of space race:...

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Thanks to Starlink There’s a New Void in Space: the Absence of Rules of the Road

Vasudevan Mukunth 20/11/2019

An abundance of financial incentives, a dearth of policies...

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Elon Musk Unveils Design for SpaceX Mega-Rocket ‘Starship’

The Wire Staff 29/09/2019

The rocket's first flight will be within "one or...

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SpaceShare, a New Indian Project to Democratise Access to Space

Vasudevan Mukunth 27/09/2019

A Mumbai-based company is set to crowdsource payloads from...

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ESA Spacecraft Sidesteps Collision With SpaceX Satellite

The Wire Staff 03/09/2019

According to media reports, SpaceX refused to move its...

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Two Major Leadership Changes in NASA as it Prepares for Race to the Moon

Joey Roulette 11/07/2019

The biggest change to rock the agency is the...