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STARSHIP V3 ROLLS TO THE PAD: SpaceX Targets Mid-May for Its Most Ambitious Flight Yet

THE STORY SpaceX is targeting windows opening as early as May 12 for Flight 12, the first orbital test flight of the

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2026.05.12 /Issue 5.7.02026

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POWER FROM THE VOID: Meta Just Signed a Deal for Solar Energy Beamed from Space

THE STORY Overview Energy, a startup developing space-based solar power systems, announced an agreement to provide up to 1 gigawatt of power

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RUST IN THE GATEWAY: A Corrosion Problem Is Threatening NASA's Lunar Station and Axiom's Commercial Outpost

THE STORY A manufacturing issue involving a European company has caused corrosion in habitat modules built for both NASA's Lunar

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PLASMA DRIVES FOR MARS: NASA Just Fired Up a Thruster That Could Cut the Trip in Half

THE STORY NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has successfully tested a prototype lithium-fed magnetoplasmadynamic (MPD) thruster, a high-power electric propulsion system

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ORBITAL GUNFIGHTERS: The Pentagon Just Bet $3.2 Billion on Space-Based Interceptors

THE STORY The U.S. Space Force's Space Systems Command has awarded 20 Other Transaction Authority contracts totaling up to

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