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If you want to get to the moon, you need to spend an enormous amount of resources developing, creating, testing, and deploying a variety of spacecraft and technologies.

Reflect Orbital’s plan to deliver “sunlight on demand” using thousands of giant orbital mirrors is just the latest in a growing list of disruptive commercial activities in space

Satellite imaging is increasingly important to every field from crop monitoring to poverty reduction. So it’s no surprise that there have been more and more satellites launched to try to meet that growing demand. But with more satellites comes more risk for collision - and the debris field that comes after the collision. A new paper in Advanced in Space Research from John Mackintosh and his co-authors at the University of Manchester looks at how we might use mission design to mitigate some of the hazards of increasing the number of satellites even more

The Angry Astronaut examines asteroid 1998 KY26, a tiny, fast-spinning near‑Earth object showing unexplained non‑gravitational acceleration, and the planned 2031 Hayabusa2 rendezvous that could determine whether it is a natural ‘dark comet’ or artificial hardware. Drawing on Avi Loeb’s new analysis linking KY26 to the lost Soviet Phobos 1 probe and earlier arguments about ’Oumuamua, the discussion explores whether such objects may sometimes be human‑made spacecraft or even remnants of non‑human technology.

The continued release of greenhouse gases into Earth's atmosphere could increase the longevity of space junk in low Earth orbit, a new paper reveals.

Feminism, fame, and flexing in zero gravity—here’s why Blue Origin’s all-female space trip went viral for all the wrong (or right) reasons.

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