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    NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft finally phones home after 5 months of no contact

    They need to update to fix this error. NASA engineers have incredibly fixed a 'work around' for the V1 memory. Its amazing how V1 is still not one light day away, Space is SO SO BIG.
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    Are we prepared for Chinese preeminence on the moon and Mars? (op-ed)

    If you exclude SpaceX as your article did, there have been 6 US launches in 2024, 4 were Rocketlab Electrons.
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    NASA still investigating Orion heat shield issues from Artemis 1 moon mission

    This I believe has influenced SpaceX so much, The need to slow down before re-entry. To that end the Starship V3 is growing in size. Thus allowing a Starship variant to refuel in orbit , that is then able to get to the Moon and back and have enough fuel to slow down to enter LEO where it can...
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    SpaceX's longest-ever astronaut cruise was a smooth ride, Ax-3 crewmembers say

    It was interesting about washing machines in Space. At the maiden flight of the Falcon Heavy 2016, I was chatting to an SpaceX engineer, we had a very insightful discussion on some of the differences between use of centrifuges or artificial gravity; having subtle important differences with...