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Another Memorial Day: boasts, insults, “self-defense strikes,” cheap clichés from a “Secretary of War” prattling about dead boys “delivered from the battlefield into the arms of a loving Lord and savior.” Spare us. And maybe revisit the war to end all wars, which didn’t – its “infinity of waste” andContinue Reading

SpaceX Starfall and Future Human-rated Versions

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Starfall is SpaceX’s new uncrewed disk-shaped cargo return capsule (launched on its first demo flight today, June 23, 2026, aboard a Falcon 9). It is a flat, low-profile vehicle (~3.1 m diameter × 0.75 m tall) designed for rapid, high-volume return of up to ~1,000 kg of payload from orbit — especially for in-space manufacturingContinue Reading

SpaceX Has Successful Starfall Demo

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Home » Energy » SpaceX Has Successful Starfall Demo Today SpaceX deployed and demonstrated the Starfall low cost capsule return system. This a demo of a new vehicle that will enable affordable, routine access to the microgravity environment for scientific research and in-space manufacturing. After demonstrating controlled flight, the spacecraft will splash down in theContinue Reading

NASA Testing Advanced Capabilities for Moon, Mars Rovers

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On a bleak stretch of the Colorado Desert in Southern California, a compact four-wheeled rover recently trundled about 16 miles (26 kilometers) with minimal intervention from the team of engineers trailing it. Called ERNEST (Exploration Rover for Navigating Extreme Sloped Terrain), this prototype is being used by NASA to advance both robotic autonomy and theContinue Reading