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Semiconductor manufacturing in India gets a boost with ISMC’s proposed $3 billion plant in Karnataka
India set out a $10 billion push to bring semiconductor chipset manufacturing in the country back i…
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From launch vehicles to space tourism, Indian space start-ups aim high
The Vikram-S rocket, developed over the past two years and built using 3-D printing technology, rea…
PTI
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NASA's Artemis I Orion spaceship enters lunar orbit — a critical step toward sending astronauts to the moon for the first time since 1972
NASA is hinging its ambitions to send astronauts to the moon and Mars — along with $50 billion spen…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Asteroid mining startup founded by ex-SpaceX and Virgin Orbit engineers books first test mission with SpaceX
AstroForge is scheduled to test its technology next year, using a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket to get int…
Tasmin Lockwood
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A sun-skimming spacecraft captured video of a massive plasma eruption on the solar surface for the first time
The sun's outbursts can send plasma and electrically charged particles careening toward Earth. This…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Richard Branson's Virgin Orbit has spent $1 billion trying to reach to space — while a small New Zealand startup got to orbit for a fraction of that
CEO Peter Beck says Rocket Lab has spent about $180 million to develop the Electron launch vehicle,…
Dave Mosher
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SpaceX has launched a billionaire-funded crew of space tourists into orbit - the first civilian mission of its kind
SpaceX's Inspiration4 mission has carried a group of four amateur space travelers to Earth's orbit,…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Elon Musk's SpaceX teases next-gen satellites, reveals company on track meet goal of 52-60 launches this year
According to Musk's slide deck, SpaceX's Starlink satellite internet constellation has secured c…
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Blue Origin's next spaceflight will include a former NASA engineer and a healthcare entrepreneur
Blue Origin is flying a group of paying tourists to the edge of space on October 12 following Jeff …
Tim Levin
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Amazon is launching its first internet satellites next year. It'll be around 2,000 satellites behind SpaceX.
Amazon's Project Kuiper is building a satellite internet service to rival SpaceX's Starlink. The fi…
Tim Levin
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A Las Vegas hotel mogul plans to send an inflatable space hotel into orbit around the moon by 2022
The company's 'Bigelow Expandable Activity Module,' or BEAM, was attached to the Internat…
Hilary Brueck
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A Russian billionaire has launched the smallest-ever spacecraft into orbit - a key step to reaching a nearby star system
"The lifetime of Proxima is several trillion years, almost a thousand times longer than the remaini…
Dave Mosher
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The next unicorn may not come from Silicon Valley
Once known as the "Paris of the Midwest" - Detroit is intent on regaining its former glory with a h…
Tory Green, Tiller Partners
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For the next 9 months, the brightest object in the night sky will be a tiny, disco-ball-like satellite
The sparkly new addition to the night sky will also draw attention to Rocket Lab, a company that's …
Erin Brodwin
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Planned crewed launch of Indian-origin astronaut Sunita Williams on Boeing's Starliner spacecraft called off
NASA announced on social media platform X that the problem was identified with an oxygen valve on p…
ANI
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Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin passes 4 key milestones for its $172 million NASA contract to build a new space station
NASA awarded Blue Origin $130 million to build the Orbital Reef space station that will be a destin…
Ellyn Lapointe,Jessica Orwig,Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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'3 Body Problem' is not 'Game of Thrones' with aliens but it's just getting started
"3 Body Problem" is the start of a new universe from the "Game of Thrones" creators and "True Blood…
Palmer Haasch
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Popular kids' toy store Camp is begging customers for cash because its money is tied up in SVB. It's one of thousands of startups that now faces uncertainty.
Venture-backed toy store Camp is unloading merchandise for 40% off, using the code "BANKRUN," to ra…
Samantha Delouya
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Tom Mueller worked for Elon Musk at SpaceX for almost 20 years: 'I learned never to tell him no'
Tom Mueller told Walter Isaacson for his new biography of Elon Musk: "Just say you're going to try,…
Polly Thompson
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AI-related classes have doubled at Stanford over the past five years showing just how fast it's taking over
Stanford is at the heart of Silicon Valley, so pay attention when AI classes double. Students and f…