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Amazon’s Kuiper has big plans but both groups face costly ongoing satellite replacement programmes
Is there life on Europa? Nasa probe heads for moon with more water than Earth
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SpaceX successfully catches Starship booster in crucial test flight
Starship is the centrepiece of Elon Musk’s ambitions of sending people to the moon and Mars
‘Earth looks perfect’: SpaceX crew perform first private spacewalk
Elon Musk-led company completes latest and riskiest bid to push the boundaries of commercial space flight
SpaceX launches Polaris Dawn mission with plans for first commercial spacewalk
Privately funded five-day mission blasts off from Nasa’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida
SpaceX’s Starship rocket records first fully successful test flight
Rocket designed by Elon Musk’s company reached altitude of more than 210km at a speed of 25,700km/h
Boeing calls off first astronaut launch because of valve problem on rocket
Issue involved an oxygen relief valve on the upper stage of the company’s Atlas rocket, engineer says
SpaceX’s Starship destroyed on return to Earth at end of third test flight
Spacecraft flew around globe for first time but contact was lost during final stages of test as it re-entered atmosphere
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Rotation of Eirsat-1, which is no bigger than a brick, righted by ground teams after being ejected from SpaceX rocket
Moon lander Odysseus ‘alive and well’ after it tipped sideways on lunar surface
Spacecraft is believed to have caught one of its landing feet on the uneven lunar surface and tipped over
Elon Musk to make another break with Delaware by moving SpaceX to Texas
Billionaire to shift a second business away from the state where his $56bn Tesla pay package was struck down
US private Moon lander Odysseus launches from Florida
Moon lander could be first private private mission to land intact on lunar surface
Planet Business: Copycat layoffs, hallucinations and other words of the year
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Ireland’s first satellite in space launches successfully, with signal picked up in Co Donegal
Eirsat-1 got a clean deployment from the SpaceX rocket that carried it into low orbit, California base reports
Ireland’s first satellite EIRSAT-1 due to launch from California this week
‘We are about to become a spacefaring nation,’ says UCD researcher
Ireland’s first satellite set to launch later this month
Dr David Murphy of the EIRSAT-1 team said the mission will bring Ireland’s space industry to new heights
SpaceX loses contact with Starship ‘declared lost’ after it reaches space for the first time
Uncrewed spacecraft is presumed to have failed and self-destructed
Elon Musk’s biographer: ‘He has an epic sense of himself, as if he’s a comic book character’
Biographer Walter Isaacson spent two years embedded with the Tesla, SpaceX and Twitter boss as he researched his book
Ukrainian official accuses Musk of ‘committing evil’ over alleged Starlink network shutdown
Billionaire defends move claiming he did not want SpaceX company to be ‘explicitly complicit in a major act of war and conflict escalation’
How Silicon Valley is helping the Pentagon in the AI arms race
US military opening up to defence and weapons start-ups as evolving technology begins to transform modern warfare
Ireland’s X Files: Records reveal Government confusion over UFOs
Requests to open an embassy for extra terrestrials among correspondence to Government ministers
Pilita Clark: Acronyms can make complex things at work simple, but use them carefully
Resistance to irksome abbreviations has proved futile, so let’s enjoy the best of them
SpaceX rocket explodes before reaching orbit
Unmanned rocket was not expected to complete all phases of first attempted space flight
SpaceX Starship test flight cancelled minutes before launch due to ‘pressurisation’ problem
Musk owned company will need a minimum of two days to prepare the system for another attempt at orbital flight
Twitter becomes X Corporation as Musk advances ‘everything app’ hopes
Change comes as ex-Twitter chief executive Parag Agrawal reveals DOJ probe in pursuit of legal fees repayment
NASA, SpaceX postpone launch of next space station crew at 11th hour
‘Technical glitch’ blamed for cancellation of flight to International Space Station
Europe enters new space race
International rush towards satellite technology after Starlink proves crucial in Ukraine
Meet Ireland’s first person bound for space
Cork-born photographer Rhiannon Adam to take off in remarkable artist residency on ‘dear moon’ mission
SpaceX rocket sends first global water survey mission into orbit
Data from US-French satellite is expected to shed new light on the mechanics and consequences of climate change
Cork-born artist selected for civilian moon flight
Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa is funding the SpaceX lunar flight
Is Elon Musk reinventing the wheel?
Electric cars were the choice of early auto racers, with Camille Jenatzy’s Jamais Contente first to break the 100km per hour barrier in 1899
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