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For the first time ever, SpaceX successfully recovered its massive Starship spacecraft intact after it survived a soft ocean landing. The 171-foot vehicle is now heading back to Texas after engineers gathered breakthrough data from its heat shield.
A tiny startup with only 12 employees just built a 200-kilogram spacecraft that can bring experiments back from space and fly again. Reditus Space is proving that the future of space research doesn't have to take years or cost millions.
Europe's first reusable spacecraft just conquered two massive engineering challenges, bringing the continent closer to joining the elite club of nations that can launch, land, and fly again. The minivan-sized Space Rider survived blistering heat tests and is ready for precision landing trials this year.
A new competition lets researchers test experiments at the edge of space and return to fly again in months instead of years. The Aurora spaceplane takes off and lands like a regular plane, making space access as routine as commercial flights.
A SpaceX cargo capsule just proved it can do something critical for keeping astronauts safe in orbit. The reusable spacecraft successfully boosted the International Space Station six times during its mission, solving a potential future problem.