
Stephen Clark
Space Reporter at Ars Technica
Space Reporter @arstechnica, ex @SpaceflightNow | Reachable at [email protected]
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22 hours ago |
arstechnica.com | Stephen Clark
"It’s not impossible, so how do we overcome our hurdles?" A robotic lander developed by a Japanese company named ispace plummeted to the Moon's surface Thursday, destroying a small rover and several experiments intended to demonstrate how future missions could mine and harvest lunar resources.
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1 day ago |
arstechnica.com | Stephen Clark
SpaceX's rockets make a lot more noise, but the machinations of Texas' newest city are underway. Welcome to Edition 7.47 of the Rocket Report! Let's hope not, but the quarrel between President Donald Trump and Elon Musk may be remembered as "Black Thursday" for the US space program.
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3 days ago |
arstechnica.com | Stephen Clark
"That's exactly the kind of thing that NASA should be concentrating its resources on." New details of the Trump administration's plans for NASA, released Friday, revealed the White House's desire to end the development of an experimental nuclear thermal rocket engine that could have shown a new way of exploring the Solar System. Trump's NASA budget request is rife with spending cuts.
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1 week ago |
arstechnica.com | Stephen Clark
"There's not yet a commercial reason only to go to the Moon with humans." Eighteen months after leaving his job as a vice president at Amazon to take over as Blue Origin's chief executive, Dave Limp has some thoughts on how commercial companies and government agencies like NASA should explore the Solar System together. Limp had no background in the space industry before taking the helm of Jeff Bezos' space company in December 2023.
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1 week ago |
arstechnica.com | Stephen Clark
Tianwen-2 will first return samples from an asteroid, then explore a mysterious comet-like object. A Chinese spacecraft built to collect specimens from an unexplored asteroid and return them to Earth successfully launched Wednesday from a military-run spaceport in the country's mountainous interior. Liftoff aboard a Long March 3B rocket at 1:31 pm EDT (17:31 UTC) from the Xichang launch base kicked off the second mission in a series of Chinese probes to explore the Solar System.
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In this week's Rocket Report: • Fresh insights into one of SpaceX's worst days • Rocket Lab, meet Rocket Cargo • More trouble for America's new ICBM • Gilmour will (hopefully) wait no more https://t.co/saXE2tEhyp

A relic from Russia's golden age in spaceflight is falling back to Earth. https://t.co/jOfeO5jv4M

RT @SciGuySpace: One major surprise in the Trump administration's "skinny budget" proposal for NASA, released last Friday, was a demand tha…