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    Well, this is embarrassing: The Lunar Gateway’s primary modules are corroded

    So every time a NASA official testified about the Gateway program timeline they committed perjury? Plenty of questions were asked about Gateway over the last few years, and not once did any official bring up the fact that they were corroded and that meant they’d be years late. Even if it was a...
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    Elon Musk loses big in court; X boycott perfectly legal

    If you have tens of billions of dollars you may as well sue on any gripe you have. Send an army of lawyers no matter what the facts are. What’s the worse that can happen? A few hundred million in legal fees? Some bad press no one will remember a year later? Twitter’s financials recovered and...
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    What happens next with NASA’s plan to replace the ISS? Source: “It could get ugly”

    I’d love to read the actual studies that say “These are the customers, this is how much they say they will pay, and this is how often they say they will pay it.”. And why haven’t they signed contracts? Or letters of intent? With rocket development they start selling launches way before they...
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    NASA says it needs to haul the Artemis II rocket back to the hangar for repairs

    How many times can they do a fueling test? No shade. I’m asking about if there is a limit to the number of times the system can be fueled and then purged before the expansion/shrinkage of seals begins to be an issue? Similar to the battery issues that arise between about system arming and...
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    Has Elon Musk given up on Mars?

    Small correction: He isn’t the “richest person of all time”. That’s Mansa Musa. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mansa_Musa
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    LG joins the rest of the world, accepts that people don’t want 8K TVs

    I’m the dumbass who bought a 3-D TV when they still cost $1300. After Avatar, I ate the advertising up and was so convinced it was the future. It even could upscale any content to 3-D. But no one wanted the glasses and I ended up the asshole who used it like twice. Just for gaming.
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    NASA’s first-ever medical evacuation from space ends with on-target splashdown

    That is exactly my point! Why open any of this up to speculation? Why not just say what it is and skip any sort of discussion or tin foil hat theories? Why let it even get to speculation? Seems almost heroic if managed correctly. “NASA managed to get safely conduct an emergency evacuation...
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    NASA’s first-ever medical evacuation from space ends with on-target splashdown

    So it has to be something embarrassing right? Like Hemorrhoids or an STD? Otherwise why not just say what the astronaut was suffering from? It makes no sense to be this opaque over something as simple as strep throat, or some sort of virus. Opening up the issue to speculation has to be far...
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    Key Senate staffer is “begging” NASA to get on with commercial space stations

    I will never understand the business case use here. Commercial launch worked because lots of people wanted to launch satellites. There aren’t hundreds of institutions lined up to pay millions of dollars to send their own researcher into space, much less hundreds of people willing to pay millions...
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    Wary of picking just one, NASA nears important decision on a lunar rover selection

    Funding multiple companies so “we are sure to have 1 X” is the greatest heist aerospace companies ever pulled. Just actually deliver on time. We went thru Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, Skylab, Shuttle, Mars, Countless Probes, and ISS modules without buying 2 of everything. Ever see Contact...
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    When recreating a famous SUV stunt in China goes wrong

    Fascinating. Thank you for the information. So basically these things are death traps lol. I do appreciate the clarity, thanks.
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    When recreating a famous SUV stunt in China goes wrong

    I still don’t get why they can’t sell it here in the US. I’d happily pay $16k for that. Shit, i[d be happy even with a few grand in shipping charges. Is it just crash testing? I mean it has to do better than my tiny Fiesta.
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    Russia’s state-run human spaceflight company may be near bankruptcy

    Small mistake, the interest rate was lowered to 18%, not raised. It had been at 20% since 2022, and popped up to 21% recently. Still awful of course.
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    A European spacecraft company flies its vehicle, then loses it after reentry

    Cargo delivery to where? By 2028 the ISS will be on its way out. Maybe 1 of the commercial stations will actually be in orbit, and they’d have to compete with Sierra, Dragon, Starliner, Soyuz etc. What is the business plan here?
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    Solar power from space? Actually, it might happen in a couple of years.

    Anyone remember SpinLaunch? Good times. 1- Raise a little $ 2- Make a cool tech demo 3- Promise scale ASAP 4-Raise big $$$ 5- Sell shares b4 the bankruptcy
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    Artemis II almost certainly will miss its September 2025 launch date

    Anyone remember when they said the best use of Orion/SLS was an asteroid rendezvous? Good times.
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    Is NASA’s commercial space station program doomed?

    So NASA has spent $650M and gotten back some cool mock ups while shutting down Chandra and canceling VIPER over like 1/10th of that? Classic NASA
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    Xbox console sales continue to crater with massive 42% revenue drop

    I can play Game Pass on my $35 Fire Stick Max, so why buy a $500 Xbox? I just use it and my PS5.
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    Diamond Shruumz candies suspected of causing second death, FDA reports

    This is the 5th article I’ve read and Ars still won’t explain why they can’t just get a warrant and go search the factory or why they haven’t simply just interviewed the employees?