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Eutelsat Quantum, the first commercial fully flexible software-defined satellite in the world, lifts off into space. Photo: Hindustan Times
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World's 1st commercial re-programmable satellite blasts into space

The satellite will be placed in orbit some 36 minutes after the launch

Atlas V rocket carrying Boeing's CST-100 Starliner capsule is prepared for launch to the International Space Station in a do-over test flight at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, US July 29, 2021. REUTERS/Joe Skipper
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Space station mishap prompts NASA to postpone launch of Boeing Starliner

Ready to go to space? Virgin Atlantic has 2 free seats and they are up for grabs
Science

Ready to go to space? Virgin Atlantic has 2 free seats and they are up for grabs

Jeff Bezos speaks at an event before unveiling Blue Origin's Blue Moon lunar lander, in Washington. On Monday, July 12, 2021, the Federal Aviation Administration approved Blue Origin's attempt to launch people into space. Photo :AP via UNB
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Jeff Bezos slammed for ‘tone-deaf’ comment, Bernie Sanders demands he pay income tax

Illustration: TBS
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Billionaire space race: Dawn of a new age or fanciful whimsies of the rich?

Director General of the European Space Agency (ESA) Josef Aschbacher gestures as he talks during an interview with Reuters in Berlin, Germany, June 24, 2021. REUTERS/Christian Mang
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'Space is for everyone': Europe's Space Agency to hire first disabled astronaut

Sir Richard Branson stands on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange ahead of the start of trading in Virgin Galactic in New York, Oct. 28, 2019. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid
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Branson's Virgin Galactic gets FAA approval to fly people to space

A squid is shown at a lab in Honolulu on June 11, 2021. Dozens of baby squid from Hawaii are in space for study. The baby Hawaiian bobtail squid were raised at the University of Hawaii's Kewalo Marine Laboratory and were blasted into space earlier this month on a SpaceX resupply mission to the International Space Station. Photo :APA via UNB
Science

NASA sends squid from Hawaii into space for research

Ji Qiming, Assistant Director General of China Manned Space Agency speaks during a news conference before the Shenzhou-12 mission to build China's space station, at Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Gansu province, China June 16, 2021. Photo: Reuters
China

China to send three astronauts to space, including its oldest

The Soyuz MS-17 spacecraft is seen before docking to Rassvet module of the International Space Station (ISS), October 14, 2020, in this picture taken by Russian cosmonaut Ivan Vagner from the International Space Station (ISS).Photo: Reuters
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Russia picks cast for movie to be shot in space

Yusaku Maezawa. Picture: Reuters
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Japanese fashion magnate Maezawa to visit International Space Station

An undated artist's concept shows NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft, the first human-made object to venture into interstellar space. REUTERS/NASA/JPL-Caltech/Handout via Reuters
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Faraway NASA probe detects the eerie hum of interstellar space

Coldplay beam up new single ‘Higher Power’ to space. Photo: Collected
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Coldplay beam up new single ‘Higher Power’ to space