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  Virgin Galactic announces deal with Boeing subsidiary to build next-gen motherships

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  Virgin Galactic says it will partner with Aurora Flight Sciences, a Virginia-based Boeing subsidiary, to design and build next-generation motherships …

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  How the Star Trek saga blazed new trails for space exploration — with a hand from superfan Jeff Bezos

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  Over the course of five decades, advances in space science and exploration have changed the Star Trek saga — but it’s obvious that the sci-fi TV show …

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  Microsoft and Xplore team up with NOAA to demonstrate cloud-based satellite operations

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  What do you do with an aging weather satellite? If you’re the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, you turn to Microsoft Azure and a …

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  How ‘Big Data’ could help SETI researchers intensify the search for alien civilizations

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  Could far-off aliens be sending out signals telling us they exist? If so, how would we know where to look? Researchers focusing on the search for …

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  Stratolaunch ascends to new heights with successful test of world’s biggest airplane

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  Stratolaunch says its mammoth carrier airplane rose to its highest altitude yet during its seventh flight test over California’s Mojave Desert. The …

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  Stratolaunch lands its mammoth airplane early after a flight test that didn’t meet all of its objectives

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  Stratolaunch says the sixth flight test of its super-sized Roc carrier airplane ended earlier than planned when the team ran into an unexpected issue. …