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Could Blue Moon Mark 1 launch on other rockets? SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy and United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan vehicles both likely have the lift capacity to push the vehicle to the Moon. But Vulcan is also sidelined at present and has a long line of Space Force payloads in the queue. So what of Falcon Heavy? The Mark 1 lander is powered by the BE-7 engine, which runs on liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen. There may be compatibility issues related to the Falcon rocket’s kerosene-powered upper stage, although this has not been confirmed. Also, it is unlikely that Blue Origin would…

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President Donald Trump on Friday morning said he is meeting in the Situation Room “to make a final determination” after listing everything that Iran must do for him to approve a deal to end the war.It was not immediately clear from Trump’s statement on Truth Social which of his make-or-break conditions are already part of a preliminary agreement that U.S. and Iranian negotiators are currently working on to pause the three-month-old war.Iran “must agree” to never have a nuclear weapon, and the Strait of Hormuz must be “immediately open” to unrestricted shipping traffic, with no tolls being imposed, Trump demanded…

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Elon Musk at SpaceX in Brownsville, Texas, May 27, 2025.Marvin Joseph | The Washington Post | Getty ImagesSpaceX filed for an initial public offering a week ago, and Elon Musk is already creating confusion.Days before the reusable rocket maker is scheduled to start pitching its story to investors, Musk took to social network X, which is owned by SpaceX, late Wednesday to explain details of the company’s recent partnership with competing AI startup Anthropic. His comment included a potentially material aspect about their deal that wasn’t included in SpaceX’s 300-plus page IPO filing.Earlier this month, SpaceX said it was leasing…

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Shares of Dell Technologies skyrocketed 32% on Friday after the company reported its fastest pace for revenue growth for any period since returning to the public market in 2018. The stock is pacing for its best day ever.Dell, which reported first-quarter earnings after the bell on Thursday, saw a flood of artificial intelligence-related demand for its servers, which contain graphics processing units from companies like Nvidia. Quarterly revenue soared nearly 88% year over year, with AI server revenue alone increasing 757% from a year earlier to $16.1 billion. Adjusted earnings per share came in at $4.86, beating expectations of $2.94.Ben…

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Former U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi (C) arrives to testify at a closed-door interview with the House Oversight Committee on Capitol Hill on May 29, 2026 in Washington, DC.Andrew Harnik | Getty ImagesFormer Attorney General Pam Bondi on Friday defended the Department of Justice’s handling of the release of files about notorious sex offender Jeffrey Epstein in her opening statement to a House panel.Bondi said that “to the best of my knowledge,” the DOJ publicly released all documents and other evidence as required by the Epstein Files Transparency Act, according to a transcript of her statement obtained by MS NOW.Her…

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Worst practices… The recent growth of Chinese upper stages has been driven by the country’s increased launch rate as it begins to deploy satellite megaconstellations, Shell said. China’s space industry is just at the beginning of launching megaconstellations to compete with SpaceX’s Starlink satellite service, suggesting that if the country does not curb this practice it will deteriorate an already congested space environment. Chinese constellations such as Guowang and Spacesail are typically at higher altitudes, above 800 km, and China may launch 1,000 or more rockets over the next decade to support these constellations. That’s a lot of new junk…

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