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Elon Musk's SpaceX raises over $337 million in fresh funding

Billionaire Elon Musk's SpaceX has raised $337.4 million in equity financing, the rocket company disclosed in a regulatory filing on Wednesday.SpaceX, which counts Alph

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Elon Musk's SpaceX raises over $337 million in fresh funding

Billionaire Elon Musk's SpaceX has raised $337.4 million in equity financing, the rocket company disclosed in a regulatory filing on Wednesday.SpaceX, which counts Alph

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Virgin Galactic flights grounded pending investigation into 'mishap' during Branson space mission

The US Federal Aviation Administration says company cannot fly its SpaceShipTwo until the end of its investigation into a mishap report on the flight the British billionaire took in July.

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FAA grounds Virgin Galactic amidst investigation into July mission

Remember that story we posted earlier today about Virgin Galactic’s first commercial flight scheduled to launch in September?We may have spoken too soon. This afternoon, the Federal Aviation Administr

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Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin capsule completes successful flight

03:00 "Best day ever!" Those were the words of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos as he touched down in the West Texas desert on Tuesday.On this 52nd anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, a

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Blue Origin's Jeff Bezos launched into space

Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon, was launched into space aboard his company Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket on Tuesday, nine days after his rival Richard Branson reached the edge of space on board a V

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Richard Branson’s space travel “dream come true”

02:39 From the moment Richard Branson founded Virgin Galactic 17 years ago, the billionaire has been focused on reaching this day, this goal.Before the flight, he shared a picture of hi

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Virgin Galactic launches space plane with boss Richard Branson aboard

Virgin Galactic, an American spaceflight company, launched its first fully crewed space flight on Sunday, with its British founder Richard Branson on board.Branson's spaceflight came just nine days a

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Virgin Orbit successfully launches its first commercial payloads to space

Virgin Orbit had a successful first commercial launch, meaning there’s now officially another small satellite launch provider in operation with a track record of delivering payloads to space. Vi

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Virgin Orbit’s next launch at the end of June will be streamed live on YouTube

Virgin Orbit is getting great to launch its next mission to space, with a target window at the end of this month. This will be the first time Virgin Orbit is flying after its first successful orbital

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Virgin Orbit’s LauncherOne is returning to space in June

Orbital launch company Virgin Orbit has scheduled its next mission to space.Virgin Orbit will be returning its LauncherOne rocket to orbit in June to deliver payloads for the U.S. Department of Defens

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Supersonic jet company Aerion partners with NASA on high-speed point-to-point travel

Aerion has been working on ushering in a new era of commercial supersonic flight for nearly a decade now, and the company just revealed that it has signed a new partnership with NASA to put that exper

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23andMe set to go public via a Virgin Group SPAC merger

Genetics testing and genome research company 23andMe is set to go public via a merger with special purpose acquisition corp (SPAC) VG Acquisition Corp, a vehicle set up by Richard Branson and his comp

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Hainan Tropical Rainforest National Park established

01:25 South China's island province of Hainan established the Hainan Tropical Rainforest National Park in about two years during the 13th Five-Year Plan period (2015-20

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Branson's Virgin Orbit completes first successful launch

The mission makes LauncherOne the first liquid-fuelled and horizontally launched spacecraft to ever reach orbit.

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Virgin Orbit reaches orbit for the first time

Virgin Orbit launched its LauncherOne rocket to orbit for the first time today, with a successful demonstration mission that carried a handful of satellites and will attempt to deliver them to low Ear

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Pope prays for dead in Capitol rioting, appeals for calm

Pope Francis said Sunday that he is praying for those who died in the U.S. Capitol rioting and has appealed for calm to prevail in the United States to help safeguard t