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Could reusable rockets make solar geoengineering less risky?

Injecting aerosols into the atmosphere – but at higher altitudes than planes can reach – could cool the climate while avoiding some of the downsides of lower-altitude solar geoengineering

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Rhiannon Adam, United Kingdom, Finalist, Professional competition, Creative, Sony World Photography Awards 2025

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Eerie image of a space-bound rocket among photo contest finalists

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Maybe NASA’s SLS should be cancelled – but not by Elon Musk

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Incredible images show the moment SpaceX's Starship exploded

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Incredible images show the moment SpaceX's Starship exploded

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Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket reaches orbit on first launch

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SpaceX prepares for Starship flight with first 'chopstick' landing

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2X519P5 Cape Canaveral, United States of America. 05 May, 2024. The Boeing CST-100 Starliner spacecraft on top of the ULA Atlas V rocket with crew gantry in position on Space Launch Complex-41 at the Kennedy Space Center, May 5, 2024, in Cape Canaveral, Florida. Starliner is expected to launch May 6th on the first manned Crew Flight Test carrying astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams to the International Space Station. Credit: Joel Kowsky/NASA Photo/Alamy Live News

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Starliner launch: When is Boeing testing its crewed space capsule?

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Debris around the Space X Starship launch pad

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SpaceX’s Starship created a volcano-like explosion in first launch

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SpaceX's Starship taking off on 14 March

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Starship launch: Third flight reaches space but is lost on re-entry

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An artist's impression of Orion re-entering Earth's atmosphere

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SpaceX aims to let astronauts avoid a radio blackout during re-entry

When spacecraft re-enter Earth’s atmosphere, friction heats them up and creates a plasma sheath that stops communications – but SpaceX thinks its Starlink satellites could solve the problem

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Starship launch: Next SpaceX flight test is expected this month

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Prototype rocket engine burns itself up for fuel as it flies

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The Peregrine lunar lander may not make it to the moon

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The first Vulcan rocket launch will carry a private lander to the moon

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