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  • Elon Musk unveils new Mars rocket prototype, expects missions in months

    Elon Musk showed a crowd of space enthusiasts and reporters at SpaceX’s rocket development site late on Saturday in the remote village of Boca Chica, Texas, animations of Starship landing on the moon and Mars and predicted that the rocket's first orbital flight could come in the next six months, followed by missions to space with humans aboard the next year.

  • NASA, Air Force define cutting-edge next-generation space computer

    It's not every day a customer wants a computer that can do everything from direct a landing on the surface of Mars, to control descent onto a speeding asteroid or coordinate a flight of satellites - but NASA and the Air Force's space group aren't everyday customers.

  • IBM processors powering Mars mission

    The IBM processors that power the Xbox 360, many cars and some of the world’s fastest supercomputers have launched into space on NASA’s Phoenix Mars Lander.

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