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ESA’s newest launch system has faced its first full validation test, carrying LARES-2, a scientific mission of the Italian space agency ASI, and a secondary payload package of French, Italian and Slovenian research CubeSats.

Twitter filed a lawsuit against Elon Musk on Tuesday (July 12) seeking to hold the SpaceX and Tesla chief to his agreement to buy the social media company for $44 billion.

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NASA's Perseverance Mars rover has collected its 10th sample as it continues searching for the most promising rocks that might harbor traces of life for a future mission to return to Earth.

Now that the world has gotten a glimpse of what the James Webb Space Telescope is capable of, astronomers around the world await their opportunity to pore over the data gathered by the telescope.

The emission of fast radio bursts has been a mystery since their detection 15 years ago. A new strong and repeating signal points to rapidly spinning neutron stars as the source of these bright bursts of radiation.

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A Vega C rocket lifted off from Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana on Wednesday (July 13) after a two-hour delay at 9:13 a.m. EDT (1313 GMT), carrying seven satellites to Earth orbit.

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Flight VV21 clears the launch pad to begin the inaugural mission of ESA’s new Vega-C rocket from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana.

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The XL-Calibur telescope will measure the X-ray emissions from black holes and neutron stars in our galaxy.

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Rocket Lab’s Electron launcher lifts off from New Zealand on the NROL-162 mission. Credit: Rocket Lab

Rocket Lab launched a classified payload into orbit Wednesday for the National Reconnaissance Office, the first of two back-to-back Rocket Lab missions for the U.S. government’s spy satellite agency.

Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a Vega-C rocket with the Italian Space Agency’s LARES 2 satellite for experimental physics research. Text updates will appear automatically below. Follow us on Twitter.