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Archive for December 16th, 2020

So ‘asteroid’ 2020 SO was actually 1960s space junk. It may be the first of many to come.

December 16th, 2020 by

The detective story of 2020 SO, an erstwhile asteroid now formally identified as a 54-year-old piece of space junk, sounds like a wild yarn today but may become the first installment in a long series.

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Watch SpaceX’s Starship SN8 do a wild landing flip and then explode in this awesome video

December 16th, 2020 by

SpaceX shared amazing footage of its Starship rocket as it belly-flopped through the atmosphere and exploded upon touchdown.

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NASA SLS megarocket testing stalled by temperature issues

December 16th, 2020 by

Time is running out for NASA to send the Space Launch System aloft for an uncrewed moon-roundtrip mission by November 2021.

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