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Archive for February, 2021

Spacewalking astronauts prepare International Space Station for new solar arrays

February 28th, 2021 by

Two spacewalking astronauts began preparing the International Space Station (ISS) for new solar arrays on Sunday (Feb. 28).

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A SpaceX rocket will launch a Starlink satellite fleet tonight and you can watch it live. Here’s how.

February 28th, 2021 by

SpaceX will launch its next batch of Starlink satellites on Sunday (Feb. 28) and you can watch it live online.

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Vice President Kamala Harris calls NASA astronaut on International Space Station

February 28th, 2021 by

U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris made a truly cosmic call to the International Space Station last week to celebrate the milestone spaceflight of NASA astronaut Victor Glover.

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Watch live now! NASA astronauts spacewalking outside International Space Station

February 28th, 2021 by

NASA astronauts Kate Rubins and Victor Glover will take a 6.5-hour spacewalk outside the International Space Station on Sunday, Feb. 2. Watch it live!

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India launches Brazil’s Amazonia-1 Earth observation satellite and 18 others into orbit

February 28th, 2021 by

A Brazilian Earth observation satellite soared to space aboard an Indian rocket late Saturday (Feb. 27) along with 18 satellites from the United States and India.

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Here’s what the Space.com Forum is discussing this week: Mars, memories, and more!

February 27th, 2021 by

This week, the community was left in awe at all the images and sounds coming to us from NASA’s Perseverance rover.

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On This Day in Space! Feb. 27, 1942: J.S. Hey discovers radio emissions from the sun

February 27th, 2021 by

On Feb. 27, 1942, a British physicist named James Stanley Hey accidentally found out that the sun emits radio waves. See how it happened in our “On This Day In Space” series!

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Mysterious stripes spotted over Russia in satellite images — and NASA is perplexed

February 27th, 2021 by

Scientists can’t agree on why these hills in the Russian Arctic ripple with stripes.

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