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Archive for March, 2021

SpaceX launches 60 new Starlink internet satellites, nails latest rocket landing at sea

March 24th, 2021 by

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched a new batch of 60 Starlink internet satellites into orbit early Wednesday (March 24) and nailed a landing at sea.

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Watch live tonight! Arianespace Soyuz rocket launching 36 OneWeb satellites @ 10:47 pm ET

March 24th, 2021 by

The European launch provider Arianespace will use a Soyuz rocket to launch 36 satellites into orbit for the OneWeb internet constellation.

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‘We stand with you,’ NASA’s Perseverance rover team tells people of Boulder after mass shooting

March 23rd, 2021 by

A leader at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory paid tribute to Boulder, Colorado Tuesday (March 23) in the hours after 10 people were killed in a mass shooting in the city.

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See the Space Force’s 1st small rocket launch of 2021 in these photos

March 23rd, 2021 by

The Space Force launched its first small rocket of 2021 this month in an experiment that dumped water vapor into Earth’s ionosphere.

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SpaceX will launch a new Starlink fleet before sunrise Wednesday. Here’s how to watch.

March 23rd, 2021 by

SpaceX will launch its next fleet of Starlink satellites into orbit for the company’s broadband megaconstellation on Wednesday (March 24).

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Watch live @ 4:28 am ET: SpaceX launching 60 Starlink satellites

March 23rd, 2021 by

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch 60 satellites for the company’s Starlink satellite internet constellation Wednesday (March 24) at 4:28 a.m. EDT (0828 GMT). Watch it live!

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NASA’s Mars helicopter Ingenuity could fly for 1st time on April 8

March 23rd, 2021 by

We may be just over two weeks away from the first powered flight by an aircraft on an alien world.

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An asteroid the size of a semi-truck and two other space rocks are flying by Earth today

March 23rd, 2021 by

Three asteroids are making close approaches to our planet today (March 23), but don’t worry; the small rocks pose no threat as they drift by Earth, passing closer than the average distance between our planet and the moon.

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