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Archive for February 8th, 2023

US military begins recovering Chinese spy balloon debris (photos)

February 8th, 2023 by

Recovery teams have already found some pieces of the Chinese surveillance balloon, which an F-22 fighter jet shot down on Saturday (Feb. 4).

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Mysterious Russian satellite breaks up in orbit, generating cloud of debris

February 8th, 2023 by

The mysterious Russian satellite Kosmos 2499 broke apart in early January, and the U.S. Space Force is already tracking 85 pieces of debris from the incident.

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SpaceX launch and more ‘photobombed’ by February’s Full Snow Moon (photos)

February 8th, 2023 by

Images from all around the world celebrated the ‘micromoon’ of February 2023, including pictures of monuments and a SpaceX Falcon 9 launch.

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Previous Chinese spy balloons over US were classified as UFOs: report

February 8th, 2023 by

Some previous detections of Chinese surveillance balloons in U.S. airspace were initially categorized as “unidentified aerial phenomena,” according to a report in The New York Times.

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Accutron and Bulova debut new Astronaut and Lunar Pilot timepieces

February 8th, 2023 by

Two watch brands are celebrating the historic associations they had with the U.S. space program. Accutron is reviving its “Astronaut” line, while Bulova is continuing its “Lunar Pilot” series.

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Intuitive Machines now targeting moon’s south pole for delayed lunar landing mission

February 8th, 2023 by

A United States company may touch down on the moon for the first time in 2023, but who will make the debut landing is hard to predict.

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Stack it up! ULA assembles 1st Vulcan Centaur rocket ahead of debut launch (photos)

February 8th, 2023 by

ULA’s heavy-lift Vulcan Centaur rocket could launch for the first time in the next few months, if testing continues to go well.

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‘Failed star’ brown dwarf imaged in nearby star cluster (photos)

February 8th, 2023 by

Astronomers have directly imaged a brown dwarf, a so-called “failed star,” in the Hyades cluster, which lies 150 light-years from Earth.

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