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Archive for April 21st, 2023

Watch Cygnus cargo spacecraft leave the space station Friday morning

April 21st, 2023 by

Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus cargo spacecraft will depart the International Space Station on Friday morning (April 21), and you can watch the action live.

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Watching SpaceX’s Starship launch as the world’s largest rocket felt simply unreal (video)

April 21st, 2023 by

Here’s what it was like to see (and hear) SpaceX’s Starship, the biggest and most powerful rocket ever built, lift off for the first time.

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Dead NASA satellite crashes to Earth over the Sahara Desert

April 21st, 2023 by

NASA’s dead, 660-pound (300 kilograms) RHESSI spacecraft reentered Earth’s atmosphere on Wednesday night (April 19) near the Sudan-Egypt border.

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SpaceX veterans create startup to power spacecraft with moon water

April 21st, 2023 by

Argos Space received $2 million of funding recently to create water-powered spacecraft. The company aims to start in Earth orbit and then mine the moon for more water.

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Solar eclipse from space! Watch the moon’s shadow sweep across Earth in satellite footage (video)

April 21st, 2023 by

The hybrid solar eclipse of April 19 was spotted from space, when a Japanese satellite caught the shadow of the moon racing across the face of Earth.

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SpaceX Starship’s debut launch attempt seen from space (satellite photo)

April 21st, 2023 by

An American weather satellite witnessed the semi-successful debut launch of SpaceX’s Starship megarocket from space.

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SpaceX Starship’s explosive test flight: What we saw

April 21st, 2023 by

SpaceX’s Starship packed a lot of action into its four minutes of flight today (April 20). Here are some important moments that caught our eye.

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Relive SpaceX’s explosive 1st Starship test flight in these incredible launch photos

April 21st, 2023 by

SpaceX launched a fully stacked Starship on April 20 in an epic first test flight that led to some incredible launch pictures.

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