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Archive for April 25th, 2023

ULA’s Vulcan rocket launch debut delayed by fireball during testing

April 25th, 2023 by

United Launch Alliance’s plans for a first launch of its new Vulcan rocket have been complicated by a violent explosion during testing of the rocket’s upper stage.

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Watch SpaceX launch 46 Starlink satellites, land rocket at sea Tuesday morning

April 25th, 2023 by

SpaceX will launch 46 Starlink satellites and land the returning rocket at sea Tuesday morning (April 25), and you can watch the action live.

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Why did SpaceX Starship’s debut launch cause so much damage to the pad?

April 25th, 2023 by

SpaceX thought Starship’s orbital launch mount could handle the vehicle’s tremendous thrust during its debut launch last week. But that wasn’t the case.

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This is our 1st detailed look at Mars’ most mysterious moon Deimos (photos)

April 25th, 2023 by

The asteroid-like Deimos may have come from planet Mars, according to new data from an Emirati spacecraft. But the debate over the moon’s origin story is not over yet.

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SpaceX launches world’s 1st 5G satellite to bring global connectivity to Internet of Things

April 25th, 2023 by

The Sateliot “GroundBreaker” is the first of a constellation of over 250 spacecraft designed to communicate with terrestrial 5G cell towers and fill gaps in data networks worldwide.

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Watch NASA assemble the massive Artemis 2 rocket that will take humans back to the moon (video)

April 25th, 2023 by

In a video shared by NASA, the Space Launch System core stage rocket for Artemis 2 can be seen undergoing assembly at the Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans.

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Russian spacewalk to move airlock outside space station postponed

April 25th, 2023 by

A Russian spacewalk to move an experiment airlock from one International Space Station module to another has been postponed, the country’s federal space corporation Roscosmos announced.

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James Webb Space Telescope faces sensor glitch in deep space

April 25th, 2023 by

NASA is investigating some sensor trouble on one of the James Webb Space Telescope’s instruments as the deep-space observatory continues work.

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