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Archive for September 9th, 2023

The US Space Force has a new mission statement to secure everything ‘in, from and to space’

September 9th, 2023 by

The United States Space Force has unveiled a concise new mission statement after the service’s top officer criticized the previous statement as ‘long and cumbersome.’

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Nightfox 100V night vision binoculars review

September 9th, 2023 by

The Nightfox 100V is a good budget pair of digital night vision binoculars but it takes a bunch of batteries to power it.

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NASA may have unknowingly found and killed alien life on Mars 50 years ago, scientist claims

September 9th, 2023 by

One researcher hypothesizes that experiments carried out by NASA’s Viking landers in 1976 could have inadvertently killed microbes living in Martian rocks. Other experts are skeptical.

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Hurricane Lee looks absolutely terrifying in this footage from inside its eye (video)

September 9th, 2023 by

Storm chasers with the Air Force Reserve’s Hurricane Hunters caught terrifying footage from inside the eye of Hurricane Lee on Sept. 8, showing the storm brimming with lightning.

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India’s lunar lander finds 1st evidence of a moonquake in decades

September 9th, 2023 by

The possible moonquake was detected by India’s Chandrayaan-3 mission on its third day on the lunar surface.

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NASA’s mighty SLS megarocket for Artemis moonshots ‘unaffordable’ for sustained exploration, audit finds

September 9th, 2023 by

NASA needs to be more transparent about the costs and schedules for its Space Launch System moon rocket, a newly released audit has found.

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Ultra-powerful space explosion, 1st of its kind, may have been triggered by black hole star-destroyer

September 9th, 2023 by

A “Luminous Fast Cooler” explosion that emits as much energy in weeks as the sun will over 10 billion years could be the result of a black hole wrecking a star.

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Watch SpaceX launch 22 Starlink satellites to orbit tonight

September 9th, 2023 by

SpaceX plans to launch 22 more of its Starlink internet satellites to orbit tonight (Sept. 8), and you can watch the action live.

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