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Archive for November, 2023

ISS astronauts watch Russian cargo ship burn up in Earth’s atmosphere (photos)

November 30th, 2023 by

NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli watched Russia’s Progress MS-23 cargo ship burn up in Earth’s atmosphere just hours after it undocked from the International Space Station.

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Watch Europe’s new Ariane 6 rocket fire its engines in new timelapse video

November 30th, 2023 by

A newly released video from the European Space Agency highlights a recent wet dress rehearsal for the space agency’s new heavy-lift launch vehicle, and its 7-minute hot fire engine test.

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Artemis 2 moon astronauts autograph their own rocket 1 year before launch

November 30th, 2023 by

Just one year before flying around the moon, the Artemis 2 astronauts autographed a part of the massive lunar rocket that will send them aloft in late 2024.

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China releases 1st images of complete Tiangong space station (photos)

November 30th, 2023 by

The crew of China’s Shenzhou 16 mission captured incredible images of the Tiangong Space Station as they departed on their way back to Earth.

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Satellites watch world’s largest iceberg break away from Antarctica (photos)

November 30th, 2023 by

The world’s largest iceberg, known as A23a, has broken loose and is moving past the northern tip of the Antarctic Peninsula in new satellite images from the Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission.

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Firefly Aerospace’s new rocket engine spouts green flames in 1st ‘hot fire’ test (photo)

November 30th, 2023 by

Firefly Aerospace shared a photo of the first hot fire test of its new Miranda engine, slated for use aboard the upcoming Antares 330 rocket being developed along with Northrop Grumman.

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This rare exoplanet system has 6 ‘sub-Neptunes’ with mathematically perfect orbits

November 29th, 2023 by

A newfound, and impressively well-maintained, planetary system full of sub-Neptunes could reveal why our solar system lacks such a world.

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Scientists just found a planet-forming disk beyond our Milky Way for the 1st time — yes, they’re thrilled

November 29th, 2023 by

Astronomers have spotted an accretion disk feeding matter to a young star and helping it grow in a galaxy outside the Milky Way for the first time.

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