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Archive for June, 2024

SpaceX launching 22 Starlink satellites from Florida tonight

June 8th, 2024 by

SpaceX plans to launch yet another batch of its Starlink internet satellites from Florida’s Space Coast tonight (June 7).

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Virgin Galactic eyes June 8 for final commercial spaceflight on VSS Unity spaceplane

June 8th, 2024 by

Virgin Galactic aims to launch its seventh commercial spaceflight mission on June 8 during the final flight of its VSS Unity suborbital spaceplane.

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Jupiter’s raging gas cyclones may actually mirror Earth’s oceans. Here’s how

June 8th, 2024 by

Jupiter and Earth’s oceans have more in common than you might think.

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Weird magnetic fields of Uranus and Neptune may come from strange space chemistry

June 8th, 2024 by

An exotic molecule stabilized by intense pressure found in the icy depths of Neptune and Uranus could help explain a long-standing mystery.

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US military test launches 2 unarmed intercontinental ballistic missiles in 2 days

June 8th, 2024 by

The United States Air Force and U.S. Space Force conducted two routine test launches of unarmed intercontinental ballistic missiles this week from Vandenberg Space Force Base.

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Doctor Who ‘Dot and Bubble’: Why are space slugs eating influencers in Finetime?

June 7th, 2024 by

In the fifth episode of “Doctor Who,” called”‘Dot and Bubble,” a city has been invaded by giant, human-eating space slugs, and they seem to have a plan.

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South Korea creates new KASA space agency, sets sights on the moon and Mars

June 7th, 2024 by

South Korea has announced the creation of a new space agency and is aiming to land its own spacecraft on the moon and Mars in the coming decades.

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Scientists find slowest spinning ‘radio neutron star’ — it breaks all the dead-star rules

June 7th, 2024 by

Taking almost a full hour to rotate rather than fractions of a second, ASKAP?J1935+2148 is the slowest spinning radio-blasting neutron star ever seen.

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