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Archive for February, 2025

Boeing plans to lay off hundreds of employees working on NASA’s SLS moon rocket: reports

February 19th, 2025 by me

Boeing is preparing to lay off roughly 200 employees working on the Space Launch System rocket as it braces for the possibility that its contracts with NASA may not be renewed after they end in March.

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Japan’s Resilience moon lander aces lunar flyby ahead of historic touchdown try (photo)

February 19th, 2025 by me

Resilience, a lunar lander built by Japanese company ispace, zoomed within a mere 5,220 miles (8,400 kilometers) of the moon on Feb. 14.

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‘Captain America: Brave New World’ introduces adamantium into the MCU, but did it come from space in the comics?

February 19th, 2025 by me

No Weapon X yet, but Captain America: Brave New World marks the arrival of adamantium to Earth-616 in a departure from its comic book origins.

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Is Pluto a planet or not? Who cares! Our love for the King of the Kuiper Belt is stronger than ever 95 years later

February 19th, 2025 by me

On the 95th anniversary of its discovery, Pluto remains one of the most beloved and enigmatic worlds in our solar system, whether you call it a planet or not.

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Watch Rocket Lab launch sharp-eyed Earth-observation satellite today

February 19th, 2025 by me

Rocket Lab will launch a high-resolution imaging satellite for the company Blacksky this evening (Feb. 18), and you can watch the action live.

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SpaceX to land rocket off coast of The Bahamas for 1st time during Starlink launch today

February 19th, 2025 by me

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch 23 Starlink satellites today (Feb. 18) and then land in the Atlantic Ocean near The Bahamas —a first for the company.

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Imagine Dragons ‘Starfield’ video game anthem will beam to Earth from the moon

February 19th, 2025 by me

Imagine Dragons’ song ‘Children of the Sky’ will be beamed to Earth from a lunar data center as part of the private IM-2 moon mission launching as early as Feb. 26 atop a SpaceX Falcon 9.

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Exoplanet with iron rain has violent winds ‘like something out of science fiction’

February 19th, 2025 by me

Astronomers have discovered a powerful jet stream raging through the atmosphere of an ultra-hot Jupiter exoplanet ravaged by liquid iron rains.

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