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Cryptocurrency billionaire watches SpaceX rocket launch on the way to his own SpaceX rocket launch

April 2nd, 2025 by me

Cryptocurrency billionaire Chun Wang and his Fram2 private astronaut crew got a two-for-one deal when they watched a rocket launch ahead of their own launch on March 31.

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DARPA accidentally detects SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket reentry by listening to Earth’s atmosphere

April 2nd, 2025 by me

Researchers with the U.S. military’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) have successfully used Earth’s atmosphere as a sensor to detect a distant disturbance.

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Watch chilling 1st views of Earth’s poles seen by SpaceX Fram2 astronauts (video)

April 1st, 2025 by me

The first images of Earth’s poles from the Fram2 Crew Dragon have been uploaded from the orbiting spacecraft, and the views are breathtaking.

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Million-mile-long solar whirlwind could help solve sun’s greatest mysteries (video)

April 1st, 2025 by me

Europe’s Solar Orbiter spacecraft has chronicled the development of the magnetic escape of plasma driven out by a powerful magnetic reconnection event.

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NASA’s X-59 ‘quiet’ supersonic jet aces key ‘cruise control’ test ahead of 1st flight

April 1st, 2025 by me

NASA’s “quiet” new supersonic jet, the X-59, just passed a key engine test, bringing it closer to its first flight later this year.

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Scientists used JWST instruments ‘wrong’ on purpose to capture direct images of exoplanets

April 1st, 2025 by me

The JWST was used in a creative way to capture direct images of distant worlds.

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Sun unleashes powerful M5.6 solar flare and Earth is in the firing line — are auroras incoming?

April 1st, 2025 by me

After last week’s explosive X-flare, sunspot AR4046 is at it again! Could this latest eruption bring stormy space weather to Earth?

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2 decades of Hubble Space Telescope data track changing seasons on Uranus

April 1st, 2025 by me

An analysis of two decades of data from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has provided fresh insights into the complex atmospheric changes on Uranus, including the effects of the sun’s radiation on its seasonal shifts.

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