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Watch NASA’s Artemis Orion moon spacecraft blow its top during testing (video)

Submit on Saturday, December 21st, 2024 01:11

NASA’s Orion spacecraft recently completed an 11-month test campaign, during which it was subjected to extreme conditions of a launch abort scenario and electromagnetic effects of lightning strikes.

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Rocket Lab scrubs Strix radar satellite launch for Synspective over ‘sensor data’

Submit on Friday, December 20th, 2024 23:11

A new exact launch date for the Strix satellite launch by Rocket Lab has yet to be announced.

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NASA Mars probe spies dusty, retired Insight lander from orbit (photo)

Submit on Friday, December 20th, 2024 23:11

Photos of the dormant InSight lander captured from Mars orbit are providing researchers new data on how dust accumulates and evolves over time on the Red Planet.

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Hubble’s ‘impossible’ planet explained? Gas giants may have formed fast in early universe

Submit on Friday, December 20th, 2024 22:11

An ancient exoplanet dated at 12.7 billion years old could have formed over a long period in a giant disk of gas, according to new JWST observations.

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The Ursid meteor shower peaks this weekend. Here’s what to expect from the final ‘shooting stars’ of 2024

Submit on Friday, December 20th, 2024 20:11

The last meteor shower of the year peaks in the early morning hours of Dec. 22.

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NASA’s Hubble and Chandra telescopes discover a strange ‘sideways’ black hole in a cosmic crime scene (image)

Submit on Friday, December 20th, 2024 20:11

Using the NASA space telescopes Hubble and Chandra astronomers have discovered a strange black hole that has been knocked on its side in a cosmic crime scene.

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US Space Force 5 years later: What has it accomplished so far, and where does it go from here?

Submit on Friday, December 20th, 2024 18:11

As the U.S. Space Force celebrates its fifth anniversary, the service’s leadership looked back on its accomplishments so far while looking ahead to the future.

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Watch Rocket Lab launch a private Earth-imaging satellite this morning

Submit on Friday, December 20th, 2024 12:11

Rocket Lab plans to launch a radar satellite for the Earth-observation company Synspective this morning (Dec. 20), and you can watch it live.

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