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SpaceX catches Super Heavy booster on Starship Flight 7 test but loses upper stage (video, photos)

Submit on Friday, January 17th, 2025 07:11

SpaceX pulled off a launch-tower catch of Starship’s Super Heavy booster during a test flight today (Jan. 16) but lost the vehicle’s upper stage.

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Watch SpaceX Starship explode over Atlantic Ocean on Flight Test 7 (videos)

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The upper stage of SpaceX’s Starship megarocket exploded over the Atlantic Ocean during the vehicle’s Flight 7 test today (Jan. 16), and lots of people saw the sky show.

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‘Dune’ director David Lynch dies at 78

Submit on Friday, January 17th, 2025 06:11

An obituary for iconic filmmaker David Lynch who died Jan. 16, 2025.

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Centuries-old supernova guides James Webb Space Telescope through an interstellar gap

Submit on Friday, January 17th, 2025 04:11

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has captured the first exquisite images of an interstellar patch of sky, about 11,000 light-years away in the constellation Cassiopeia.

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Astronauts repair black hole observatory, inspect cosmic ray detector on ISS spacewalk

Submit on Friday, January 17th, 2025 03:11

NASA astronauts Nick Hague and Suni Williams completed a six-hour spacewalk to repair and upgrade equipment outside the International Space Station on Thursday (Jan. 16).

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Major milestone! India becomes 4th nation to dock satellites in orbit

Submit on Friday, January 17th, 2025 03:11

India successfully docked its two SpaDex satellites in Earth orbit yesterday (Jan. 15), becoming just the fourth country to pull off such a satellite meetup.

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Our warming Earth: 2024 was hottest year on record, NASA says

Submit on Friday, January 17th, 2025 02:11

2024 was the warmest year on record, according to NASA data. The global average temperature was 2.3 degrees Fahrenheit above the mid-20th-century baseline.

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Trump’s space policy won’t catch Europe off guard, ESA chief says

Submit on Friday, January 17th, 2025 00:11

The head of the European Space Agency says that ESA is ready for any changes in NASA’s direction that U.S. President-elect Donald Trump may make.

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