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SpaceX launching 23 Starlink satellites from Florida today

Submit on Thursday, October 31st, 2024 02:11

SpaceX plans to launch 23 more of its Starlink internet satellites today (Oct. 30), during a four-hour window that opens at 5:10 p.m. ET (2110 GMT).

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Astrophotographer captures comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS growing an anti-tail (photos)

Submit on Thursday, October 31st, 2024 02:11

Astrophotographer Miguel Claro captured Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) from the Dark Sky Alqueva reserve in Portugal on Oct. 13, 2024 as the comet was displaying an ‘anti-tail.’

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NASA’s Perseverance rover unexpectedly finds green-ish spots on Mars

Submit on Thursday, October 31st, 2024 01:12

NASA’s Perseverance rover found strange green spots in Martian rock, potentially indicating a past interaction with liquid water.

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NASA announces 9 possible moon landing sites for Artemis 3 lunar mission

Submit on Thursday, October 31st, 2024 01:12

NASA has refined its list of potential landing sites near the moon’s south pole for its Artemis 3 mission, which aims to return astronauts to the lunar surface no earlier than 2026.

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Debris from satellite breakup threatens other spacecraft, animation shows

Submit on Thursday, October 31st, 2024 00:11

Debris from the broken-apart Intelsat 33e telecom satellite is spreading across geosynchronous orbit, threatening spacecraft in this precious region of space, an animation shows.

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Voyager 1 spacecraft phones home with transmitter that hasn’t been used since 1981

Submit on Thursday, October 31st, 2024 00:11

Following recent communication issues, NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft resorted to a backup radio transmitter that has been inactive since 1981.

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Cubesats on Europe’s Hera asteroid mission phone home after Oct. 7 launch

Submit on Wednesday, October 30th, 2024 22:11

The two cubesats will assist in the most detailed study ever of a binary asteroid.

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Saturn’s moon Titan may have a 6-mile-thick crust of methane ice — could life be under there?

Submit on Wednesday, October 30th, 2024 21:11

A 6-mile-thick shell of methane ice on Saturn’s moon Titan could assist in the hunt for life signs arising from this moon’s vast subsurface ocean.

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