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Space Perspective completes 1st uncrewed balloon flight to the edge of Earth’s atmosphere (video)

Submit on Tuesday, September 24th, 2024 22:11

Space Perspective completed the first uncrewed test flight of its Spaceship Neptune Excelsior balloon ride to the edge of Earth’s atmosphere, and expects crewed flights to begin next year.

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New image of China’s secret space plane shows delta-wing design

Submit on Tuesday, September 24th, 2024 21:11

Images captured by spacecraft tracker appear to show China’s mysterious space plane sporting a delta-wing design.

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Orion spacecraft can shield Artemis astronauts from deep-space radiation, study shows

Submit on Tuesday, September 24th, 2024 20:11

Data from NASA’s Artemis 1 moon mission has provided valuable space radiation measurements, which validate spacecraft performance and will help guide deep-space human spaceflight.

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Boeing Starliner astronaut Suni Williams takes ISS command as 8-day mission turns into 8 months (video)

Submit on Tuesday, September 24th, 2024 19:11

NASA astronaut Suni Williams did not expect to be taking command of the International Space Station when her eight-day Starliner Crew Flight Test launched in June. Now, the key to the station is hers.

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‘Missing link’ black hole lurks in strange binary system with red giant star

Submit on Tuesday, September 24th, 2024 17:11

Astronomers have discovered a “missing link:” a tiny black hole lurking with a red giant star in a strange and difficult-to-explain binary system.

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SpaceX fishes Starship Super Heavy booster out of the sea (photo)

Submit on Tuesday, September 24th, 2024 05:11

SpaceX has retrieved from the sea the first-stage booster that flew on its latest Starship test flight, which launched this past June.

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X-rays from a nuclear explosion could redirect an asteroid

Submit on Tuesday, September 24th, 2024 04:11

Scientists have found nuclear weapons could actually help deflect an incoming cosmic impact — not by blowing an asteroid up, but by showering it with X-ray radiation.

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China launches 10 satellites on 2 rockets less than 6 hours apart (video)

Submit on Tuesday, September 24th, 2024 04:11

China launched separate sets of Earth-observation and “Internet of Things” satellites into orbit on Friday (Sept. 20) on two different missions.

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