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SpaceX launches advanced GPS satellite for US Space Force, sticks rocket landing at sea

"What a beautiful view of the first stage landing," Youmei Zhou, a SpaceX propulsion engineer, said during the company's live launch commentary. The GPS III SV05 satellite mission is the second to launch ...

As China's space ambitions grow, NASA tells Congress it needs more money to compete

The Washington Post

The Washington Post

China's crewed launch follows spacecraft landings on the moon and Mars. 'Watch the Chinese,' the NASA Administrator has warned. Error: ...

Mystery solved? Dust cloud caused Betelgeuse star's weird dimming, study finds

These images, taken with the SPHERE instrument on the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope, show the surface of the red supergiant star Betelgeuse during its unprecedented dimming, which happened in late 2019 and early 2020.

You can watch SpaceX launch a new GPS satellite for the US Space Force today. Here's how.

The flight — the 18th launch this year for SpaceX and its workhorse Falcon 9 rocket — is scheduled to blast off from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station here during a 15-minute window that opens at 12:09 p.m. EST (1609 GMT).

Physicists bring human-scale object to near standstill, reaching a quantum state

MIT scientists have cooled a 10-kilogram object to a near standstill, using LIGO's precise measurements of its 40-kilogram mirrors. Shown here are LIGO optics technicians examining one of LIGO's mirrors. Credit: Caltech/MIT/LIGO Lab. To the human eye, ...

Hubble Space Telescope sidelined by issue with its 1980s computer

"There is no definitive timeline yet as to when this will be completed, tested, and brought back to operational status," the Hubble operations team said. June 13, 2021, the Hubble Space Telescope shut down after an issue with a 1980s-era payload computer.

SpaceX's next astronaut launch for NASA delayed a week by 'visiting traffic' at space station

The foursome will leave Earth atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida for what is expected to be a six-month mission, a typical space station tour of duty.

Space sustainability rating to shine light on debris problem

The global initiative, launched by the World Economic Forum, is the first of its kind. In a situation in which no single government or authority has the power to set and enforce strict rules of behavior for all space-faring organizations, this project promises to be a ...

As China's space ambitions grow, NASA tells Congress it needs more money to compete

Seattle Times

Seattle Times

In an effort to galvanize NASA's return to the moon, former Vice President Mike Pence, in 2019, sought to re-create the 1960s Cold War space race, when the United States beat the Soviet Union to the lunar surface. But this time the role of rival was played by ...

Study of young, chaotic star system reveals planet formation secrets

A team of scientists using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) to study the young star Elias 2-27 have confirmed that gravitational instabilities play a key role in planet formation, and have for the first time directly measured the mass of ...