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Italian radar satellite rides SpaceX rocket into polar orbit Variables outside SpaceX's control kept the Falcon 9 rocket and Italy's newest COSMO-SkyMed radar remote sensing satellite on the ground four straight days. Bad weather prevented launch Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, then a cruise ...
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SpaceX double vision: These photos show two Falcon 9 rockets on their pads for back-to-back launches If a recent SpaceX rocket photo has you seeing double, you're not alone. A Twitter post Monday (Jan. 31) shows two Falcon 9 rockets on their pads at NASA's Kennedy Space Center (KSC) and the nearby Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, ahead of their ...
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Ancient solar storm smashed Earth at the wrong part of the sun's cycle — and scientists are concerned An extremely powerful solar storm pummeled our planet 9,200 years ago, leaving permanent scars on the ice buried deep below Greenland and Antarctica. A new study of those ancient ice samples has found that this ...
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Hubble Space Telescope spots an 'oddball' starburst The Hubble Space Telescope snapped a stellar look at a strange cosmic starburst. In a new image taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, the dwarf galaxy NGC 1705 shines in a cloud of bright light and red clouds. The tiny, irregularly-shaped galaxy, ...
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Backyard astronomy with a small scope This deep exposure brings out many beautiful targets within the familiar constellation Orion the Hunter. The red circle among the passing clouds is Barnard's Loop. The Horsehead Nebula is visible near Orion's famous belt stars.
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Astronaut Jessica Watkins will be the first Black woman to spend 6 months in space STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: NASA has some big plans sending missions to the Moon and to Mars. And in April, NASA will team up with SpaceX to send a crew to the International Space Station, ...
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SpaceX launches Italian remote sensing satellite in spectacular fashion After three weather delays and a scrub Sunday due to a wayward cruise ship, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket finally blasted off Monday on its fifth try, putting on a spectacular sunset sky show as it climbed toward orbit, dropping off its first stage booster ...
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An Electrifying View of the Heart of the Milky Way The image, taken by the MeerKAT radio telescope, an array of 64 antennas spread across five miles of desert in northern South Africa, reveals a storm of activity in the central region of the Milky Way, with threads of radio emission laced and kinked ...
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Rings in 'tree stump' crater found on Mars illuminate red planet's past climate The image was taken last year by the camera on board the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter, a spacecraft launched by ESA and Roscosmos, Russia's space agency, that arrived at Mars in 2016 and began its mission in 2018. The crater in the image is in an area of Mars ...
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As James Webb Space Telescope fixes eye on universe, Colorado companies are keeping an eye on the spacecraft (Photo provided by Ball Aerospace) Colorado-based Ball Aerospace designed and built the 18-section, 21-foot mirror for the James Webb Space Telescope. The telescope, which launched Dec. 25, is designed to capture images from galaxies and some of the first ...
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