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Starship reaches orbit on 14th test flight (opens the original)
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After 13 previous suborbital test flights, Starship finally reached orbit on test flight 14. SpaceX’s launch window opened at 8:15 a.m. EDT on Monday, Sept. 28, and the rocket cleared the tower at Starbase, Texas, at 8:48 a.m. EDT. Just over three hours later, the flight ended in a fireball in the northern Pacific Ocean. The flight plan called for Starship to settle into an orbit roughly 170 miles (275 kilometers) high and circle the planet about six times. Along the way, it would release 26 Sta
SpaceX closes out SES's O3b mPower constellation (opens the original)
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On Thursday, Sept. 10 at 5:00 a.m. EST, a Long March 2D rocket is set to lift off from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northern China’s Gobi Desert carrying an undisclosed payload, according to tracking from Next Spaceflight. The rocket is operated by the state-owned space contractor China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC). Later that day, on Thursday, Sept. 10 at 11:37 a.m. EST, SpaceX will launch the USSF-153 mission for the U.S. Space Force aboard a Falcon 9 from Vandenbe
Scientists watch as two satellites burn (opens the original)
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The last two spacecraft of the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Cluster mission plunged into Earth’s atmosphere this week, closing out 26 years of research into the planet’s magnetic environment — and handing scientists a front-row seat to their destruction. ESA’s Samba spacecraft reentered the atmosphere on Aug. 31 at 5:39 p.m. EDT, disintegrating over a remote section of the South Pacific Ocean. Tango, the last of the four Cluster satellites, followed less than 24 hours later, on Sept. 1 at 5:30
Microbes may make it on the Moon (opens the original)
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According to a new study, bacteria and fungi shed by humans could survive on the lunar surface for up to a week or longer. The study, published in Science Advances Aug. 19, paired microbiologists with researchers who model lunar surface conditions. Led by Prabal Saxena, research space scientist at Goddard Space Flight Center, the team mapped where five common microbes could withstand the ultraviolet (UV) radiation near the Moon’s poles. The researchers expected surviving microbes, if there were
Roman Space Telescope lifts off (opens the original)
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The journey of a million miles began with a successful launch Sunday morning. NASA’s next-generation observatory, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, took off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Aug. 30 at 7:26 a.m. EDT. A SpaceX Falcon Heavy — the company’s heavy-lift rocket, composed of three Falcon 9 boosters strapped together — carried the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope for about 31 minutes before the spacecraft separated and struck out on its own toward the second Sun-Earth Lagran
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