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A new super-altitude satellite will observe the weather on Earth — and in space
Today, the latest member of a family of storm detection satellites that will head into space, carrying high-resolution cameras that…
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Astronomers want to save the dark sky from satellites
Last Thursday, on same day SpaceX launched 49 Starlink Internet relay satellites — joining more than 2,000 others in the…
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How to deal with boosters and other giant space junk
No alarm you, but the SpaceX Falcon 9 second stage booster is on its way to crash into the moon.…
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An important part of sci-fi space travel will probably just be fantasy
In Poul Anderson Novel 1970 Tau Zero, a spacecraft crew seeks to travel to the star Beta Virginis in hopes…
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For Earth study next, NASA may need to throw some shade
The HabEx team proposed a 4-meter telescope paired with a heliograph and a 52-meter-diameter shadow. (Bertrand Mennesson, a NASA JPL…
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2021 is the Year Space Tourism is inaugurated. But for whom?
Others also question the purpose of space tourism. “These are technological achievements, there is no doubt about that,” said Kathryn…
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The James Webb Space Telescope is finally ready for launch
More recently, some astronomers and astrophysicists have argued that NASA should rename its new flagship observatory. In a March comments…
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This is how 3 space companies aim to replace the ISS
At any space station, NASA will be the “anchor tenant,” Mastracchio said. But as the commercial space travel market grows,…
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The US National Space Council is back and focused on security
On Wednesday morning, US Vice President Kamala Harris led the Biden administration’s inaugural National Space Council meeting, at which she…
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NASA really wants its spacecraft to crash into an asteroid
Although Dimorphos resembles many other near-Earth asteroids, the DART team selected it as a target because it is a base…
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