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NASA takes 1 Artemis launch date off the board, considers another

ORLANDO, Fla. — NASA is pushing back a test of fixes on the launch pad for Artemis I to later in September, which has taken one potential launch date off the board.

Orlando Sentinel

Signs of life on Mars may be deeper than any current rover can dig — study

Ionizing radiation may destroy the signs of life Curiosity and Perseverance seek. Only ESA's delayed Rosalind Franklin rover stands a chance.

Inverse

10 years ago this week, a groundbreaking NASA technology changed spaceflight forever

The Dawn mission used state-of-the-art ion thrusters to change orbits between bodies in visits to Vesta and Ceres, two Solar System time capsules.

Inverse

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NASA's Moon Mission Pushed Back, Again

NASA is now targeting September 27 as the earliest possible launch date for its uncrewed Artemis 1 mission to the Moon, the agency said in a blog post Monday. The date would depend on engineering teams successfully carrying out a test to fuel up the Space Launch System rocket, and…

Asharq Al-Awsat

La Niña 3: This Time It’s Really, Really Personal

According to the Bureau of Meteorology, La Niña is back for a third visit, and this time she isn't taking any prisoners.

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Science last week | NASA turns Webb images to sound, evidence of oldest-known amputation and more

Here are some of the major discoveries and findings in the field of science last week.

The Hindu

Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin suffers rocket failure during uncrewed mission

WASHINGTON: A rocket from Jeff Bezos' space company Blue Origin failed mid-flight shortly after liftoff on Monday, aborting its cargo capsule to safety before crashing into the Texas desert, according to the company and a live video stream of the mission.

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Harpoons, robots and lasers: how to capture defunct satellites and other space junk and bring it back to Earth

More than half of the thousands of satellites in orbit are now defunct, and this accumulation of floating space debris has been described as a “fatal problem” for current and future space missions and human space travel.

The Conversation

Blue Origin rocket suffers severe malfunction in flight

The capsule atop the rocket was mercifully uncrewed, but now the company is scrambling to find out what went wrong.

Inverse

50 years ago, one speech revolutionized the Space Age and took us to the Moon

President John F. Kennedy's words are emblazoned throughout history.

Inverse

This space diamond could transform manufacturing on Earth

Researchers took a closer look at lonsdaleite, a mineral found in meteorites that is even harder than diamonds. It could potentially be recreated on Earth in labs — and change manufacturing forever.

Inverse

‘We’ve experienced an anomaly’: Bezos’s latest Blue Origin launch fails

New Shepard rocket fails shortly after launch, but uncrewed capsule jettisons successfully

The Guardian - US

A private mission wants to find alien life on the Solar System's most unrelenting planet

The Venus Life Finder mission wants to find microbes on the place they shouldn't be able to survive.

Inverse

Bezos rocket fails during liftoff, only experiments aboard

Jeff Bezos' rocket company has suffered its first launch failure

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“Space is hard”: How tragedy and ambition have shaped NASA’s Artemis I mission

NASA is going back to the Moon, in part, to honor fallen astronauts.

The Hindu

How massive stars steal planets

Our Sun has a rather lonely existence in the Milky Way galaxy. It sits on its own, four light years

The Guardian - UK

Starwatch: it is a great time to search the skies for Capricorn

This week the brightest objects in the constellation are the planet Saturn and the star Deneb Algedi

Orlando Sentinel

SpaceX nails 1 launch this weekend, pushes 2nd to Tuesday

ORLANDO, Fla. — SpaceX doesn’t take the weekend off, at least on the Space Coast with a Starlink launch on Saturday and one pushed from Sunday now to Tuesday.

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United Nations weighs in after another piece of space junk in Snowy Mountains is confirmed to be SpaceX's

Details have emerged about the first three pieces of SpaceX debris found in the Snowy Mountains, as a fourth fragment is confirmed.

The Guardian - AU

Seeing stars: the astronomical rise of Australian dark-sky tourism

Australia has a relative abundance of astro-tourism destinations, and a growing movement to help protect their darkness

Inverse

Astronomers find a shocking culprit that shaped Earth's continents

Sure, asteroids did some of the work. But a few came from the fringes of our Solar System — and were kicked in by other stars.

Dynamite News

Hubble findings may provide insights into formation of Universe

Stars are the machines that sculpt the universe, yet scientists don't fully know how they form. To understand the frenzied 'baby boom' of star birth that occurred early in the universe's history, researchers turned to the Small Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way. Read more on Dynamite…

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Your Horos Are Here: Mercury Retrograde Will Bring Ghosts From Your Past Back To Haunt You, Sag

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Inverse

Look: Mars’ patchy and chaotic aurora may herald extreme space weather events

A recent rare UV aurora on Mars may have resulted from a highly disturbing plasma environment at the time of the events.

Chicago Sun-Times

Horoscope for Sunday, Sept. 11, 2022

There are no restrictions to shopping or important decisions. The moon is in Aries.

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