SpaceX Starship launches banana to space, skips giant rocket catch on 6th test flight (video, photos)

Starship launches banana to space, skips giant rocket catch | Space Quiz! The Milky Way and more than 30 nearby galaxies all belong to what? | UFO chief says 'anomalous objects' need careful study Created for znamenski.spacecom@blogger.com |  Web Version November 20, 2024 CONNECT WITH SPACE.COM       Something amazing every day. SIGN UP ⋅   WEBSITE   The Launchpad Starship launches banana to space, skips giant rocket catch (SpaceX) The biggest and most powerful rocket ever built now has a half-dozen launches under its belt. SpaceX's 400-foot-tall (122 meters) Starship megarocket lifted off for the sixth time ever yesterday (Nov. 19), rising off the orbital launch mount at the company's Starbase site in South Texas at 5:00 p.m. EST (2200 GMT; 4:00 p.m. local Texas time). Unlike its last launch, however, the Super Heavy first stage booster did not make it back to the launchpad for landing. Full Story: Space (11/19)  Space Quiz! The Milky Way and more than 30 nearby galaxies all belong to what? Learn the answer here! Galactic neighborhood Universe zip code Local group Stellar nursery UFO chief says 'anomalous objects' need careful study (AARO/DOD) It's never aliens. At least, it hasn't been yet. The United States Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities heard testimony on Tuesday (Nov. 19) from Jon T. Kosloski, director of the Pentagon's All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO). The U.S. Department of Defense created the office in July 2022 in order to have a single place for military and government personnel to report UFO sightings, or UAP, as they're now known. The new term, short for unidentified anomalous phenomena, encompasses not only unidentified objects or events in the sky, but also those in water, in space or those that appear to travel between these domains. 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They'll share the same right ascension, the celestial equivalent of longitude that, put simply, measures how far east an object is of the point where the sun intersects the celestial equator on the vernal equinox. Full Story: Space (11/20)  Spaceflight Chandrayaan-2 avoids collision with South Korea Danuri sat (ISRO) India's Chandrayaan-2 moon orbiter maneuvered in September to avoid a close approach with South Korea's Danuri spacecraft, according to a recent report from the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). The report said the Chandrayaan-2 orbiter raised its orbit on Sept. 19 to prevent a close approach to Danuri, which was expected to occur two weeks later if Chandrayaan-2's trajectory went unchanged. The report noted that a subsequent maneuver, which took place on Oct. 1, also helped Chandrayaan-2 avoid potential collisions with other orbiters around the moon, including NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO). Full Story: Space (11/19)  Science & Astronomy 5 stunning galaxy images tell a story of cosmic evolution (INAF/VST-SMASH/C. Tortora et al. (2024)) Using the Very Large Telescope (VLT) located in the Atacama desert region of Northern Chile, astronomers have revealed five stunning portraits of galaxies in the local universe. The images of these galaxies show their shapes, structures and distributions of stars in stunning and colorful detail. Some of the galaxies are located at the edge of the so-called "local group," a galactic collection that includes our home, the Milky Way, while others are more distant. Full Story: Space (11/19)  SpaceX 'It's bananas:' Toy fruit becomes Starship zero-g indicator (SpaceX/collectSPACE.com) An artificial banana floated peacefully in the microgravity environment of outer space on Tuesday (Nov. 19). No longer needing its attached tethers, it just hung there, suspended in the bay of its steel spacecraft's otherwise empty cargo hold. The fake-but-full-size fruit made history as the first zero-gravity indicator to fly on a SpaceX Starship. Full Story: Space (11/19)  Entertainment 'Dune: Prophecy' episode 1 - 'The Hidden Hand' (HBO) Let's be clear, Frank Herbert's "Dune"-iverse has never been one of cuddly kittens and bright shiny rainbows, so it's not exactly an eye-opening revelation that "Dune: Prophecy," HBO/Max's expansive new "Dune" spinoff prequel series that takes flight on Sunday, Nov. 17, 2024 is somewhat of a dark and somber affair. Full Story: Space (11/18)  Star Wars SabersPro Luke lightsaber review: A premium duellist saber (Future) If you want a screen-accurate movie replica then this isn't the lightsaber you're looking for and we suggest you move along. However, if you're a keen duellist who demands a more streamlined hilt for swishing and swooshing and Luke's your homestead boy, then this lightsaber might be the perfect solution. 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Pentagon UFO office testifies to US Senate today. Watch it live here (video)

How to watch SpaceX launch Starship megarocket today | Pentagon UFO office testifies to US Senate today. Watch live. | Aurora forecast: Will the northern lights be visible tonight? Created for znamenski.spacecom@blogger.com |  Web Version November 19, 2024 CONNECT WITH SPACE.COM       Something amazing every day. SIGN UP ⋅   WEBSITE ADVERTISEMENT The Launchpad How to watch SpaceX launch Starship megarocket today (Space.com / Josh Dinner) Just before sunset this evening (Nov. 19) on the outskirts of the southernmost town in Texas, SpaceX's Starship rocket is scheduled to launch on its sixth test flight to space, and you can watch it live on Space.com. Today's launch is scheduled to lift off during a 30-minute window that opens at 5:00 p.m. EST (2100 GMT; 4 p.m. local Texas time). The livestream for SpaceX's Starship Flight 6 will begin 30 minutes before the opening of the launch window, around 4:30 p.m. EST (2030 GMT). SpaceX's official stream can be found through the company's X account, which will be simulcast on the Space.com YouTube channel, VideoFromSpace. Live coverage of the launch will also appear at the top of the Space.com homepage. Full Story: Space (11/18)  Pentagon UFO office testifies to US Senate today. Watch live. (AARO/Wikimedia Commons) A U.S. Senate subcommittee will hear from the Pentagon's UFO office tomorrow, and you can watch live. Director Jon T. Kosloski of the All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office, or AARO, will testify before the Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities on Tuesday (Nov. 19) starting at 4:30 p.m. ET (2130 GMT). A closed-door session off-limits to the public will be held prior to the open session, beginning at 3:15 p.m. ET (2015 GMT). You can watch the hearing live at Space.com, courtesy of the Senate Armed Services Committee. 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Full Story: Space (11/18)  Spaceflight Blue Origin targeting Nov. 22 for next space tourism launch (Blue Origin) Blue Origin's ninth crewed spaceflight will lift off this week, if all goes according to plan. Jeff Bezos' aerospace company announced today (Nov. 18) that it's targeting Friday (Nov. 22) for the launch of NS-28, which will send "Space Gal" Emily Calandrelli and five other people to suborbital space. Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket-capsule combo will lift off from the company's West Texas spaceport on Friday during a window that opens at 10:30 a.m. EST (1530 GMT; 9:30 a.m. local Texas time). You can watch the action live here at Space.com courtesy of Blue Origin, or directly via the company; the webcast will begin 30 minutes before liftoff. Full Story: Space (11/17)  Science & Astronomy Hubble witnesses Milky Way strip its galactic neighbor of gas (NASA, ESA, Ralf Crawford (STScI)) A brand new study based on Hubble Space Telescope observations has thrown weight behind our galaxy's reputation as a bully, showing that the size of the LMC's halo is around ten times smaller than halos of other galaxies that have the LMC's mass, which hints at a past incident with the Milky Way in which our galaxy stripped the LMC of some of its material. Researchers used observations of the LMC from Hubble's ultraviolet vision. Full Story: Space (11/17)  SpaceX SpaceX's Starship booster catch looked just like the render (SpaceX) A new video released ahead of SpaceX's next Starship launch shows just how perfectly the rocket booster nailed its first landing. Full Story: Space (11/18)  Technology Rocket startup ABL Space Systems ends orbital launch plans (ABL Space Systems) ABL Space Systems is dropping plans to compete in the launch market and is switching its focus to missile programs for U.S. national defense. ABL, founded in 2017, had attempted to reach orbit with its RS1 rocket, but suffered setbacks when the first attempt saw the rocket fall back to the launch pad and explode on Alaska's Kodiak island in January 2023. The second RS1 was also destroyed during preflight testing in July this year. Now, the company is dropping out of the launch market and turning its attention to missile defense, ABL's co-founder and president Dan Piemont wrote in a social media post on Nov. 14. Full Story: Space (11/18)    Sign Up  |    Update Profile  |    Unsubscribe Privacy Policy  |    Cookies Policy  |    Terms and Conditions CONTACT US: FEEDBACK  |    ADVERTISE Future US LLC © Full 7th Floor, 130 West 42nd Street, New York, NY, 10036