Tuesday, October 4, 2022

SpaceX rolls rocket to pad ahead of Crew-5 astronaut launch (photos)

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SpaceX rolls rocket to pad ahead of Crew-5 astronaut launch (photos)
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The Crew-5 mission is scheduled to launch on Wednesday (Oct. 5) from Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida, and team members have been checking off boxes in the leadup.

Case in point: These amazing photos from the mission's Falcon 9 rocket at the launch pad.
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SpaceX could launch 52 more Starlink satellites tonight. Here's how to watch.
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SpaceX will launch 52 more Starlink internet satellites to orbit tonight, and you can watch the liftoff live.

Liftoff was scheduled for 7:48 p.m. ET tonight (Oct. 4), but only if SpaceX plans to delay its Crew-5 astronaut flight for NASA.
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DART impact gave asteroid Dimorphos a debris tail thousands of miles long
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A new stunning image shows that two days after NASA's DART spacecraft slammed into the asteroid Dimorphos, the space rock had grown a tail of glowing debris extending thousands of miles.

The comet-like tail is made of dust and debris was blasted from the surface of Dimorphos, part of a double asteroid system, by the intentional impact of DART, the first mission designed to test whether such a collision could divert a hypothetical asteroid threatening to hit Earth.
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Hurricane Ian's Florida destruction seen from space
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Satellites have revealed the scale of destruction wreaked by Hurricane Ian over Florida last week, but their images also show glimpses of recovery as lights can be seen coming back on where power has already been restored after widespread outages.
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'Pale blue dot' planets like Earth may make up only 1% of potentially habitable worlds
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    SpaceX
    SpaceX still on track to launch Crew-5 astronaut mission for NASA on Oct. 5
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    SpaceX's Crew-5 astronaut mission is still on target to launch Wednesday (Oct. 5), though there are a few caveats.

    SpaceX is trying to work through three different issues to get the launch on track, though there's a 90% chance of good weather.
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    Spaceflight
    Northrop Grumman names 'SS Sally Ride' cargo ship for 1st US woman in space
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    She set sail as a U.S. Navy research vessel, shipped out as postage stamp, entered circulation on the reverse of a coin and stood tall as a monument. Now, America's first woman in space is set to return to Earth orbit as the namesake of a space station-bound cargo capsule.

    Northrop Grumman has christened its NG-18 Cygnus resupply spacecraft the "S.S. Sally Ride."
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    Blue Origin to launch husband and wife to suborbital space again
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    The first husband-wife team to fly on Blue Origin will make a return to space.

    Sharon Hagle, founder of the non-profit SpaceKids Global, will fly to suborbital space alongside husband Marc during a future Blue Origin flight. (The timing for the flight has not been disclosed after an anomaly during an uncrewed flight last month.)
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    Technology
    North Korea launches nuclear-capable missile over Japan
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    North Korea just conducted one of its most provocative missile tests yet, according to media reports.

    The country sent a missile into space that flew over Japan Tuesday, prompting South Korea and the United States to send fighter jets aloft in an exercise off the Korean coast.
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