Monday, April 4, 2022

Lightning strikes NASA's Artemis 1 moon megarocket launch pad

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April 4, 2022
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The Launchpad
Lightning strikes NASA's Artemis 1 moon megarocket launch pad
(NASA TV)
Lightning struck the launch pad home of NASA's giant Artemis 1 moon rocket four times on Saturday and it looked amazing on video. The rocket was fine, NASA says.
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Mars craters show layers of ice in stunning photos
(ESA/DLR/FU Berlin, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO)
The European Space Agency (ESA) mission shows so-called "mantle deposits" of ice and dust at in Utopia Planitia, a region that is roughly twice the size of Earth's Sahara Desert.
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April's sky brings dance of 4 morning planets to see at dawn
(Stellarium)
Don't miss your change to see Jupiter, Venus, Mars and Saturn dance across the predawn sky this month. Here's when and where to look.
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Spaceflight
Russia threatens to leave International Space Station (again)
(Kirill Kudryavtsev/Getty Images)
Dmitry Rogozin, the head of Russia's federal space agency Roscosmos, decried the sanctions imposed by the United States, Japan, Canada and the European Union - the other ISS partners - on his nation because of its invasion of Ukraine.
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Astronaut's moon rock moved from Disney's Epcot to museum
(The Space Museum)
Fifty years after it was brought back from the moon, a small lunar rock has moved from the "Most Magical Place on Earth" to the "Show Me State."
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NASA calls off critical Artemis 1 moon rocket test over safety concerns
(NASA/Joel Kowsky)
A problem on the Artemis 1 rocket's mobile launcher, a platform that includes its gantry tower and other vital equipment, foiled the test, NASA officials said.
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Science & Astronomy
Sudden collapse of Antarctic ice shelf could be sign of things to come
(USNIC)
A massive Antarctic ice shelf that covered an area about the size of New York City or Rome just collapsed into the ocean.
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Asteroid Ryugu may be a remnant of an extinct comet
(JAXA)
Remote observations by Hayabusa2 suggest that rather than a single, monolithic boulder, Ryugu is a rubble-pile asteroid composed of small pieces of rock and solid material clumped together by gravity, researchers reported in a recent study.
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NASA downgrades a large asteroid's risk of impact in 2880
(NASA/JPL)
The chances of an asteroid dubbed 1950 DA crashing into Earth were always tiny and long in the future: As of 2015, scientists had calculated that the object had a 1 in 8,000 chance of impacting Earth in the year 2880. But a new analysis released on Tuesday (March 29) knocks the asteroid out of the top spot of NASA's list of known asteroids that are most potentially hazardous to Earth.
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SpaceX
SpaceX, NASA delay Ax-1 private astronaut launch to April 8
(SpaceX)
The Ax-1 mission's liftoff is now scheduled for Friday at 11:17 a.m. EDT (1517 GMT). If all goes to plan, SpaceX's Crew Dragon capsule with the crew will reach the space station on Saturday (April 9) at 7:30 a.m EDT (1130 GMT), Axiom Space said in a statement.
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SpaceX's private Ax-1 mission includes self-assembling robots and more
(MIT Space Exploration Initiative / TU Dortmund Fraunhofer Institute)
The Houston company Axiom Space has a huge science haul planned for its debut mission, including robots and filters that could assist with future space exploration at the moon or Mars.
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Meet the 4 private astronauts on Axiom Space's Ax-1 mission
(Axiom Space)
The mission's participants, aside from Ax-1 commander, retired NASA astronaut and current Axiom vice president of business development Michael López-Alegría, paid for their seats.
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Star Trek
'Star Trek: Picard' season 2 episode 5 teases potentially magnificent match-up
(Paramount Plus)
This remains a quality episode, promising an enticing confrontation, but concurrently threatening an overdose of cameos.
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Star Trek Online teams with IDW for Mirror Universe adventures (exclusive)
(Star Trek Online)
Hoping to provide a cohesive template for further ventures into the reflective realm of "Star Trek's" Mirror Universe, a new partnership between Star Trek Online and IDW Publishing was recently announced to allow for synergy and narrative material in the future.
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