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"After multiple attempts at removal, the team discovered two of the 35 fasteners on the TAGSAM head could not be removed with the current tools approved for use in the OSIRIS-REx glovebox,"
A Long March 2F rocket lifted off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the Gobi Desert today (Oct. 25) at 11:14 p.m. EDT (0314 GMT or 11:14 a.m. Beijing Time on Oct. 26), carrying the Shenzhou 17 spacecraft and its three-person crew into orbit.
The report stated that SpaceX's Starlink satellites will account for 85% of the risk to people on the ground and aviation from reentering space junk by the middle of the next decade.
(Figure by Antiquity/Jesse Casana, David D. Goodman & Carolin Ferwerda. Imagery courtesy U.S. Geological Survey)
Hundreds of Roman Empire forts popped up in old spy satellite imagery depicting regions of Syria, Iraq and nearby "fertile crescent" territories of the eastern Mediterranean.
