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Europe's new heavy-lift Ariane 6 rocket is set to make its long-delayed debut on Tuesday (July 9). If all goes according to plan, the Ariane 6 will launch from Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, on Tuesday during a four-hour window that opens at 2 p.m. EDT (1800 GMT).
On Episode 118 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and guest co-host Isaac Arthur talk with Alina Kiessling and Jason Rhodes, both research scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, about the concepts of dark matter and dark energy and their broader implications for cosmology, exoplanet research, and more.
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With no fireworks allowed on the space station, NASA astronauts improvised with camera flashes to celebrate Independence Day. International Space Station (ISS) astronaut Matthew Dominick played around with "light painting" -- a long exposure in a dark room that illuminates a subject with a light source -- during Expedition 71's time off to celebrate the Fourth of July.
NASA's Goldstone planetary radar system recently recorded two near-Earth asteroids, 2024 MK and 2011 UL21, flying by our planet. Perhaps a tad alarming, one was only detected 13 days before it safely bypassed Earth, but scientists at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Southern California assure it never posed a threat. Still, the imagery they were able to collect has been extremely informative.
The next flight test of SpaceX's Starship could include a new milestone, according to a teaser included on a video of highlights from the rocket's fourth flight test.
"I'm standing so close to JAXA's Hayabusa2 asteroid lander that I could reach out and touch it. Instead, I jump on top of it. Then I strike a pose. When I leap off, I float for a moment in the low gravity before touching down gently on the surface of Ryugu, a craggy, gray world devoid of life and color."
