SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket suffers anomaly during launch | Space Quiz! What is the name of the point at which the gravitational influence of a black hole becomes so immense that not even light can escape it? | Cygnus spacecraft departs the ISS for a fiery re-entry
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SpaceX's workhorse Falcon 9 rocket suffered a rare anomaly on Thursday night (July 11). The incident occurred during a launch of SpaceX's Starlink internet satellites from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. The Falcon 9 performed well initially; its two stages separated on time, and the first stage came down for a landing on a drone ship about eight minutes after liftoff as planned. But the rocket's upper stage, which was hauling 20 Starlink spacecraft to low Earth orbit, encountered a problem.
A private cargo spacecraft departed the International Space Station (ISS) this morning (July 12). Northrop Grumman's Cygnus vehicle undocked from the ISS today at 7:01 a.m. EDT (1101 GMT), while the ISS was over the South Atlantic, ending a 5.5-month orbital stay.
Anyone gazing at the summer night sky for even a short length of time is likely to spot a few "shooting stars" darting across the sky. The best meteor display of the summer comes during the second week of August during the annual Perseid meteor shower which, at its peak around the nights of Aug. 11 and 12, is capable of producing 50 to 100 fast, bright meteors per hour for a single observer. Many flaring meteors with trains are seen under good skies. 2024 will be a very good year to watch for the Perseids, because bright moonlight will not interfere.
Astroscale Japan has released yet more eye-watering imagery of space debris in Earth orbit. The Active Debris Removal spacecraft (ADRAS-J) is designed to test safe methods of approaching and surveying space debris in orbit through what are known as Rendezvous and Proximity Operations, or RPO. To test the spacecraft's capabilities, Astroscale sent ADRAS-J to photograph the discarded upper stage of a Japanese H-2A rocket that was launched in 2009.
A Quiet Place: Day One continues to terrorize theaters worldwide with strong box office numbers that are placing it even ahead of its two (mainline) predecessors, so we're likely to see more of the ferocious aliens that kill anything that makes a sound. However, there's much we don't know about them yet and that information isn't really explored in the movies. In this article, we aim to answer your most burning questions.
