Tuesday, August 1, 2023

Queen's Brian May helped NASA asteroid sampling mission

Watch a cargo launch to the space station tonight | Queen's Brian May helped NASA asteroid sampling mission | Space quiz! What is the name of NASA's asteroid-sampling mission set to return samples to Earth in September?
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The Launchpad
Watch a cargo launch to the space station tonight
(Space.com/ Josh Dinner)
The Northrop Grumman Antares rocket launching the cargo ferry is scheduled to liftoff at 8:31 p.m ET (0031 GMT on Aug. 2).
Full Story: Space (8/1) 
Queen's Brian May helped NASA asteroid sampling mission
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Asteroid Bennu proved a trickster for NASA's OSIRIS-REx asteroid explorer, rewriting everything scientists had thought about space rocks.
Full Story: Space (7/31) 
Space quiz! What is the name of NASA's asteroid-sampling mission set to return samples to Earth in September?
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Space Deal of the Day
Telescopes on Amazon: The best deals and discounts
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All the best deals for telescopes on Amazon including savings on names like Celestron and Orion.
Full Story: Space (11/17) 
Skywatching
Watch supermoon rise today with free telescope livestream
(Getty Images)
The Full Sturgeon Moon is the first of two supermoons this month.
Full Story: Space (8/1) 
Spaceflight
NASA's Voyager 2 probe suffers communication breakdown
(NASA/JPL-Caltech)
The probe, which launched in 1977, left the solar system in 2018.
Full Story: Space (8/1) 
Europe's wind satellite comes to a fiery end above Earth
(ESA/ATG medialab/Robert Lea)
The European Space Agency spacecraft entered the atmosphere and burned up on Friday (July 28).
Full Story: Space (7/31) 
Science & Astronomy
Euclid 'dark universe' telescope reveals 1st images
(ESA/Euclid/Euclid Consortium/NASA)
The European Space Agency's ambitious Euclid space telescope is on its way to decoding the secrets of dark matter and dark energy.
Full Story: Space (7/31) 
Greenland ice weaker to climate change than thought
(Paul Souders/Getty Images)
'It's really the first bulletproof evidence that much of the Greenland ice sheet vanished when it got warm.'
Full Story: Space (7/31) 
Entertainment
'The Expanse' still a hit with astronauts and scientists
(Deck Nine)
"The Expanse" space TV series may be over, but it still lives on as a fandom among astronauts as a video game prequel released on Thursday (July 27).
Full Story: Space (8/1) 
Star Wars
'Star Wars' favorite Lando Calrissian gets his own series
(Disney)
Donald Glover and Stephen Glover take over from former 'Lando' screenwriter Justin Simien.
Full Story: Space (8/1) 
 
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Monday, July 31, 2023

Watch SpaceX test new Starship water-deluge system (video)

Moon mining gains momentum as companies plan ahead | Watch SpaceX test new Starship water-deluge system | Space quiz! SpaceX recently tested a new water-deluge system to protect the Starship orbital launch mount at its Starbase launch facility in which U.S. state?
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Moon mining gains momentum as companies plan ahead
(ICON/BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group)
The pace is quickening for using Earth's moon as a near-term, go-to location to land on, live and explore.
Full Story: Space (7/30) 
Watch SpaceX test new Starship water-deluge system
(SpaceX)
The powerful spray will 'protect against the immense heat & force of Starship launch,' Elon Musk said.
Full Story: Space (7/28) 
Space quiz! SpaceX recently tested a new water-deluge system to protect the Starship orbital launch mount at its Starbase launch facility in which U.S. state?
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Space Deal of the Day
Best DSLR cameras in 2023
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Here's our round-up of the best DSLR cameras in 2023 that can still compete with mirrorless models.
Full Story: Space (1/27) 
Skywatching
August's Full Sturgeon Moon rises tomorrow
(Roman Overko via Getty Images)
The full moon on Aug. 1 is the second of four supermoons in the summer of 2023, with the next, the Full Blue Moon, falling on Aug. 30.
Full Story: Space (7/31) 
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Spaceflight
UK spaceport unearths a surprise ahead of 1st launches
(AOC Archaeology)
'It's definitely very exciting.'
Full Story: Space (7/30) 
China sent over 100 types of seeds to its space station
(CCTV)
The research involves exposing seeds to cosmic radiation.
Full Story: Space (7/31) 
Science & Astronomy
JWST spies giant cosmic question mark in deep space
(NASA, ESA, CSA. Image Processing: Joseph DePasquale (STScI)/post-processing inset image Daisy Dobrijevic)
When looking for answers in the cosmos, sometimes more questions appear.
Full Story: Space (7/28) 
Removing atmospheric carbon may not 'fix' climate change
(ANDER GILLENEA/AFP via Getty Images)
Changes to atmospheric circulation caused by global warming may persist for centuries after carbon dioxide concentrations decrease.
Full Story: Space (7/28) 
SpaceX
Falcon 9 soars over Falcon Heavy in launch photo
(SpaceX/Ben Cooper)
The two rockets were supposed to fly just 44 minutes apart on Thursday (July 28), but the Heavy ended up staying on the ground
Full Story: Space (7/28) 
Technology
New satellite will able to see 'X-ray rainbow'
(NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab)
The satellite from JAXA and NASA will get a front-row seat to high-energy events in the distant universe.
Full Story: Space (7/30) 
 
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