SpaceX test-fired the upper stage of its seventh Starship megarocket again recently, practicing an in-space engine burn. Source...
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SpaceX submitted a petition to local authorities on Dec. 12, requesting an election on incorporating the Starbase launch site as its own city. Source...
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The FAA issued a launch license for SpaceX's upcoming Starship Flight 7, clearing the way for the company's next launch of the world's largest rocket from South Texas. Source...
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NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams will stay in space an extra month, until March 2025, giving SpaceX more time to complete a new Crew Dragon capsule. Source...
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Just as Homo sapiens once exploded out of Africa to colonize the Earth our influence is spreading in the solar system. New research says we must track the cosmic migration to Mars. Source...
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Chinese astronauts perform record-breaking 9-hour spacewalk outside Tiangong space station (video)
Two Chinese astronauts spent more than nine hours outside the nation's Tiangong space station on Dec. 16 and Dec. 17, beating the old EVA duration record by 10 minutes. Source...
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China launches 1st set of spacecraft for planned 13,000-satellite broadband constellation (photo)
A Long March 5B rocket launched 10 big broadband satellites to orbit on Dec. 16, beginning the assembly of China's Guowang ("national network") megaconstellation. Source...
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Star Wars: Skeleton Crew takes some adventuring downtime in episode 4 in exchange for more heartfelt moments and character development. Source...
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Sun erupts with extremely speedy coronal mass ejection and two spectacular fiery filaments, watch the action unfold. Source...
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Hubble trouble or Superbubble? Astronomers need to escape the ‘supervoid’ to solve cosmology crisis
The disagreement in the rate of expansion of the universe, the Hubble tension, could arise from the fact Earth sits in an under-dense supervoid region of space. Source...
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