Australia’s first lunar rover will be called “Roo-ver” following a public vote to name the space vehicle. The Australian Space Agency is building a semi-autonomous rover that will launch to the moon as early as 2026 in partnership with NASA and the agency’s Artemis program. Roo-ver will collect lunar soil samples, from which NASA will …
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SpaceX launched yet another batch of its Starlink internet satellites to orbit early Thursday morning (Dec. 7). A Falcon 9 rocket topped with 23 Starlink spacecraft lifted off from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at 12:07 a.m. EST (0507 GMT), on SpaceX’s 90th orbital mission of 2023. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket’s first stage …
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Astronomers have used the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to paint a picture of burger-shaped, planet-forming material around a young star. The tasty investigation conducted by the James Webb Space Telescope‘s Ice Age team has led to the creation of the first detailed 2-dimensional inventory of ice in a so-called protoplanetary disk — the type …
