SpaceX launched 24 new Starlink internet satellites into orbit from Florida’s Space Coast and landed a rocket at sea in the second of back-to-back launches today (Nov. 11). A Falcon 9 rocket carrying the Starlink spacecraft streaked into the afternoon sky over Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Monday at 4:28 p.m. EST (2128 GMT). The …
SpaceX tied its rocket-reuse record (Nov. 11). A Falcon 9 rocket launched the KoreaSat-6A telecom satellite from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida at 12:25 p.m. EST (1625 GMT). It was the 23rd mission for this rocket’s first stage, according to SpaceX, equaling a mark set by two other Falcon 9 boosters. Some eight …
Black holes exert a tremendous influence on their surroundings, meaning that when they spin, they literally drag the very fabric of space and time around with them. That means nothing can sit still around a rotating black hole, including the “plates” that these cosmic titans feed from. Those flattened clouds of gas and dust surrounding …
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