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SpaceX Launches 20 Starlink Satellites From California.

SpaceX launched 20 Starlink internet satellites from California early Saturday morning (Nov. 9). A Falcon 9 rocket carrying the Starlink spacecraft — 13 of which had direct-to-cell capability — lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base at 1:14 a.m. EST (0514 GMT; 10:14 p.m. Nov. 8 local time). According to plan, the Falcon 9’s first stage […]

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Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 Jet Sets New Speed Record During 7th Test Flight.

Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 aircraft set a new speed record during its latest test flight. The Colorado company is working through a flight test program of the XB-1 supersonic demonstrator aircraft, which completed its most recent test flight on Nov. 5. This was the seventh out of 10 planned subsonic test flights to confirm XB-1’s performance

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SpaceX Dragon Fires Thrusters To Boost ISS Orbit For The 1st Time.

The International Space Station is going a just tiny bit faster today, after receiving an orbital boost from SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft. SpaceX’s 31st commercial resupply mission lifted off Nov. 4, launching a Dragon cargo vehicle to rendezvous with the International Space Station (ISS), docking to the station’s forward-facing port the next day. For the first

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China’s Space Station Experiments Are Back On Earth.

Space specialists in China have begun to assess experiment samples brought back by the Shenzhou-18 crew that touched down Nov. 4 in north China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. Ye Guangfu, Li Cong and Li Guangsu parachuted back to Earth after their six-month stay in the country’s Tiangong space station. The Shenzhou-18 crew conducted some 90

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NASA’s X-59 ‘Quiet’ Supersonic Jet Test Fires Engine For 1st Time.

NASA’s revolutionary X-59 jet is steadily progressing towards its first flight test. Starting on Oct. 30, engineers with NASA’s X-59 Quesst program (Quiet SuperSonic Technology) have been conducting test runs of the jet’s engines at the storied Lockheed Martin Skunk Works facility in Palmdale, California. The tests are going in phases. During the preliminary tests,

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SpaceX’s Dragon Is About To Do Something To The ISS It’s Never Done Before.

SpaceX will boost the space station for the first time Friday (Nov. 8), as the company prepares to eventually kill the orbiting complex. A Dragon cargo spacecraft docked to the International Space Station (ISS) will fire its engines for 12.5 minutes on Friday (Nov. 8), NASA officials said at a press conference Monday (Nov. 4).

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Ghana Launches National Space Policy.

On November 5, 2024, Ghana officially launched its National Space Policy, memorialising a significant milestone in its growing space sector. The policy aims to harness the power of space technology and leverage it to propel economic growth, enhance national security, and ensure sustainable development. With space technology already being used across various sectors such as

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SpaceX Launching 23 More Starlink Satellites From Florida On Nov. 7.

SpaceX plans to launch another batch of its Starlink internet satellites on Thursday afternoon (Nov. 7) from Florida’s Space Coast. A Falcon 9 rocket carrying 23 Starlink spacecraft is scheduled to lift off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station Thursday during a four-hour window that opens at 3:13 p.m. EST (1813 GMT). SpaceX will webcast

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NASA’s Parker Solar Probe To Fly By Venus Before Historic Sun Encounter.

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe will complete its seventh swing past Venus — the spacecraft’s final maneuver around the amber planet — in a flyby that will nudge the probe on a trajectory that will take it within 3.8 million miles of the sun’s surface. That will be the closest that any human-built object has come

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