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Meet The NASA Science Flying On SpaceX’s Polaris Dawn Private Astronaut Mission.

Polaris Dawn may be a private mission, but it’s conducting research that will benefit NASA. Polaris Dawn lifted off early Tuesday morning (Sept. 10) atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, sending four people to orbit for a roughly five-day stay aboard the Crew Dragon capsule “Resilience.” The mission aims to make exploration history, conducting the […]

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AMN Announces a 45% Increase in Traffic After Deploying Starlink’s LEO Constellation.

The Africa Mobile Networks Group (AMN) has announced its successful integration of the Starlink satellite network to provide internet connectivity to over 100 of its rural base stations in Nigeria. Furthermore, the satellite backhaul from Starlink LEO satellites has resulted in a 45% increase in traffic across the AMN sites. With this growing trend, AMN

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China Plans To Build Moon Base At The Lunar South Pole By 2035.

China has revealed that its moon-base plans will be rolled out in two distinct phases, eventually creating a series of nodes on the lunar surface and in orbit. The initial roadmap for the International Lunar Research Station (ILRS), jointly led by China and Russia, was unveiled in June 2021. The pair stated plans to build

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Astronauts Would Have Been Fine On Boeing’s Starliner During Landing, NASA Says.

After more than three months in space, Starliner’s 10-day Crew Flight Test (CFT) has finally concluded. The Boeing spacecraft made a successful landing over the weekend, parachuting to a soft touchdown in the dark desert night of White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, at 12:01 a.m. EDT (0401 GMT) Saturday (Sep. 7). The return

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SpaceX’s Polaris Dawn Astronauts Will Make A Daring Trek Into Earth’s Van Allen Radiation Belt.

SpaceX’s private Polaris Dawn mission successfully launched into orbit at 5:23 a.m. EDT (0923 GMT) on a five-day mission to attempt the first-ever commercial spacewalk. SpaceX’s trailblazing Polaris Dawn mission will soon begin its daring trek into Earth orbit — and with it, the plunge through the belt of radiation wrapped around our planet. The

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The Moon Might Still Have Active Volcanoes, China’s Chang’e 5 Sample-Return Probe Reveals.

Volcanoes have erupted on the lunar surface within a geologically recent timespan, and the moon could still be volcanically active today, according to tiny glass beads in lunar dirt brought back to Earth by the Chinese Chang’e 5 sample-return mission in December 2020. The discovery could turn what we thought we knew about the evolution

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Starlink Now Operational in Zimbabwe.

Starlink, SpaceX’s Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite internet service, is now operational in Zimbabwe following the presidential authorisation in May 2024. The Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (POTRAZ) licensed SpaceX’s Starlink GH LTD to provide satellite broadband services, expanding Starlink’s presence in Africa. Rebecca Slick Hunter, Director of Starlink Global Licensing and Market Activation,

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SpaceX Will Start Launching Starships To Mars In 2026, Elon Musk Says.

SpaceX’s Starship megarocket will start flying Mars missions just two years from now, if all goes according to plan. “These will be uncrewed to test the reliability of landing intact on Mars. If those landings go well, then the first crewed flights to Mars will be in 4 years,” SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk

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Boeing’s Starliner Capsule Just Landed With No Crew Aboard.

Boeing’s Starliner capsule just returned to Earth without astronauts, marking the beginning of a new set of investigations by NASA. Starliner left the International Space Station (ISS) on Friday evening (Sept. 6), then aced a landing in New Mexico just after midnight on Saturday (Sept. 7). The touchdown brought an end to Crew Flight Test

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Boeing Starliner Capsule Lands Back On Earth, Without Astronauts, To End Troubled Test Flight.

Starliner’s long space odyssey is over. The Boeing capsule, named Calypso, returned to Earth early this morning (Sept. 7), touching down in the New Mexico desert at 12:01 a.m. EDT (0401 GMT; 11:01 p.m. local time on Sept. 6). “Great landing of Calyspo!” NASA astronaut Suni Williams said on the agency’s webcast. “I don’t think

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