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China’s Landspace gears up for 3rd launch of its methane-powered rocket

Chinese launch startup Landspace is set to launch its methane-powered rocket early next month. This time, the Zhuque 2 (Vermillion Bird 2) rocket will be carrying satellites and aims to demonstrate its operational launch capabilities. The launch comes just under a year after its first Zhuque-2 launch which ended in failure. It bounced back with

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Satellites Watch World’s Largest Iceberg Break Away from Antarctica

The world’s largest iceberg is drifting beyond Antarctic waters and satellites are tracking its movement from space. The iceberg, called A23a, has broken loose and is moving past the northern tip of the Antarctic Peninsula after being grounded for more than three decades. Recent satellite images reveal that the iceberg, weighing nearly a trillion tons,

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Europe’s New Ariane 6 Rocket Fire its Engines in New Timelapse

Ariane 6, the European Space Agency‘s (ESA) next-generation launch vehicle recently passed a major milestone as the rocket moves closer to its debut. A Nov. 23 wet dress rehearsal put the spacecraft and its ground crews to the test, running through a full countdown and rocket fueling, and culminating in a 7-minute firing of the

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ISS Astronauts Watch Russian Cargo Ship Burn up in Earth’s Atmosphere

Astronauts aboard the International Space Station got a front-row seat to some rare atmospheric “fireworks.” On Wednesday (Nov. 29), the Russian Progress MS-23 cargo spacecraft departed from the International Space Station (ISS) with a load of refuse no longer needed on the orbital outpost. Specifically, the spacecraft was carrying “old equipment and household waste, or

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Exoplanet ‘haze’ makes it harder to identify water on alien worlds. Scientists may have a solution

One of the primary tasks of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is to scan the atmospheres of exoplanets for signs of habitability. And, as far as we know, water is necessary for life. So naturally, detecting the presence of water in and around alien worlds is a high priority for planetary scientists. There is,

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James Webb Space Telescope spies a newborn star in its cosmic crib

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have observed the luminous cloud of material that surrounds a newborn star, cocooning it in a crib of gas and dust. These so-called Herbig-Haro objects are created when stellar winds and jets of gas billow from newborn stars, causing shockwaves that slam into the gas and dust

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Dark matter may be hiding in the Large Hadron Collider’s particle jets

A new search for dark matter has turned up empty handed — but, in a silver lining, the effort provided important limits that will help future experiments narrow down the hunt for this elusive substance. Most astronomers believe that dark matter accounts for 85 percent of all mass in the universe, and that its existence

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SkyFi is Expanding Horizons with Aerial, SAR + Global Satellite Imagery

SkyFi continues to evolve and expand their EO capabilities — the company is introducing Urban Sky’s stratospheric balloon imagery and that represents a significant enhancement to SkyFI’s data offerings and also has the distinction of being the firm’s first, integrated, aerial imaging provider. This new technology offers an impressive 10 cm resolution, offering finer details

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