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SpaceX launching 30 satellites on Bandwagon-2 rideshare mission early Dec. 21

Fri, 12/20/2024 - 5:00pm
SpaceX plans to launch 30 satellites on a rideshare mission called Bandwagon-2 early Saturday morning (Dec. 21).
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Space2Sea Antarctica: A student journalist's expedition to bottom of the world begins

Fri, 12/20/2024 - 4:44pm
Space2Sea Antarctica: A student journalist's expedition to bottom of the world begins
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Dreaming of a white Christmas? Snow is likely in these US states according to NOAA climate data

Fri, 12/20/2024 - 4:00pm
According to climate data from NOAA, you might not have to only dream about having a white Christmas this year in some parts of the United States.
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Abort! SpaceX calls off launch of 'MicroGEO' satellites at last second

Fri, 12/20/2024 - 2:27pm
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket ignites each its engines just as an abort is called at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on Saturday, Dec. 20, 2024.
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Axiom's private space station is coming sooner than we thought

Fri, 12/20/2024 - 2:00pm
Axiom Space has decided to change up the method for assembling its commercial space station, meaning the outpost could be free-flying as soon as 2028.
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Watch NASA's Artemis Orion moon spacecraft blow its top during testing (video)

Fri, 12/20/2024 - 1:00pm
NASA's Orion spacecraft recently completed an 11-month test campaign, during which it was subjected to extreme conditions of a launch abort scenario and electromagnetic effects of lightning strikes.
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NASA Mars probe spies dusty, retired Insight lander from orbit (photo)

Fri, 12/20/2024 - 11:00am
Photos of the dormant InSight lander captured from Mars orbit are providing researchers new data on how dust accumulates and evolves over time on the Red Planet.
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Rocket Lab scrubs Strix radar satellite launch for Synspective over 'sensor data'

Fri, 12/20/2024 - 10:29am
A new exact launch date for the Strix satellite launch by Rocket Lab has yet to be announced.
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Hubble's 'impossible' planet explained? Gas giants may have formed fast in early universe

Fri, 12/20/2024 - 10:00am
An ancient exoplanet dated at 12.7 billion years old could have formed over a long period in a giant disk of gas, according to new JWST observations.
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NASA's Hubble and Chandra telescopes discover a strange 'sideways' black hole in a cosmic crime scene (image)

Fri, 12/20/2024 - 8:00am
Using the NASA space telescopes Hubble and Chandra astronomers have discovered a strange black hole that has been knocked on its side in a cosmic crime scene.
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The Ursid meteor shower peaks this weekend. Here's what to expect from the final 'shooting stars' of 2024

Fri, 12/20/2024 - 7:33am
The last meteor shower of the year peaks in the early morning hours of Dec. 22.
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US Space Force 5 years later: What has it accomplished so far, and where does it go from here?

Fri, 12/20/2024 - 6:00am
As the U.S. Space Force celebrates its fifth anniversary, the service's leadership looked back on its accomplishments so far while looking ahead to the future.
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Watch Rocket Lab launch a private Earth-imaging satellite

Fri, 12/20/2024 - 12:01am
Rocket Lab plans to launch a radar satellite for the Earth-observation company Synspective, and you can watch it live when the time comes.
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Russian cosmonauts install X-ray detector, jettison trash on spacewalk outside ISS

Thu, 12/19/2024 - 6:37pm
Russian cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner installed an X-ray detector and jettisoned trash during a spacewalk outside the International Space Station on Thursday, Dec. 19, 2024.
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SpaceX inks deal with Vast to launch 2 astronaut missions to the ISS

Thu, 12/19/2024 - 5:00pm
California-based company Vast Space has booked two crewed flights to the ISS with SpaceX, though the missions still must be approved by NASA.
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NASA space telescopes give Christmas Tree Cluster a festive makeover (photos)

Thu, 12/19/2024 - 3:00pm
The James Webb Space Telescope used a galaxy as a cosmic magnifying glass to find transient objects in the "Christmas Tree" cluster, a Winter Wonderland of even more galaxies.
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Looking back at '2010', the criminally-underrated sequel to '2001: A Space Odyssey'

Thu, 12/19/2024 - 2:00pm
Forty years ago, this lesser-known sequel attempted to explain the mysteries of one of sci-fi's greatest movies.
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It's a bird! It's a plane! It's the 1st fantastic trailer for James Gunn's 'Superman!'

Thu, 12/19/2024 - 12:37pm
Krypto saves the day in this heroic look at the Man of Steel's new reboot from the 'Guardians of the Galaxy' Trilogy director
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BepiColombo spacecraft flies by Mercury, sees volcanic plain and impact craters

Thu, 12/19/2024 - 12:00pm
The BepiColombo spacecraft has captured the 1st mid-infrared portrait of Mercury.
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SpaceX will launch Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lander to the moon in mid-January with these 10 NASA payloads

Thu, 12/19/2024 - 11:00am
NASA and SpaceX are targeting mid-January for the launch of Firefly Aerospace's Ghost Riders in the Sky mission to the lunar surface.
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