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Happy Wednesday, space fans!
We are halfway through another week, and we hope you're hanging in there. Today, you'll want to make sure you set all of your calendar reminders for tomorrow's SpaceX Starship launch. The company's V3 Starship, the biggest and baddest version yet, will lift off for the second time. But not only will this be a big, powerful launch that will be fun to watch, there's a lot riding on its success. The first launch of the Starship V3 didn't go perfectly, and NASA has tentative plans to work with SpaceX to send its Artemis astronauts to the moon on a Starship. With people inside, it will have to go perfectly. So we will be watching closely and keeping our fingers crossed for tomorrow's uncrewed test launch.
In other SpaceX news, new information has shed light on just how much of an issue SpaceX's massive (and perpetually growing) fleet of Starlink satellites might be in terms of collision risk. Aside from SpaceX, we have the first X-rays captured in space, which could come in handy as astronauts spend more time in space (and possibly on the moon), astronomers have spotted the faintest exoplanet they can see from Earth, and Star Wars: Ahsoka's second season is coming up and it looks pretty interesting.
Check out what's big in space below:
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SpaceX will launch its next Starship, carrying the first V3 Starlink satellites, on the Flight 13 test mission on Thursday, July 16. Here's what time it flies.
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Whether you're in Spain, Iceland, the U.K. or North America, here's exactly what you'll see in the sky on Aug. 12 — and when to look.
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A portable X-ray device has been used successfully in orbit for the first time, promising X-ray diagnosis of everything from broken bones to ripped spacesuits and damaged satellites.
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It has taken over ten years, but astronomers have finally won a prolonged game of cosmic hide-and-seek with a planet hiding around the star Beta Pictoris.
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Glacial ice carves its way downhill.
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SpaceX's Starlink satellites made over 355,000 collision avoidance maneuvers over the past year with each satellite now dodging other objects almost weekly.
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It's happening! After a long wait, Star Wars: Ahsoka season 2 is on the way.
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That's it for our space update today!
The next day will be all things Starship as we count down to tomorrow's Starship V3 launch, the second for this version. We are hoping that SpaceX has figured out what didn't go quite right with the first V3 launch and that this will go off without a hitch, but we will just have to wait and see. We'll be updating you regularly as we lead up to the launch, so stay tuned (especially if there is a delay, though we really hope it launches when we expect this time around). Will you be watching? Let us know! The only thing more fun than watching a rocket launch is a rocket launch watch party, so hopefully we will all be watching together.
Coming up, next Monday we will be marking the 50th anniversary of successful landings on Mars, as 50 years ago on July 20, NASA landed Viking 1 on the Martian surface. And while a successful landing was exciting, Viking 1 did much more than just survive the trip and its success has helped to lead us to where we are today on the Red Planet.
We are also counting down to a total solar eclipse, the Perseids meteor shower, and possibly one of the most anticipated launches of the year this August: NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope! And to stay as in the loop as possible, you can now get Space.com right in the palm of your hand with our new app available now on iOS and Android.
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Chelsea Gohd
Content Manager, Space.com
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