Friday, August 19, 2022

Watch a SpaceX Dragon cargo capsule leave the space station Friday

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Watch a SpaceX Dragon cargo capsule leave the space station Friday
(NASA)
The robotic freighter is scheduled to depart the ISS around 11:05 a.m. ET.
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NASA 'going full force' to gear up for UFO study
(DoD/US Navy)
The main goals will be to identify and characterize the available UFO data, lay out the best ways to collect observations in the future and determine how the agency can use such data to advance our understanding of these puzzling sky sights.
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Did a second killer asteroid finish the dinosaurs off? Crater in West Africa hints yes.
(Data courtesy of the Republic of Guinea, TGS and WesternGeco)
A likely asteroid impact crater from the latter days of the dinosaurs has been discovered off the coast of West Africa, raising questions about whether the asteroid that wiped out the dinos may have had a smaller sibling that struck around the same time.
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Science & Astronomy
James Webb Space Telescope will seek clouds of vaporized gems on exoplanets
(ESO/M. Kornmesser)
Astronomers are looking for clouds made of vaporized gems and metals on faraway exoplanets.
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SpaceX
SpaceX's giant Starship rocket to launch communications satellite in 2024
(SpaceX via Elon Musk/Twitter)
Starship will loft the Superbird-9 spacecraft for Japanese company Sky Perfect JSat.
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Spaceflight
Celebrate 45 years of Voyager with these amazing images of our solar system (gallery)
(NASA/JPL)
Here we celebrate the achievements of both Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 with some incredible images captured by the pair.
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Artemis 1 will carry tiny Japanese lunar lander to the moon
(JAXA)
The smallest lunar lander to date is designed to make a "semi-hard survivable landing" on the moon.
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Star Wars
'Rogue One: A Star Wars Story' scores an IMAX re-release ahead of new Disney Plus 'Andor' series
(Disney/Lucasfilm)
Relive memories of "Rogue One" at a special one-night event to herald "Andor's" September arrival
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