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Watch India launch Chandrayaan 3 to the moon on July 14!

Watch India launch Chandrayaan 3 to the moon on July 14 | Mars probe sees Earth and moon in surprise photo | This Canon EOS R6 is still $500 off

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July 13, 2023

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Watch India launch Chandrayaan 3 to the moon on July 14

(ISRO)

The robotic Chandrayaan 3 mission, which aims pull off India's first-ever moon landing, is scheduled to launch atop an LVM3 rocket from Satish Dhawan Space Centre on Friday at 5:05 a.m. EDT (0905 GMT, or 2:35 p.m. local time). Here's how to watch it live.

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Mars probe sees Earth and moon in surprise photo

(ESA)

You've never seen Earth and the moon like this before. The Mars Express spacecraft recently celebrated 20 years in space by taking a nostalgic look back at Earth and the moon from the Red Planet. The images captured by the European Space Agency (ESA) craft show our planet and its natural satellite as little more than a large white dot crossed by a smaller white dot.

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Space Deal of the Day

This Canon EOS R6 is still $500 off

(Amazon)

Astrophotographers take note! Prime Day is over, but this anon EOS R6 (body only) is still less than $2000 on Amazon, a $500 saving. And you can save even more with a ring adapter deal.

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Skywatching

Jupiter shines near moon and Seven Sisters July 14

(Starry Night Software)

Skywatchers on Earth won't be the only ones looking over this celestial encounter between the moon and the Pleiades; both Jupiter and the brightest star of Taurus, Aldebaran, will play chaperone and cast their gaze over the proceedings. Here's how to see them!

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Spaceflight

China just launched a methane-fueled rocket into orbit

(Vcg/Getty Images)

A methane-fueled rocket just reached Earth orbit for the first time ever. The Zhuque-2 rocket, developed by Chinese company Landspace, successfully soared to orbit after launching from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the Gobi Desert on Tuesday (July 11) at 9 p.m. EDT (0100 GMT or 9 a.m. local time on July 12).

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Science & Astronomy

NASA shelves Janus asteroid probes, likely forever

(NASA)

The two small Janus spacecraft were originally supposed to launch with the agency's larger Psyche spacecraft atop a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket in August 2022. Their launch delay means they can't reach their asteroid targets.

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SpaceX

Watch a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launch early July 14

(Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)

A Falcon 9 rocket topped with 54 of SpaceX's Starlink internet satellites is scheduled to lift off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on Friday at 12:40 a.m. EDT (0440 GMT). Here's how to watch it.

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Technology

NASA's Artemis astronaut 'astrovans' have landed

(NASA/Isaac Watson)

Canoo Technologies has delivered three specially designed, fully electric crew transportation vehicles to NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The new trio of "astrovans" will enter service as soon as late 2024, when the four astronauts assigned to NASA's Artemis 2 mission launch on the first crewed mission to fly around the moon in more than 50 years.

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Search for Life

Building blocks of Mars life?

(Perseverance)

NASA's Perseverance rover has found a diverse menagerie of organic molecules in a Martian crater, a new study reports.
"They are an exciting clue for astrobiologists, since they are often thought of as building blocks of life," study lead author Sunanda Sharma, a planetary scientist at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, told Space.com.

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