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Tuesday, May 14, 2024

SpaceX Starship's next launch 'probably 3 to 5 weeks' away, Elon Musk says

Polaris Dawn targets early summer for 1st all-civilian EVA | Space Quiz! What interacts with Earth's magnetic field to create aurora in the night sky? | Starship launch 'probably 3 to 5 weeks' away, Musk says

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Polaris Dawn targets early summer for 1st all-civilian EVA

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SpaceX's most ambitious crewed mission to date is gearing up to launch this summer - it will include the company's first spacewalk-capable spacesuits and a Crew Dragon capsule with an interior modified for vacuum exposure.

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Space Quiz! What interacts with Earth's magnetic field to create aurora in the night sky?

Learn the answer in one of the stories below!

Meteor showers

Orbital debris

Coronal mass ejections

Matter expelled from black holes

Starship launch 'probably 3 to 5 weeks' away, Musk says

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We're likely still a month or so away from the next launch of SpaceX's Starship megarocket. That was the timeline Elon Musk offered in a post on X over the weekend, saying Starship's next test flight is "probably 3 to 5 weeks" away. "Objective is for the ship to get past max heating, or at least further than last time," the billionaire entrepreneur added.

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Skywatching

How a giant sunspot created aurora mayhem this weekend

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Intense solar activity generated the most extreme geomagnetic storm since 2003 on Friday (May 10), and the action could continue into this week. Here's how it happened.

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SpaceX

Starlink satellites doing just fine after solar storms

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Starlink broadband satellites, which number nearly 6,000 in orbit, all came through after intense solar activity sparked auroras and other signs of space weather across the world, including unusually far into the southern United States.

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Technology

NASA appoints 1st AI chief to stay on 'the cutting edge'

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NASA has appointed its first-ever chief artificial intelligence (AI) officer, a move designed to ensure that the agency keeps up with a vital and rapidly evolving field. That person is David Salvagnini, who was serving as NASA's chief data officer.

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Search for Life

AI may be to blame for our lack of contact with aliens

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The great filter hypothesis is ultimately a proposed solution to the Fermi Paradox. This questions why, in a universe vast and ancient enough to host billions of potentially habitable planets, we have not detected any signs of alien civilizations. The hypothesis suggests there are insurmountable hurdles in the evolutionary timeline of civilizations that prevent them from developing into space-faring entities.

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Telescopes & Binoculars

Celestron telescope & binocular deals 2024

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Celestron is one of the top names in the skywatching industry, known for the quality and reliability of its optics. With that in mind, it's no surprise that they make some of the best telescopes and best binoculars around and you can get several of the best telescope deals and binoculars deals on their products too.

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Entertainment

Lego rolls out details about Apollo lunar rover model

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Lego is gearing up to deliver a detailed model of the original "rock and rolling ride," the electric buggy driven by NASA's last three Apollo crews to explore the moon. The new Lego Technic "NASA Apollo Lunar Roving Vehicle - LRV" set will roll into Lego stores on Aug. 1.

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