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Happy Thursday, space fans! The weekend is right around the corner.
Starting things off early this morning, Rocket Lab launched a mission called "The Lightning God Defends," which sent a private Japanese satellite into orbit. The mission, which launched aboard Rocket Lab's Electron rocket, carried a satellite nicknamed SUSANOO-II after a Japanese lightning god. In stranger space news, mysterious activity from Russia has once again sparked interest as still-unknown Russian aerospace activities caused a U.S. Air Force flight bound for Antarctica to turn around. Quite strange. And in some sad news, the attempt to boost and save NASA's Swift Observatory from falling out of the sky and crashing back to Earth has failed. While many had high hopes for this gung-ho, last-ditch hail Mary attempt to save the mission, it ultimately failed.
Check out what's big in space below:
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A mysterious incident over the South Pacific forced a U.S. Air Force aircraft to turn around on Aug. 18, due to a possible space debris hazard.
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Powered by German engineering, the new, super-tiny Horizon IX hearing aids deliver unparalleled speech clarity — even with background noise. See why leading audiologists are calling it "nothing short of a miracle." Try it at no risk for 45 days.
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Rocket Lab launched its ninth mission for the Japanese company iQPS this morning (Aug. 20), sending an Earth-observation satellite into low Earth orbit.
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Follow our live coverage as we count down to the deepest partial lunar eclipse until December 2028, with the latest news, viewing tips and live updates.
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A pen-sized apparatus called a "laundry gun" could sterilize astronauts' clothes in space.
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The JCB Hydromax vehicle averaged more than 400 mph during two runs in Utah last week, becoming the fastest hydrogen-powered car in history.
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A jet erupting from a distant supermassive black hole-powered blazar is being gravitationally lensed by an unseen clump of dark matter, and that could tell us about the source of cosmic "ghost" particles.
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Astronomers have found the fastest known star in the Milky Way, a faint object racing around Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the heart of our galaxy.
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These are the books that inspired our favorite science fiction worlds on the big and small screens, including novels from Andy Weir, Emily St. John Mandel and Mary Shelley.
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That's it for our space update today!
We are sad to see the rescue effort for NASA's Swift Observatory come to a close. With the attempt to save the observatory from falling back to Earth now deemed a failure, it is only a matter of time before Swift begins to fall and burn up in our orbit. This isn't a complete shock, as the SwiftBoost rescue mission was a long shot from the start, but many still had high hopes for it. Sadly, the LINK probe sent to help out Swift started spinning out of control and mission officials have now deemed it a lost cause.
In more exciting news, we are just a little over one week away from the launch of NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, which is set to lift off aboard a SpaceX Falcon heavy rocket on Aug. 30 from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. This flagship mission will send a brand new and incredibly capable space telescope out into the cosmos to help us broaden our understanding. Space.com staff will be reporting live from this launch, and we can't wait to take you along with us. To follow closely along and stay up to date with all things space, 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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