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ABL Space Systems is dropping plans to compete in the launch market and is switching its focus to missile programs for U.S. national defense. ABL, founded in 2017, had attempted to reach orbit with its RS1 rocket, but suffered setbacks when the first attempt saw the rocket fall back to the launch pad and explode […]
Stumped by Space ORCs ORCs are faint extragalactic circles of radio emission that appear to be invisible at other wavelengths. As the number of known ORCs slowly climbs, researchers have begun to test possible formation mechanisms. Among the many possibilities are the jets of active galactic nuclei: luminous galactic centers powered by accreting supermassive black […]
Stumped by Space ORCs ORCs are faint extragalactic circles of radio emission that appear to be invisible at other wavelengths. As the number of known ORCs slowly climbs, researchers have begun to test possible formation mechanisms. Among the many possibilities are the jets of active galactic nuclei: luminous galactic centers powered by accreting supermassive black […]
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SpaceX is set to launch its first-ever mission for the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) today (Nov. 18). A Falcon 9 rocket carrying ISRO’s GSAT-N2 communications satellite is scheduled to lift off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station today during a two-hour window that opens at 1:31 p.m. EST (1831 GMT). If it goes at […]
Mars has continued its eastward progression, crossing from Gemini, the twins, into Cancer, the crab. On the night of 20 November, it will be joined in the night sky by a waxing gibbous moon. The chart shows the view looking east from London at 23.00 GMT. As the night progresses into the early hours of […]
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“To look at the Earth from space is a bit like a child looking into a mirror and realising for the first time that the person in the mirror is herself. What we do to the Earth we do to ourselves,” the novelist and winner of this year’s Booker prize, Samantha Harvey, said in her […]
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