File photo of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at pad 4E ready to launch a Starlink mission. Image: SpaceX SpaceX is preparing for its next launch of Starlink satellites from Vandenberg Space Force Base Monday evening. The mission, dubbed Starlink 15-4, will send another 26 Starlink V2 Mini Optimized satellites into low Earth orbit. Liftoff …
Photo credit: Muntaka Chasant, reproduced under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license. By Kaja Šeruga Just outside the historic German town of Goslar, a sprawling industrial complex receives an endless stream of discarded electronics. On arrival, this electronic waste is laboriously prepared for recycling. Electrocycling GmbH is one of the largest e-waste recycling facilities in Europe. …
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Booster 1067 rolled past the Vehicle Assembly Building at the Kennedy Space Center on Friday, May 9, 2025, on its way to pad 39A for a recording breaking 28th flight. Image: Spaceflight Now. SpaceX is readying a Falcon 9 booster for a record-breaking 28th flight in the midnight hour tonight on a mission to deliver …
An artist’s rendering of a Rocket Lab Neutron rocket during stage separation. Illustration: Rocket Lab Rocket Lab is looking to demonstrate the reusability of its forthcoming Neutron rocket next year with a so-called ‘return-to-Earth’ mission no earlier than 2026. Ahead of its first quarter 2025 earnings call on Thursday, the company announced a new contract …
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station to begin the Starlink 6-91 mission on Saturday, May 10, 2025. Image: Adam Bernstein/Spaceflight Now Update May 10, 3:04 a.m. EDT: SpaceX landed its first stage booster on its droneship. SpaceX launched its 900th Starlink satellite …
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Some parts of the Moon are more interesting than others, especially when searching for future places for humans to land and work. There are also some parts of the Moon that we know less about than others, such as the Irregular Mare Patches (IMPs) that dot the landscape. We know very little about how they …
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. That truism, now known as the “Sagan standard” after science communication Carl Sagan, has been around in some form since David Hume first published it in the 1740s. But, with modern-day data collection, sometimes even extraordinary evidence isn’t enough – it’s how you interpret it. That’s the argument behind a …
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Most astronomers agree that life is likely common throughout the Universe. While Earth is the only world known to have life, we know that life arose early on our world, and the building blocks of life, including amino acids and sugars, form readily. We also know there are countless worlds in the cosmos that might …
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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Bast to begin the Starlink 15-3 mission on Friday, May 9, 2025. Image: SpaceX via livestream Update May 9, 8:39 p.m. EDT: SpaceX pushed back the T-0 liftoff time. SpaceX launched its first Falcon 9 launch from …
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We tend to think of habitability in terms of individual planets and their potential to host life. But barring outliers like rogue planets with internal heating or icy moons with subsurface oceans created by tidal heating, it’s exoplanet/star relationships that generate habitability, not individual planets. New research emphasizes that fact.This post was originally published on …
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