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The Falcon 9 Rocket sets a new payload weight record during a SpaceX Starlink launch

Falcon 9, loaded with 56 Starlink satellites, ignition moment, Thursday, January 25.screenshot: SpaceX SpaceX’s amazingly reliable Falcon 9 continues to impress. The rocket sent 56 Starlink satellites into Earth orbit this morning, and with a total weight of about 17.4 metric tons, it is now the heaviest payload ever lifted by a Falcon 9 rocket. …

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AstroForge is planning its first private asteroid mining mission

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The OrbAstro ORB-50 satellite platform will host a variety of instruments needed to assess the target asteroid from a distance. Clarification: Intuitive machines AstroForge has announced an ambitious commercial mission to observe a distant asteroid — an important step for a California startup as it strives to become the world’s first deep-space miner. AstroForge seeks …

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The Webb Telescope Spectrograph has a software bug

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NASA says Webb Space Telescope Near infrared imaging and non-slit spectroscopy It is currently unavailable for scientific operations after a software glitch occurred earlier this month. in a statement published Yesterday, the agency reported that the problem began on January 15, when a communications delay within the device caused its flight program to time out. …

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NASA halts attempts to fix Lucy’s troublesome solar array

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Illustration of the Lucy spacecraft with both circular solar arrays fully deployed.Clarification: Southwest Research Institute NASA is taking a break from Efforts to open a A small array of solar energy on the spacecraft Lucy, claiming that the probe is Very cool and those efforts When posting the matrix can be It is most fruitful …

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Terrible spiral over Hawaii likely caused by SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket

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The spiral structure appeared over Maunakea on January 18,screenshot: Gizmodo Telescope / Subaru Last week, astronomers at the Hawaiian Observatory discovered a spiral-like structure above Maunakea. The SpaceX Falcon 9 upper stage is the likely source of the strange atmospheric feature, as this sort of thing has happened before. The helix was seen during the …

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