When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. An illustration of an asteroid orbiting the sun alongside Earth, much like the potential new quasi-moon. | Credit: Zoonar GmbH / Alamy Stock Photo A new paper describes another possible “quasi-moon” of Earth, and the interloping asteroid may have been following our planet …
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SpaceX continued its busy 2025 tonight (Sept. 11), sending a satellite high above Earth for an Indonesian telecom company. A Falcon 9 rocket carrying the Nusantara Lima satellite lifted off from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station today at 9:56 p.m. EDT (0156 GMT on Sept. 12), after being grounded for three days by bad weather. The rocket’s first stage …
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A new paper describes another possible “quasi-moon” of Earth, and the interloping asteroid may have been following our planet around for decades, undetected. Quasi-moons, the Planetary Society states, are “like a gravitational sleight of hand.” They are asteroids, which — from our point of view on Earth — appear to be orbiting our planet like our permanent moon does. However, …
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IN A NUTSHELL 🚀 The U.S. Space Force and Gravitics are developing an orbital aircraft carrier to transform satellite deployment. 🔒 The carrier offers an unpressurized environment to protect sensitive electronics from harsh space conditions. 🤝 Public-private partnerships are crucial for advancing U.S. space superiority and integrating new technologies. 🌌 This initiative marks a new era in space exploration, impacting …
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When the potentially hazardous asteroid 99942 Apophis makes its breathtakingly close flyby of Earth on April 13, 2029, more than 2 billion people across Africa and Western Europe will be able to watch it drift across the night sky. Under clear skies, the space rock will appear as a faint star — about as bright as the stars in the …
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SpaceX launched a fresh batch of Starlink spacecraft into orbit this morning (Sep. 3), lofting 28 more satellites into the company’s megaconstellation of over 8,000. A Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Space Launch Complex-40, at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida at 7:56 a.m. EDT (1156 GMT). It came just over 8 hours after a different Falcon 9 …
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Another SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket just earned its wings. A Falcon 9 with a brand-new first stage lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California today (Sept. 2) at 11:51 p.m. EDT (8:51 p.m. local time; 0351 GMT on Sept. 3), carrying 24 of the company’s Starlink internet satellites toward low Earth orbit (LEO). Such debuts are rare for …
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“Deployment of 28 Starlink satellites confirmed.” With that statement, posted to social media, SpaceX wrapped another launch in support of its broadband internet satellite megaconstellation on Sunday (Aug. 31). The 28 Starlink satellites (Group 10-14) lifted off atop a Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. The one-hour and five-minute mission …
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Launched in 2004, the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory – formerly the Swift Gamma-Ray Burst Explorer – has been dutifully studying gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) during its two-year mission, before moving on to a more general space observation role during its ongoing mission. Unfortunately, the observatory is in LEO, at an altitude of around 370 km. The natural orbital decay combined with …
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