Poor weather in the booster recovery zone caused a scrub of the KF-02 mission, preventing the launch of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket for a fourth time in as many days. Image: SpaceX via livestream Update Aug. 10, 9:30 a.m. EDT: Poor weather in the booster recovery zone scrubs KF-02 launch; now targeting Monday, Aug. 11. For a fourth time …
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For over two decades, scientists have puzzled over bright, glowing patches of water in the Southern Ocean visible in satellite imagery. These unusual light reflections, concentrated in remote and icy waters near Antarctica, defied explanation — until now. According to research published in Global Biogeochemical Cycles, a combination of silica-rich diatoms and calcium carbonate–bearing coccolithophores are responsible for the dazzling …
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File: A Falcon 9 rocket stands ready to launch a Starlink mission. Image: SpaceX Update 10:15 a.m. EDT: SpaceX put this launch on hold for now. This story will be updated once the launch has been rescheduled. SpaceX is gearing up for its first Falcon 9 rocket launch from the West Coast in nine days with a mission to deliver …
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SpaceX will launch its 100th mission of the year today (Aug. 7), and you can watch the action live. A Falcon 9 rocket carrying 24 of Amazon’s Project Kuiper internet satellites is scheduled to lift off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida today, during a 27-minute window that opens at 10:01 a.m. EDT (1401 GMT). SpaceX will stream …
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SpaceX Falcon 9 payload fairings, containing 24 of Amazon’s Project Kuiper satellites, rolls out of Amazon’s payload processing facility at Space Florida’s Launch and Landing Facility on Monday, Aug. 5, 2025. The satellites will launch on the KF-02 mission, the second Falcon 9 flight carrying these broadband satellites into low Earth orbit. Image: Amazon Amazon is back at the launch …
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SpaceX launched another batch of its Starlink internet satellites to orbit from Florida early this morning (Aug. 4). A Falcon 9 rocket carrying 28 Starlink spacecraft lifted off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station today at 3:57 a.m. EDT (0757 GMT). It was SpaceX’s 96th Falcon 9 launch of the year already. The rocket’s first stage came back to Earth …
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Drought is forcing Namibian desert elephants to seek water near human settlements. But human encounters with the giant mammals frequently end in tragedies. Elephants are being shot, and their population is shrinking. A conservation project using a combination of GPS data and high-resolution satellite images is trying to help the two species coexist in peace. Without it, the rare desert …
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A hidden lake beneath the Greenland Ice Sheet unexpectedly drained more than a decade ago, fracturing the ice surface and forming a large crater — an event only recently uncovered by Earth-observing satellites. The massive ice sheet, located in a remote region of northern Greenland, harbors a subglacial lake that appears to have flooded in 2014, releasing 23.8 billion gallons …
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SpaceX just sent another batch of its Starlink broadband satellites into the final frontier. A Falcon 9 rocket carrying 19 Starlink craft lifted off from California’s foggy Vandenberg Space Force Base today (July 31) at 2:35 p.m. EDT (1835 GMT; 11:35 a.m. local California time). The rocket’s first stage came back to Earth as planned about 8.5 minutes later, touching …
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Twenty-eight more Starlink satellites are now in Earth orbit after launching from Florida on Tuesday night (July 29). A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off at 11:37 p.m. EDT (0337 GMT on July 30) rom Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. After a nine minute climb into space, the 28 Starlink broadband internet …
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