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SpaceX launches 28 Starlink satellites on Sunday sunrise Falcon 9 flight  Spaceflight Now SpaceX launches 28 Starlink internet satellites from Florida’s Space Coast (video)  Space SpaceX launches Starlink 10-27 mission from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida  Florida Today No, it wasn’t UFOs: Here’s what you saw in the sky this morning  WINK News – Southwest Florida SpaceX sunrise launch the 80th on …

IN A NUTSHELL 🛰️ Researchers at Tohoku University reveal a revolutionary propulsion system to address the space debris problem. 💡 The system employs bidirectional plasma ejection to stabilize satellites while removing debris. 🔬 New technology can run on affordable argon, enhancing its practicality for widespread use. 🌌 This innovation aims to prevent the Kessler syndrome, ensuring the sustainability of space …

A Girl Scout who fell into a canyon during a hike in a remote, mountainous part of Southern California earlier this year was rescued within hours after suffering a potentially dangerous concussion thanks to a direct-to-cell satellite service that enables users to get in touch with 911 using a regular smartphone in the absence of terrestrial cell phone coverage. Owners …

Material deep inside Earth — thousands of kilometres down, near the planet’s core — has undergone a mysterious shift. Is Earth’s core leaking? Volcanic rocks provide strongest evidence yet Although the change occurred nearly two decades ago, between 2006 and 2008, scientists discovered it only recently, while analysing data from a pair of satellites that once measured variations in Earth’s …

WASHINGTON — NASA has restored contact with one of a pair of space science satellites that ran into problems shortly after its July launch. In a Sept. 11 statement, NASA said it reconnected with SV1, one of two identical Tandem Reconnection and Cusp Electrodynamics Reconnaissance Satellites, or TRACERS, launched July 23. The other spacecraft, SV2, completed post-launch commissioning without issue. …

Alaska’s Alsek Glacier has retreated more than 3 miles (5 kilometers) since 1984, turning Prow Knob into an island. (Image credit: NASA Earth Observatory images by Michala Garrison, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey.) NASA satellite imagery has revealed a new island off Alaska’s coast that emerged after long-standing glacial ice melted, isolating a small mountain that was once …

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 …

China has unveiled its mission to impact deliberately a near-Earth asteroid by 2030 – a decisive step toward establishing its planetary defense and asteroid resource utilization capabilities.  The move comes three years after the United States successfully conducted its own Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission in 2022, which demonstrated the feasibility of using a kinetic impactor to alter an …

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying 24 Starlink satellites soared into the blue sky over California on Saturday (Sept. 6) after emerging 20 seconds into its flight from a fog layer typical of its launch site. The booster lifted off at 2:06 p.m. EDT (1806 GMT or 11:06 a.m. PDT local time) from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at …

A remarkable geological phenomenon has been observed in the floodplains of Kazakhstan, where a colossal sandy formation, nicknamed the “sandy slug,” is slowly moving across the landscape. This unusual event has been documented by both ground observations and satellite imagery, including striking images from NASA’s Earth Observatory, which captured the dune field’s gradual migration. Scientists are particularly intrigued by how …