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Mars - or Arrakis

Curiosity powers on with extra energy for Martian science

A large asteroid will pass by Earth this week - should we worry?

Eagles complete CubeSat construction; next stop: the Moon

Virgin Orbit's begins pre-flight prep before its end of year flight

SpinLaunch conducts first successful test of giant 'suborbital accelerator' satellite sling

SpaceX deploys 53 Starlink internet satellites from Falcon 9 rocket

SpaceX launches 53 Starlink satellites into orbit

SpaceX expanded its constellation of low Earth orbit satellites on Saturday with the launch of 53 Starlink satellites from Florida.
A Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at 7:19 a.m. EST and deployed the satellites about 16 minutes after launch.
An 'earthgrazer' flew 'a whopping 186 miles' over two states, then vanished, NASA says

A space object with an intimidating name—"earthgrazer"—zoomed over Georgia and Alabama this week, offering witnesses a glimpse of something rare, NASA says.
"Earthgrazers" are fireball meteors with a trajectory so shallow that they skim long distances across the upper atmosphere, NASA says.
"Very rarely, they even 'bounce off' the atmosphere and head back out into space," NASA Meteor Watch wrote on Facebook.
The fireball appeared Tuesday, Nov. 9, around 6:30 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time, officials say, and was "detected by three NASA meteor cameras in the region."
It entered the atmosphere "at a very shallow angle—only 5 degrees from the horizontal."
In fact, it was flying for so long that NASA had to recalculate its data to determine how far it traveled across the planet.
"The meteor was first seen at an altitude of 55 miles above the Georgia town of Taylorsville, moving northwest at 38,500 miles per hour," NASA says. Taylorsville is about 55 miles northwest of downtown Atlanta.
"Its path was so long that our automated software could not handle all the data. So we ran another analysis code this morning (Nov.
Throwing a Cosmic Kiss – Matthias Maurer's journey to the International Space Station

ESA astronaut Matthias Maurer and NASA astronauts Raja Chari, Tom Marshburn and Kayla Barron liftoff to the International Space Station in the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft “Endurance”.
Collectively known as “Crew-3”, the astronauts were launched from launchpad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, USA at 02:03 GMT/03:03 CET Thursday 11 November.
The spacecraft docked to the International Space Station at 00:32 CET Friday, 12 November/23:32 GMT Thursday, 11 November, marking the official start of Matthias's first mission.
Crew-3 will spend around six months living and working aboard the orbital outpost before returning to Earth. It is the first space mission for Matthias, who’s become the