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Saturday, 18 November 2023 12:55
Starship Test Flies Higher: SpaceX Marks Progress Despite Late Test Incident
Starbase TX (SPX) Nov 19, 2023
SpaceX marked a significant step forward in its ambitious space exploration program with the second test launch of the Starship, the world's largest rocket, designed for missions to Mars and beyond. Although the launch was largely successful, it encountered an issue at the eight-minute mark.
The Starship launch, which took off from SpaceX's Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas, on Saturday at 7:0

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Saturday, 18 November 2023 01:41
Amazon's Project Kuiper completes successful tests of broadband connectivity
Washington DC (UPI) Nov 16, 2021
Initial testing of Amazon's Project Kuiper was successful, putting the project on track to begin offering high-speed Internet to select customers next year, the company announced Thursday.
The Protoflight mission launched from Cape Canaveral on Oct. 6, with two test satellites, Kuipersat-1 and Kuipersat-2. The company aims to install 3,236 satellites into low Earth orbit by the end of 2

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Saturday, 18 November 2023 01:41
SpaceX poised for second launch of mega Starship rocket
Starbase, United States (AFP) Nov 18, 2023
SpaceX is poised Saturday for the second test launch of Starship, the largest rocket ever built that Elon Musk hopes will one day colonize Mars, while NASA awaits a modified version to land humans on the Moon.
It comes after a first attempt to fly the spaceship in its fully-stacked configuration back in April ended in a spectacular explosion over the Gulf of Mexico.
SpaceX has insisted t

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Friday, 17 November 2023 16:32
NASA's Deep Space Optical Comm demo sends, receives first data

DSOC, an experiment that could transform how spacecraft communicate, has achieved "first light," sending data via laser to and from far beyond the moon for the first time.
NASA's Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) experiment has beamed a near-infrared laser encoded with test data from nearly 10 million miles (16 million kilometers) away—about 40 times farther than the moon is from Earth—to the Hale Telescope at Caltech's Palomar Observatory in San Diego County, California.
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Friday, 17 November 2023 15:00
Juice manouevre lines it up for 2024 Earth-Moon flyby

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Friday, 17 November 2023 15:00
Juice burns hard towards first-ever Earth-Moon flyby

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Friday, 17 November 2023 13:37
Study of WE0913A moon impactor shows it was a Chinese booster rocket with an unknown object attached

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Friday, 17 November 2023 12:30
Week in images: 13-17 November 2023

Week in images: 13-17 November 2023
Discover our week through the lens
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Friday, 17 November 2023 08:00
Earth from Space: North Channel

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Friday, 17 November 2023 08:45
Brightest flash ever disturbed Earth's atmosphere last year
Paris (AFP) Nov 14, 2023
Last year the brightest flash of light ever seen in the night sky disturbed Earth's upper atmosphere in a way that has never before detected before, researchers said on Tuesday.
A massive burst of gamma rays from an enormous cosmic explosion around two billion light years away arrived at Earth on October 9, 2022, lighting up telescopes around the world.
Quickly nicknamed the "BOAT" - f

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