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SpaceX Transporter-6 successfully launched Europe's first solar sail mission
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Bullitt selects Skylo for its newly announced smartphones and two-way messaging service
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ROCK Robotic announces ROCK Base, a 1,400-channel triple-frequency RTK base station
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Retired NASA satellite expected to fall to Earth on Sunday
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Scientists eager to analyze International Space Station experiments soon
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Once in 50,000-year comet may be visible to the naked eye
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A newly discovered comet could be visible to the naked eye as it shoots past Earth and the Sun in the coming weeks for the first time in 50,000 years, astronomers have said.
The comet is called C/2022 E3 (ZTF) after the Zwicky Transient Facility, which first spotted it passing Jupiter in March last year.
After traveling from the icy reaches of our Solar System it will come closest to the Sun on January 12 and pass nearest to Earth on February 1.
It will be easy to spot with a good pair of binoculars and likely even with the naked eye, provided the sky is not too illuminated by city lights or the Moon.
The comet "will be brightest when it is closest to the Earth", Thomas Prince, a physics professor at the California Institute of Technology who works at the Zwicky Transient Facility, told AFP.
Old NASA satellite falling from sky this weekend, low threat
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![In this photo made available by NASA, the space shuttle Challenger launches the Earth Radiation Budget Satellite in 1984. On Friday, Jan. 6, 2023, the U.S. space agency said the 38-year-old NASA satellite is about to fall from the sky, but the chance of wreckage falling on anybody is “very low.” It's expected to come down Sunday night, give or take 17 hours. Credit: NASA via AP Old NASA satellite falling from sky this weekend, low threat](https://scx1.b-cdn.net/csz/news/800a/2023/old-nasa-satellite-fal.jpg)
Stellantis to build electric aircraft with Archer and provide strategic funding for growth
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Black carbon aerosols accelerate loss of glacial mass over the Tibetan plateau
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Deadly Ukraine strike reveals Russian tech weakness
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