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SpaceX Launches 24 Starlink Satellites to Expand Global Internet Coverage
SpaceX successfully launched its first Starlink mission of 2025 on January 6, sending 24 satellites into orbit to expand its global internet network. The Falcon 9 rocket’s first stage returned to Earth, landing on the droneship "Just Read the Instructions," marking the 17th successful landing for this particular booster. The Starlink constellatio...
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European Space Agency in Talks with SpaceX for Global Initiative on Space Junk Reduction
The European Space Agency (ESA) is currently in discussions with SpaceX regarding the latter’s potential involvement in a global initiative to address space junk. With nearly 19,000 pieces of debris orbiting Earth, ESA’s Zero Debris Charter aims to halt the addition of new debris by 2030. As SpaceX operates about two-thirds of active satellites...
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Earth's Real Orbit, And Why High-School Textbooks Are Wrong About Its Shape
If you've ever been taught about how Earth orbits around the Sun, you might well think our planet travels along an oval-shaped path. You'd have a good reason to think that, too: it's how most textbooks show things.
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NASA’s Juno Mission Captures Huge Storms on Jupiter’s Surface
NASA's Juno spacecraft has delivered a phenomenal picture of the Jupiter surface. The shot features fascinating vortices or hurricane-like spiral wind patterns forming near Jupiter's north pole. The Juno mission flew past close to Jupiter on July 5 this year. It clicked the striking photo using its JunoCam instrument.
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Still On Drawing Board, ISRO's Newest Rocket "Baby PSLV" Scores A Deal
It's a deal that is almost unheard of in the space industry. The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has been able to sell a dedicated commercial launch of the Small Satellite Launch Vehicle (SSLV) to an American company months before the rocket is any shape to lift off.
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China's Tiangong 1 Space Station Will Fall To Earth - Somewhere - In 2017.
Tiangong 1, China's first space laboratory, will come to a fiery end in late 2017. The average decommissioned satellite either burns up over a specific ocean region, or is ejected to a far-off orbital graveyard. But Tiangong 1's demise is shaping up to be something different.
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SpaceX Launches 24 Starlink Satellites to Expand Global Internet Coverage
SpaceX successfully launched its first Starlink mission of 2025 on January 6, sending 24 satellites into orbit to expand its global internet network. The Falcon 9 rocket’s first stage returned to Earth, landing on the droneship "Just Read the Instructions," marking the 17th successful landing for this particular booster. The Starlink constellatio...
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European Space Agency in Talks with SpaceX for Global Initiative on Space Junk Reduction
The European Space Agency (ESA) is currently in discussions with SpaceX regarding the latter’s potential involvement in a global initiative to address space junk. With nearly 19,000 pieces of debris orbiting Earth, ESA’s Zero Debris Charter aims to halt the addition of new debris by 2030. As SpaceX operates about two-thirds of active satellites...
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Earth's Real Orbit, And Why High-School Textbooks Are Wrong About Its Shape
If you've ever been taught about how Earth orbits around the Sun, you might well think our planet travels along an oval-shaped path. You'd have a good reason to think that, too: it's how most textbooks show things.
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NASA’s Juno Mission Captures Huge Storms on Jupiter’s Surface
NASA's Juno spacecraft has delivered a phenomenal picture of the Jupiter surface. The shot features fascinating vortices or hurricane-like spiral wind patterns forming near Jupiter's north pole. The Juno mission flew past close to Jupiter on July 5 this year. It clicked the striking photo using its JunoCam instrument.
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Still On Drawing Board, ISRO's Newest Rocket "Baby PSLV" Scores A Deal
It's a deal that is almost unheard of in the space industry. The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has been able to sell a dedicated commercial launch of the Small Satellite Launch Vehicle (SSLV) to an American company months before the rocket is any shape to lift off.
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China's Tiangong 1 Space Station Will Fall To Earth - Somewhere - In 2017.
Tiangong 1, China's first space laboratory, will come to a fiery end in late 2017. The average decommissioned satellite either burns up over a specific ocean region, or is ejected to a far-off orbital graveyard. But Tiangong 1's demise is shaping up to be something different.
