Can we save the night sky from satellite streaks? Legal comment launches as constellation companies scramble to satisfy astronomers' concerns.
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Recap: SpaceX successfully launches Crew Dragon with Bob Behnken & Doug Hurley on SpX Demo-2 mission to the International Space Station, restoring US spaceflight for the first time in nine years
Decided I'd post a text post and provide links to all the content, since there's so much and it's all quite diverse. I'll update this post throughout the day with more content: NASA Press Release:...
Decided I'd post a text post and provide links to all the content, since there's so much and it's all quite diverse. I'll update this post throughout the day with more content:
- NASA Press Release: NASA Astronauts Launch from America in Historic Test Flight of SpaceX Crew Dragon
- Live stream & launch video, courtesy SpaceX & NASA. This is going to be live all the way through to docking with the ISS.
- NASA Spaceflight (Good resource, quite in-depth): SpaceX Dragon’s historic launch dodges weather to launch and end the gap
- SpaceNews: Crew Dragon in orbit after historic launch, by Jeff Foust
- The Verge: A cute stuffed dinosaur hitched a ride on SpaceX’s historic launch
- The Verge: Watch NASA astronauts fly SpaceX’s Crew Dragon using touchscreens
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SpaceX’s Dragon launch ushers in a new era for Americans in space
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SpaceX Starship prototype SN4 destroyed in spectacular fashion after static-fire test
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How SpaceX and NASA keeps astronauts safe during launch
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SpaceX overcame never-before-seen parachute deploy and thruster problems during Crew Dragon development
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Rocket Lab to resume launches in June
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SpaceX COO Gwynne Shotwell on prospects for Starship launcher
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Virgin Orbit recap: first launch attempt fails
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Weather scrubs SpaceX commercial crew launch, Demo-2
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Watch the SpaceX Demo-2 crewed launch livestream at 4:33pm ET, May 27th
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No, NASA didn't find a parallel universe where time runs backward
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As the US regains the ability to launch astronauts with its own rockets, the future of Russia's already struggling civil space program is unclear
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Small satellite launcher Virgin Orbit plans to fly its rocket for the first time this weekend
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On the Moon, astronaut pee will be a hot commodity. Urine can be used for landing pads, gardens, and drinking water. But will there be enough to go around?
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NASA and SpaceX have cleared the Demo-2 mission for May 27, will be the first launch of astronauts on an American rocket from American soil since 2011
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The birth of NASAs space program | The Saturn V story
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Freaky ‘active’ object in Jupiter’s orbit is first of its kind seen by astronomers
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Searching for scalar dark matter using compact mechanical resonators: Resonators could access a broad segment of previously unprobed parameter space
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United States seeks to change the rules for mining the Moon
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Mystery of lava-like flows on Mars solved by scientists: mud volcanoes
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NASA will likely add a rendezvous test to the first piloted Orion space mission
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Japan’s HTV cargo vehicle ready for launch with last set of new International Space Station solar batteries
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A senior engineer has left SpaceX to work for Relativity Space
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US Navy releases new UFO incident reports: This is about newly-released written incident reports, not the grainy videos that made headlines several weeks ago
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United Launch Alliance launches robotic X-37B space plane on sixth classified mission
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If rockets were transparent—a visualization of propellant consumption between the Saturn V, Space Shuttle, Falcon Heavy, and Space Launch System
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Apollo 11: From lunar orbit to landing
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NOAA space weather enthusiasts dashboard
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The great geomagnetic storm of May 1921
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Via $8.9 million fleet surveillance contract, US Space Force to get deeper insight into inner workings of SpaceX commercial launches
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International Space Station Docking Simulator, by SpaceX
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New type-II supernova 2020jfo detected in Messier 61 galaxy
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NASA's former EmDrive lead left to pursue a new project
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X-37B space plane's microwave power beam experiment is a way bigger deal than it seems
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NASA planning to launch an integrated Lunar Gateway in 2023
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ESO instrument finds black hole 1000 lightyears from Earth
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NASA evaluation sees SpaceX lunar lander as innovative but risky
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SpaceX Crew Dragon in-flight escape demonstration recap
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Research reveals possible active tectonic system on the moon
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NASA is counting on a lot of unproven rockets for its Artemis plan
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NASA has selected Blue Origin, Dynetics, and SpaceX to design and develop human landing systems for landing astronauts on the Moon by 2024
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Taking on the challenge of Mars sample return
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SpaceX to test Starlink “sun visor” to reduce brightness
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Pentagon officially releases UFO videos
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Long-lost US military satellite found by amateur radio operator
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Tory Bruno, Lunar Aspirations and Industry Mentoring, Laurel, Maryland, February 28, 2020
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The Hubble Space Telescope launched thirty years ago—then the problems began
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SpaceX's Starlink satellite constellation passes 400 satellites with seventh dedicated launch, Falcon 9 successfully lands on drone ship
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Standing room only crowd engages in student’s warp drive theory speech
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