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A Falcon 9 rocket fires its engines Sunday at Cape Canaveral, and is preparing for launch with 60 Starling satellites. Credit: Stephen Clark / Space Travel Now Sixty Starling Internet satellites are ready to orbit Sunday night from Cape Canaveral on the 100th flight of the SpaceX Falcon 9 missile, and the seventh flight of SpaceX’s reusable “Navy Leader” booster. …

The first of two satellites in a $ 1 billion NASA-European project to accurately measure rising sea levels, the main result of global warming, went into orbit on Saturday on the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. Through time, the Sentinel-6 Michael Freelich satellite can monitor sea levels with an accuracy of less than half an inch, depending on how long it …

News, world China plans to launch an unmanned spacecraft to the moon this week to bring back lunar rocks in any nation’s first attempt to retrieve samples from Earth’s natural satellite since the 1970s. Named after the ancient Chinese deity of the moon, the Chang-5 probe will test China’s ability to buy samples remotely from space, even before more complex …

A satellite that allows British scientists to measure sea level has been launched into space on a SpaceX rocket. Copernicus Sentinel-6 Michael Freelich was successfully launched into orbit on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from a launch pad in California. Sentinel-6, the size of a small 4×4 car orbiting the earth from a distance of 830 miles, is said to …

Elon Musk plans to live humans in glass domes on Mars. The CEO of SpaceX has set his vision of taking one million people to the Red Planet by 2050. First life in glass domes. Ultimately, it is designed to support life like Earth. – Elon Musk (ol Elon Musk) November 18, 2020 It is understandable that a lot of …

Greenland is the largest island in the world and has the largest ice mass in the Northern Hemisphere. When all that ice has melted, the sea will rise Over 7 meters. But that’s not going to happen, is it? Well, not any time soon, but understanding how much ice will melt in the coming century is an important and urgent …

Arecibo Laboratory reflection dish suffered damage from broken cable. University of Central Florida This is a sad day for the world of astronomy. The Arecibo Laboratory An epic telescope says goodbye to Puerto Rico where the dish resides. The laboratory underwent rigorous construction Damage when a cable failed in August, And the situation has worsened. The The National Science Foundation …

The most experienced astronaut on SpaceX’s newly launched crew said on Thursday that riding a dragon capsule into orbit was like being inside a real mythical beast and much more fun than NASA’s spacecraft or Russian aircraft. As for the crew’s astronaut, he said the navy’s fighter jets pulled high G or gravity forces, but they did not last as …

A large American space telescope located deep in the Puerto Rican jungle will close after two catastrophic crashes in recent months, ending 57 years of astronomical discoveries. In August, the Arecibo Laboratory, one of the largest in the world, ceased operations, with one of its support cables loosened from its socket and dropped into a 305 m wide (1,000 ft) …

The U.S. National Science Foundation has announced the closure of a large telescope at the prestigious Arecibo Laboratory in Puerto Rico. This is a blow to scientists around the world looking for planets, asteroids and extraterrestrial life. The independent, federal-funded company said operating a single-dish radio telescope was too risky – and one of the largest in the world – …