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January 8, 2023
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Space.com

Watch SpaceX launch 40 OneWeb internet satellites Monday night

SpaceX plans to launch another big batch of internet satellites for the communications company OneWeb on Monday night (Jan. 9), and you can watch the action live. A Falcon 9 rocket topped with 40 of OneWeb’s broadband satellites is scheduled to lift …

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Space.com

Amazing photos of gorgeously green Comet C/2022 E3 (ZFT)

The photographer also added that “There are several faint (16th to 17th magnitude) PGC [Principal Galaxies Catalogue] galaxies visible in this image as the comet was moving through Ursa Major.” If you …

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EarthSky

How to find life on Enceladus? Look in the plumes

View larger. | Artist’s concept of the Cassini spacecraft sweeping past Saturn’s moon Enceladus and its famous water vapor plumes. Cassini orbited Saturn from 2004 to 2017. It flew through the plumes many times and analyzed their contents.

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Space.com

NASA’s moon-orbiting space station will be claustrophobic, architect says

Living quarters of NASA’s moon orbiting Gateway station will be so tiny that astronauts will not be able to stand upright inside, an architect involved in the station’s design said. NASA and its international partners plan to begin construction of the …

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Spaceflight Now

Launch preps underway for first of up to five Falcon Heavy missions this year

The mission for the Space Force, designated USSF-67, will deploy two military spacecraft into a high-altitude geosynchronous orbit more than 22,000 miles (nearly 36,000 kilometers) over the equator. It will be …

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Mashable

Old NASA satellite may crash to Earth from space on Sunday

A vintage 1980s space satellite is about to make a comeback, but not in the way that Zoomers have treasured acid-wash mom jeans. A dead 5,400-pound piece of NASA equipment will soon re-enter the atmosphere after nearly four decades of orbiting Earth.

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USA TODAY

A newly-discovered comet is nearing Earth. It may be visible to the naked eye — and it’s green

To kick off 2023, Earthlings could catch an extraordinary sight in the sky as a recently discovered comet travels past our world. The comet, dubbed C/2022 E3 (ZTF), was first sighted in March 2022, according to NASA. It likely traveled hundreds of …

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Digital Trends

Hubble sees the ghostly light of lost, wandering stars

However, there are both rogue planets and rogue stars out there, that wander the universe unattached to larger structures. Recently, the Hubble Space Telescope has been used to investigate wandering stars that aren’t tied …

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Digital Trends

South Korean lunar orbiter takes gorgeous images of Earth

The moon is so hot this year, with current or future lunar missions planned from the U.S., Russia, UAE and Japan, and India. And there’s also South Korea, which launched its first lunar mission in August 2022. The Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter (KPLO) …

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Voice of America

NASA Satellite Falling From the Sky Soon

In this photo made available by NASA, the space shuttle Challenger launches the Earth Radiation Budget Satellite in 1984. The science satellite is expected to fall back to Earth on or around Jan. 8, 2023.

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