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Spaceflight Now

The upgraded Starlink V2 Mini satellites are an intermediate step between SpaceX’s original Starlink satellite design, and an even larger spacecraft platform SpaceX plans to deploy using its new-generation Starship rocket. The Starship has nearly 10 …

Space.com

SpaceX’s next astronaut mission for NASA will now lift off early Thursday morning (March 2), if all goes according to plan. Elon Musk’s company originally aimed to launch the Crew-6 mission to the International Space Station (ISS) early Monday (Feb.

Spaceflight Now

STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION. Russian cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev, pilot Warren “Woody” Hoburg, NASA commander Stephen Bowen, and Emirati astronaut Sultan Alneyadi (left to right) are heading to the International Space Station for a …

Spaceflight Now

A replacement for a damaged Russian Soyuz crew ferry spacecraft docked at the International Space Station Saturday night, two days after launching from Kazakhstan on a mission to give two Russian cosmonauts and a NASA astronaut a ride back to Earth …

Space.com

The moon and Mars will make for a nice spectacle in the night sky tonight. According to calendars and almanacs, Monday evening (Feb. 27) bring us a first quarter moon. It’s also sometimes called the “half” moon, although as darkness falls across North …

Phys.Org

A 3D simulation of the wake behind the electron beam (purple) and how a light pulse (blue and red stripe) might surf behind it. The plasma wake is shown in alternating yellow for the absence of electrons and green for peaks in the electron density.

CNN

This mission will include crew members from all over the world — two NASA astronauts, a Russian cosmonaut and an astronaut from the United Arab Emirates. The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon capsule are expected …

Spaceflight Now

NASA commander Steve Bowen, pilot Woody Hoburg, and mission specialists Sultan Alneyadi and Andrey Fedyaev inside the crew access arm at Launch Complex 39A during a countdown rehearsal early Friday. Credit: SpaceX. Led by a three-time space shuttle …

Cornell Chronicle

Scanning the first images of a well-known early galaxy taken by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), Cornell astronomers were intrigued to see a blob of light near its outer edge. Their initial focus, and the infrared observatory’s target, …

Livescience.com

A circular depression that holds a vineyard in a French winery is actually an old impact crater, new research finds. The crater sits in the appropriately named Domaine du Météore winery near Cabrerolles in southern France.