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⋅ May 25, 2024
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Space.com

‘It’s so complicated:’ Boeing Starliner teams diagnosing helium leak ahead of June 1 astronaut launch
Space.com
Starliner is still set to fly on its historic first flight with astronauts on June 1, but that could change as the team works through “complicated” issues following a small helium leak. NASA and Boeing officials emphasized they are carefully weighing …
Space.com

Will a ‘rare’ lineup of planets be visible to the naked eye in the night sky on June 3?
Space.com
One of things that I have enjoyed in my more than 22 years of writing the Night Sky column for Space.com is alerting readers to hoaxes or celestial falsehoods that are widely circulated on the internet. While I have done my best to steer readers clear …
Spaceflight Now

SpaceX details learnings from Starship Flight 3, sets June 5 as target launch date for Flight 4
Spaceflight Now
Onboard cameras on the Starship upper stage flown during Flight 3 (Starship IFT-3) show the vehicle surrounded by plasma as it reenters the atmosphere on March 14, 2024. Image: SpaceX. SpaceX is preparing to launch its massive Starship rocket on its …
Spaceflight Now

NASA, Rocket Lab prepare for back-to-back launches of climate-monitoring PREFIRE spacecraft
Spaceflight Now
The PREFIRE mission will launch the first of two CubeSats – depicted in this artist’s concept orbiting Earth – into space on Wednesday, May 22, 2024, to study how much heat the planet absorbs and emits from its polar regions.
CNN

Scientists locate origin of the sun’s magnetic field
CNN
Visible light images from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory highlight the appearance of the Sun at solar. Video Ad Feedback. WATCH: Everything you wanted …
CNN

NASA PREFIRE mission set to launch to study Earth’s polar regions
CNN
The climate science mission, known as Polar Radiant Energy in the Far-InfraRed Experiment, or PREFIRE, aims to improve scientists’ understanding of how water vapor, clouds and other elements of Earth’s atmosphere trap heat and keep it from radiating into …
Livescience.com

Black hole spin speed revealed in new study of churning space-time
Livescience.com
Scientists have calculated the speed of a spinning supermassive black hole by studying the ‘spaghettified’ remains of a star it destroyed. An artist’s rendering of a black hole. Black holes can rip apart stars in a phenomenon called a tidal disruption …
News 13 Orlando

NASA: Crewed Starliner will launch with helium leak
News 13 Orlando
CAPE CANAVERAL SPACE FORCE STATION — During a teleconference on the updates of the delayed-prone maiden crewed launch of Boeing’s Starliner, NASA confirmed with Spectrum News that it will send up the spacecraft that has a small helium leak.
The New York Times

NASA Astronauts to Wait Another Week for Boeing Starliner Launch
The New York Times
Officials from NASA and Boeing say they have worked out a solution to a helium leak that has kept the Starliner astronaut capsule grounded. Share full article.
Florida Today

“We feel very comfortable:” Starliner on track for June 1 launch from Cape Canaveral
Florida Today
After spending weeks working through first an issue with a valve on the rocket then a helium leak on the spacecraft and, finally, making sure that if multiple things went wrong in space, the crewed Starliner could still get home, NASA, Boeing and …