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⋅ July 10, 2024
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Space.com

SpaceX rivals challenge Starship launch license in Florida over environmental, safety concerns
Space.com
SpaceX’s plans to launch its Starship–Super Heavy two-stage rocket 44 times per year from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida have come under fire from its two main rivals: United Launch Alliance (ULA) and Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin.
Space.com

Hubble Space Telescope finds closest massive black hole to Earth — a cosmic clue frozen in time
Space.com
The black hole appears to have a mass of around 8,200 suns, which makes it considerably more massive than stellar-mass black holes with masses between 5 and 100 times that of the sun, and much less massive than aptly named supermassive black holes, which …
Space.com

New study shows mysterious solar particle blasts can devastate the ozone layer, bathing Earth in radiation for years
Space.com
The remarkable aurora in early May this year demonstrated the power that solar storms can emit as radiation, but occasionally the sun does something far more destructive. An aurora visible over Utah from the International Space Station, photographed in …
CNN

Boeing Starliner astronaut says the spacecraft is ‘truly amazing’ despite malfunctions and delays
CNN
NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test astronauts (from top) Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams pose for a portrait inside the vestibule between the forward port on the International Space Station’s Harmony module and Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft on June 13, 2024.
The Planetary Society

The House’s 2025 NASA Budget Creates Problems for Science, Artemis
The Planetary Society
The shortfall does not impact every aspect of the space agency evenly: NASA’s Deep Space Exploration account, which is responsible for the Artemis return to the Moon program, would receive its requested amount of $7.6 billion. The Science Mission …
Phys.Org

The geometry of life: Physicists determine what controls biofilm growth
Phys.Org
“Some research says that 80% of infections in human bodies can be attributed to the bacteria growing in biofilms,” Aawaz Pokhrel says, Georgia Institute of Technology Ph.D. student and lead author of a new study that uses physics to investigate how these …
Space.com

Europe’s Mars sample return orbiter moving ahead despite NASA budget uncertainty
Space.com
The spacecraft, which will catch a Mars surface sample traveling in Martian orbit and bring it to Earth, has passed its design review. Comments (0). a cube-shaped spacecraft with two large wing-like solar panels in orbit above.
The New York Times

NASA Says No Plan to Use SpaceX to Rescue Boeing Starliner Astronauts
The New York Times
In a news conference from aboard the International Space Station, Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams said they had confidence in the troubled spacecraft to get them home.
BBC News

Dinosaur named after finder who died of cancer
BBC News
The 125 million-year-old specimen was found in Compton Bay on the Isle of Wight in 2013 by fossil hunter Nick Chase, who died of cancer in 2019. PhD student Jeremy Lockwood determined the …
Space.com

NOAA’s upcoming GeoXO satellites could be ‘weather-monitoring platform of the future’
Space.com
NASA has awarded Lockheed Martin a $2.27 billion contract to build NOAA’s next generation GeoXO weather satellite constellation. Comments (0). a cube-shaped satellite in orbit above earth points a laser-like light down. A rendering of the upcoming …