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CBS News

After an exhaustive review of suspect transistors in NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft, NASA managers have cleared the probe for launch next month as planned on a $5.2 billion mission to find out if a suspected sub-surface ocean on Jupiter’s icy moon …

The Washington Post

NASA’s future is at risk due to budget issues and aging infrastructure, according to aerospace experts. 4 min. 0. Artemis I, with the unmanned Orion spacecraft aboard, blasts off in November 2022. (Jonathan Newton/The Washington Post).

Space.com

The four-person Polaris Dawn mission launched early this morning (Sept. 10), with the goal of making some spaceflight history. Polaris Dawn, which aims to conduct the first-ever private spacewalk, lifted off atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket today at 5:23 …

Space.com

It’s the ultimate telescope vs. supermassive black hole tag-team match as the NASA team of Chandra and Hubble pin down a supermassive black hole pairing! Not only was this black hole tag team surprisingly close to Earth, but they were also in tight …

Space.com

Both eclipses are, of course, related. A solar eclipse can occur only when the moon is at a node of its orbit. (The nodes are the two points where the moon’s path on the sky crosses the sun’s path, the ecliptic). During the solar eclipse, the moon will be …

BBC News

Billionaire Jared Isaacman has taken off in a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket for what he hopes will be the first ever privately funded spacewalk. The mission, called Polaris Dawn, is the first of three funded by the founder of payments processing business …

CNN

In atomic clocks, signals that excite the atoms oscillate at a frequency of billions of times per second. Researchers recently developed a technique that could elevate this accuracy by triggering and measuring oscillations in an even trickier …

Space.com

China has advanced the launch of its Tianwen 3 Mars sample-return mission to 2028. The new timeline, two years sooner than originally planned, suggests that China could bring Mars samples to Earth as soon as 2031. Speaking at the second International …

The New York Times

The five-day mission, known as Polaris Dawn, is a collaboration between Mr. Isaacman and SpaceX, the rocket company led by Elon Musk. It will mark some milestones for private spaceflight — the …

CNN

The Long March 5 Y-4 rocket takes off from the Wenchang Space Launch Center in China’s Hainan island carrying the uncrewed Tianwen-1 Mars probe on July 23, 2020. Carlos Garcia Rawlins …