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Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak’s startup Privateer aims to help humanity get the goods on space junk before it’s too late. The Hawaii-based company, whose existence Wozniak and co-founder Alex Fielding announced in September, wants to characterize the …

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Lunar eclipses are more common than the perhaps better-known solar eclipses but they’re no less spectacular from a photographic point of view. Instead of capturing the blocked outline of the sun, photographers can aim their cameras at a moon that’s tinted …

Spaceflight Now

As he did before the debut of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy rockets, Musk tried to manage expectations on the outcome of the first Starship orbital launch attempt. “We’ve completed the first orbital …

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Rocket Lab successfully launched two satellites into orbit and aimed to recover the mission’s booster, taking another step in its quest to build a partially reusable launch vehicle. The company’s two-stage Electron rocket topped with two commercial …

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“We’re going to look at everything there is in the universe that we can see,” Webb senior project scientist John Mather told reporters in a press conference on Wednesday (Nov. 18).

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The company is targeting January or February for its first Starship orbital launch attempt, SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk said Wednesday (Nov. 17). And that initial landmark leap will ideally be followed by a number of others shortly thereafter.

Scientific American

But Rivkin, a planetary astronomer at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Baltimore, has found himself with more responsibility than he expected. Along with hundreds of others, he is part of …

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Lunar eclipses happen when the moon passes into the shadow of the Earth and is at least partially covered by our planet’s shadow. At its peak, the Beaver Moon will be 97% covered by the Earth’s shadow, and will be well into the deepest part of the shadow ( …

CNN

(CNN) The most powerful telescope ever built is scheduled to launch on December 18. The James Webb Space Telescope will peer into the atmospheres of exoplanets, some of which are potentially habitable, and look deeper into the universe than we’ve ever been …

CNET

DART, which stands for Double Asteroid Redirection Test, is NASA’s test run of a futuristic planetary defense system that’ll protect Earth from incoming asteroids by literally slamming spacecraft into them. Get the CNET …