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Spaceflight Now

The debut of United Launch Alliance’s next generation rocket, the Vulcan Centaur, is now scheduled for the fourth quarter of 2023, following an investigation into a mishap that destroyed an upper-stage test article, company CEO and President Tory Bruno …

CNN

“No two solar cycles are the same,” said Mark Miesch, research scientist at the Space Weather Prediction Center. “This solar maximum is the space weather equivalent of hurricane season. It’s when we see the biggest storms. But unlike hurricane season, …

The New York Times

India is on its way back to the moon after a rocket lifted off from Sriharikota, a launch site off the country’s East Coast, on Friday afternoon local time. The mission, Chandrayaan-3, is largely a do-over after the country’s first attempt at putting a …

Space.com

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch on its record-tying 16th mission Saturday night (July 15), and you can watch the action live. A Falcon 9 topped with 54 of SpaceX’s Starlink internet satellites is scheduled to lift off from Cape Canaveral Space …

Space.com

Some rivers on ancient Mars flowed for long enough stretches to create bona fide habitable environments on the Red Planet, a new study suggests. A new technique developed by geologists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) makes use of …

The New York Times

That has proved true for the Vulcan, a new rocket developed by the United Launch Alliance, a joint venture between Boeing and Lockheed Martin. The first Vulcan was supposed to launch in May, but a propellant tank cracked during testing in March.

Space.com

The new dating system doesn’t change estimates of the moon’s age as a whole, which remains around 4.53 billion years. Comments (0). An image of Mare Imbrium taken from Apollo 17 in 1972. Left of centre is the Pytheas crater. Near the top is the …

Space.com

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will have to wait a bit longer to tie a reuse record. The company had planned to launch 54 of its Starlink satellites from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida atop a Falcon 9 on Friday at 12:40 a.m. EDT (0440 GMT).

Scientific American

Vega, the brightest star in the constellation Lyra, is 25 light-years from Earth. It’s what’s called an A-type star—hotter and more massive than the sun. It’s 40 times more luminous than the sun, which is why it appears so bright.

NPR

Scientists have made a surprising discovery in a sample returned from an asteroid: Embedded in its rocks are grains of stardust. The dust, which came from distant stars and drifted through space for millions or billions of years, could provide clues …