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Starlink's head of India resigns as SpaceX refunds preorders
Space News - 4 Jan 2022 18:46
Starlink's lead executive in India said he resigned Friday for personal reasons, a month after the country's government ordered SpaceX to stop preselling the satellite broadband service until it gives regulatory approval...
SpaceX Cargo Dragon Awaits Its Flight Home
SpaceRef - 4 Jan 2022 03:43
The SpaceX Cargo Dragon vehicle is pictured docked to the International Space Station while orbiting 265 miles above Europe....
Astronomers Find 70 Planets Without Stars Floating Free in the Milky Way
Universe Today - 4 Jan 2022 23:26
A international team of astronomers, using observatories all over the world (and one in space), discovered 70 new rogue planets - the largest sample ever! The post Astronomers Find 70 Planets Without Stars Floating Free ...
NASA Space Station On-Orbit Status Report 3 January, 2021 - Cotton Genetics
SpaceRef - 4 Jan 2022 23:01
The five astronauts and two cosmonauts of Expedition 66 started the first work week of 2022 researching microgravity science, reviewing Crew Dragon emergency procedures and ramping up for a spacewalk....
Real-time alert system heralds new era in fast radio burst research
Phys.org - 4 Jan 2022 22:06
McGill University scientists have developed a new system for sharing the enormous amount of data being generated by the CHIME radio telescope in its search for fast radio bursts (FRBs), the puzzling extragalactic phenome...
James Webb Space Telescope completes tricky sunshield deployment
SPACE.com - 4 Jan 2022 20:50
The James Webb Space Telescope has successfully deployed all five layers of its tennis-court-sized sunshield.
Last astronauts to visit Hubble Space Telescope sign coins for AMF fundraiser
SPACE.com - 4 Jan 2022 20:34
As eyes turn to the deployment of a new space telescope, the Astronauts Memorial Foundation is shining light on the last astronauts to visit one, offering Hubble coins with STS-125 crew autographs.
'Space Force' Season 2 will land on Netflix in February
SPACE.com - 4 Jan 2022 20:12
Plus dates of all the other sci-fi coming to the small screen in 2022
Success! Webb Sunshield Now Fully Deployed
Universe Today - 4 Jan 2022 19:43
If you felt a little more tension - and perhaps more goosebumps — in the Universe today, it's probably because the James Webb Space Telescope's sunshield is now completely and successfully deployed! All five layers of ...
Webb telescope fully deploys sunshield in mission milestone
Phys.org - 4 Jan 2022 19:34
The James Webb Space Telescope fully deployed its tennis-court sized sunshield Tuesday, a critical milestone for the success of its mission to study every phase of cosmic history, NASA said.
Second and third layers of Webb telescope sunshield fully tightened
Phys.org - 4 Jan 2022 19:33
The Webb team has completed tensioning for the first three layers of the observatory's kite-shaped sunshield, 47 feet across and 70 feet long.
Orion's fireplace: New image of the Flame Nebula
Phys.org - 4 Jan 2022 19:30
Orion offers you a spectacular firework display to celebrate the holiday season and the new year with this new image from the European Southern Observatory (ESO). But no need to worry, this iconic constellation is neithe...
Resolving the black hole 'fuzzball or wormhole' debate
Phys.org - 4 Jan 2022 19:28
Black holes really are giant fuzzballs, a new study says.
Sunshield Successfully Deploys on NASA's Next Flagship Telescope
NASA Breaking news - 4 Jan 2022 17:51Study explores the substructure of massive clump AGAL35
Phys.org - 4 Jan 2022 17:21
Using the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA), Argentinian astronomers have investigated a massive molecular clump known as AGAL35 (or AGAL G035.1330'00.7450). Results of the study, published December 27 on the arXiv p...
Op-ed | Is there enough room in space for tens of billions of satellites, as Elon Musk suggests? We don't think so.
Space News - 4 Jan 2022 17:05
Elon Musk's stance is overly optimistic. Space is big, but LEO is not big enough to safely accommodate tens of billions of satellites. SpaceNews
Converting auroral observations into 3D structures
Phys.org - 4 Jan 2022 16:06
A persistent obstacle to a more complete understanding of Earth's auroral activity is characterizing the structure of auroral arcs in 3D. In situ observations, such as spacecraft transits, can directly observe only a nar...
India's space program looks to bounce back
Space News - 4 Jan 2022 14:51
After a year marked by little launch activity and one high-profile failure, the head of India's space program says he expects much more in 2022, including an uncrewed test flight for its human spaceflight program. SpaceN...
'Cosmic monster' star spits energy with the force of a billion suns
SPACE.com - 4 Jan 2022 14:03
Scientists just collected the first measurements of violent eruptions in extremely dense magnetic stars called magnetars.
To Victorians, Flower Arrangements Were Often Secret Messages
Discover - 4 Jan 2022 14:00
The roots of floriography -- the symbolic language of flowers -- run deep throughout Europe and Asia, but the question of its origin is thorny.
JWST begins sunshield tensioning
Space News - 4 Jan 2022 13:59
Spacecraft controllers started the final steps in the deployment of the sunshield of the James Webb Space Telescope Jan. 3 after fixing two minor issues with the spacecraft. SpaceNews
Some black holes are anything but black - and we've found more than 75,000 of the brightest ones
SPACE.com - 4 Jan 2022 13:49
New research has road-tested a way to spot some of the most voracious black holes of all, making it easier to find them buried deep in the hearts of distant galaxies.