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NASA to delay, modify SLS countdown rehearsal
Space News - 10 Apr 2022 01:44
After discovering a problem with a valve on the Space Launch System's upper stage, NASA is delaying a countdown rehearsal and fueling test and modifying it to limit fueling of the upper stage. The post NASA to delay, mod...
House committee leaders ask White House to withdraw proposed NTSB regulations on commercial launch investigations
Space News - 10 Apr 2022 22:12
The leaders of the House Science Committee have asked the Biden administration to withdraw a controversial proposed rule regarding commercial spaceflight investigations, calling it "plainly unlawful." The post House comm...
Space Force is Releasing Decades of Tracking Data on a Thousand Bright Meteor Fireballs
Universe Today - 10 Apr 2022 22:04
When a meteoroid enters the Earth’s atmosphere at a very high speed it heats up. This heating up produces a streak of light and is termed a meteor. When a meteor is bright enough, about the brightness of Venus or brigh...
Is the origin of dark matter gravity itself?
SPACE.com - 10 Apr 2022 14:53
Did the graviton, the quantum mechanical force carrier of gravity, flood the cosmos with dark matter before normal matter even had a chance to get started?
'Magnetic anomalies' may be protecting the moon's ice from melting
SPACE.com - 10 Apr 2022 14:53
'Magnetic anomalies' may be shielding ice in the moon's pitch-black craters, new research suggests.
How do planets form? A 'baby Jupiter' hundreds of light-years away offers new clues
SPACE.com - 10 Apr 2022 14:23
In new research, we have spotted a hot, Jupiter-like gas giant in the process of forming around a star about 500 light-years from Earth.
Stellar jets twist and turn through space in entrancing new photos
SPACE.com - 10 Apr 2022 14:22
Young stars emit gently curving stellar jets in stunning new photos from the Gemini South telescope in Chile.
Space Development Agency to accelerate deployment of missile-tracking satellites
Space News - 10 Apr 2022 13:06
The U.S. Space Force is requesting an additional $200 million in fiscal year 2023 to launch satellites for the Space Development Agency's missile-tracking constellation. The post Space Development Agency to accelerate de...
Abuja, Nigeria As Seen From Orbit
SpaceRef - 10 Apr 2022 00:45
NASA's Terra spacecraft shows Abuja, the capital of Nigeria, one of the fastest growing cities in Africa....