2025-01-17
SpaceX Starship Leak Details
Youtuber Marcus House and Chamelon Circuit provided a graphic of where the fuel leak was in the SpaceX Starship yesterday. It was just above the engines in the new block 2 Starship. SpaceX has reduced the time needed reconnect after a quick disconnect from over 6 hours to just over 2 hours.
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F.A.A. Temporarily Halts Launches of Musk’s Starship After Explosion
The agency launched an investigation into the “space vehicle mishap” on Thursday night that forced commercial flights to divert and caused debris to rain toward Caribbean islands.
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Doorbell camera captures 1st-ever video of the sound and sight of a meteorite crash-landing
A doorbell camera recorded a rare video of the moment a meteorite fell outside a home.
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James Webb telescope captures 1st 'mid-infrared' flare from Milky Way's supermassive black hole
The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a mid-infrared picture of Sagittarius A*, filling in a long-standing gap in observations..
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RFK Jr. Sought to Stop Covid Vaccinations 6 Months After Rollout
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. petitioned the F.D.A. to revoke authorization of the shots at a time when they were in high demand and considered life-saving.
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Trump Picks Ex-Congressman to Manage U.S. Nuclear Arsenal
Brandon Williams served aboard a nuclear submarine and represented a New York congressional district for one term, but has said little about his experience in the management of atomic weapons.
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Readers Share Their Near-Death Experiences
After the death of Peter Fenwick, a neuropsychiatrist who studied near-death experiences, readers shared stories of their own.
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Study identifies illicit finance risks in Premier League club ownership structures
The Premier League is currently vulnerable to new investors and team owners who could have sourced their wealth from illicit activities.
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A seed-sized signal amplifier chip could boost space communications
Smaller than a strawberry seed, this tiny signal amplifier was produced by the European Space Agency to fill a missing link in current technology, helping to make future radar-observing and telecommunications space missions feasible.
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Space itself may have created galaxies - Phys.org
Space itself may have created galaxies Phys.org
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Researchers combine citizens' help and cutting-edge tech to track biodiversity
Researchers are using new technologies, including AI, as well as contributions from citizen scientists, to improve how we monitor and protect increasingly threatened habitats and species across Europe.
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Hubble tracks down a 'blue lurker' among stars
Our sun is a lonely star. At least half the stars in our galaxy have binary companions. This was nicely illustrated in the Star Wars movie trilogy where Luke Skywalker watched two suns set on the horizon as seen from his home planet Tatooine. Now imagine three suns in the sky. This is the story for a system that once contained three co-orbiting stars.
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