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Update – NASA's CAPSTONE spacecraft is on its way to the moon

As part of its Artemis programme to return humans to the moon, NASA’s CAPSTONE spacecraft to map the orbit of the planned Lunar Gateway space station has taken off from New Zealand

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Mandatory Credit: Photo by SpaceX/ZUMA Wire/Shutterstock (10664346i) A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company's Crew Dragon spacecraft is launched on NASA's SpaceX Demo-2 mission to the International Space Station with NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley onboard. NASA's SpaceX Demo-2 mission is the first launch with astronauts of the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket to the International Space Station as part of the agency's Commercial Crew Program. SpaceX Demo-2 Historic Manned Launch, Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S. - 30 May 2020

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Emissions from rocket launches could affect Earth's weather systems

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Sentinel-3, one of the satellites used by the Copernicus programme

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UK may go it alone in orbit after Brexit shutout from EU space plans

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James Webb Space Telescope was hit by a tiny space rock – but it’s OK

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How lessons learned from space exploration could feed the world

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The rise of SpinLaunch, the company planning to hurl things into space

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https://www.jma.go.jp/jma/jma-eng/satellite/index.html Artist?s impression of Himawari-8 and Himawari-9

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Betelgeuse star dimming puzzle solved by chance with weather satellite

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$Mare Crisium is a large, dark, basaltic plain on the Moon that filled an ancient asteroid impact. Basaltic plains on the Moon were created by early volcanic eruptions. Mare Crisium was flooded with basaltic lava, a dark, runny lava commonly found on Earth. Basaltic plains on the Moon are also known as lunar maria, because of a mistaken belief by early astronomers that these dark areas were oceans ? ?maria? is the Latin word for ?seas.? We now know these spots to be plains of basalt created by early volcanic eruptions, but the nomenclature of ?maria? (plural) or ?mare? (singular) remains. The basalts in Mare Crisium range in age from 2.5 to 3.3 billion years old! These dates come from measuring the radioactive isotope signatures of samples returned from Mare Crisium by the Soviet Luna 24 mission. Along the rim of Mare Crisium lies an outer boundary of wrinkle ridges. Wrinkle ridges are commonly found in places where the surface has contracted. As the surface is compressed, it bends and fractures, and can form complicated patterns of faults and folds.$

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Bricks made of dust from the moon and Mars could make space buildings

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Send thousands of people to orbit, says space tourist Jared Isaacman

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Planet-sized telescopes could be possible using quantum technique

Huge networks of interconnected telescopes may run into image-sharpening problems that classical physics can't handle. Accounting for the quantum properties of starlight could allow astronomers to get past these constraints

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