SpaceX, Starlink and low Earth orbit
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The SpaceX rocket lifted off at 8:36 p.m. from its launchpad at the California base and reached low Earth orbit about 8½ minutes later.
Chinese scientists use ‘groundbreaking’ method to push data through turbulent skies from Space to Earth in less than five seconds.
Amazon has contracted with ULA to launch 46 Kuiper flights, which will deploy the majority of the former’s satellite broadband constellation.
Gaia-4b is the most massive planet known to orbit a low-mass star. Also, see an animation for Gaia-5b, a brown dwarf orbiting a low-mass star. They were detected by the European Space Agency’s Gaia spacecraft.
Webb has captured a frigid exoplanet in a wildly tilted orbit, revealing a system shaped by past planetary violence and intriguing atmospheric behavior.
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Space.com on MSNRocket Lab launches Japanese Earth-observing radar satellite to orbitRocket Lab launched an Earth-observing radar satellite to orbit for the Japanese company iQPS on Wednesday morning (June 11). An Electron rocket topped with the QPS-SAR-11 spacecraft lifted off from Rocket Lab 's New Zealand site on Wednesday at 11:31 a.m. EDT (1531 GMT; 3:31 a.m. on June 12 local New Zealand time).
A constellation of companies and groups paid President Trump’s supporters before they took jobs in his White House, according to new disclosure statements.
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Interesting Engineering on MSNFirst artificial eclipse in orbit delivers unprecedented glimpse of Sun’s coronaThe European Space Agency’s Proba-3 mission has released its first set of solar corona images, offering a rare glimpse into one of the Sun’s most mysterious layers that holds