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SpaceX just broke its annual launch record — and it’s only July

This afternoon, SpaceX successfully launched its 32nd Falcon 9 mission of 2022, officially breaking the company’s own record for orbital launches conducted in a single year. And since it’s only July, there’s still plenty of year left to push that record even higher. SpaceX has been steadily increasing its launch cadence each year — aside from a dip in 2019. For 2021, the company pulled off…
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NASA, ESA to Discuss Mars Sample Return Mission

. NASA, ESA to Discuss Mars Sample Return Mission The news briefing will present the architecture proposal that is expected to be finalized in September 2022. Editor’s Note: This advisory was updated on July 21 to note that audio…
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Anyone can now share Twitter Spaces clips on iOS and Android

A new feature that lets you extract a short audio clip from a Twitter Space is getting a widespread release on iOS and Android, Twitter has announced. Anyone in a Space is able to make a clip, which then expires after 30 days. Although the feature isn’t currently available to Twitter web users, the platform says support is “on the way.” Clips are designed to make content from Twitter’s…
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Why stars look spiky in images from the James Webb Space Telescope

Stars in the new images from the James Webb Space Telescope look sharper than they did before. And I’m not just talking about the image quality, which is astounding. I’m talking about the fact that many of the bright stars in the images have very distinct Christmas-ornament-looking spikes or, as one of my colleagues put it, “It looks like a J.J. Abrams promo poster, and I love it.” But…
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NASA’s New Mineral Dust Detector Readies for Launch

Designed to analyze airborne dust to see how it might affect climate, the EMIT mission launches to the International Space Station on Thursday, July 14. Each year, strong winds carry more than a billion metric tons – or the weight of 10,000 aircraft carriers – of…
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NASA Reveals Webb Telescope’s First Images of Unseen Universe

. NASA Reveals Webb Telescope’s First Images of Unseen Universe Lee esta nota de prensa en español aquí. The images include some taken by the telescope’s Mid-Infrared Instrument, which the Jet Propulsion Laboratory manages for NASA. The dawn of a new era in astronomy is here as the world gets its first look at the full capabilities of NASA’s James…
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