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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US-European Satellite Will Make World’s First Global Freshwater Survey
The Surface Water and Ocean Topography mission will make measurements of over 95% of Earth’s lakes, rivers, and reservoirs.
Water is life, but for all its…
NASA, ESA to Discuss Mars Sample Return Mission
July 22, 2022
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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…
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…
Samsung will give you up to $200 credit for placing a Galaxy Z Fold 4 or Z Flip 4 reservation
July 20, 2022
Another Samsung Unpacked virtual event is right around the corner, now confirmed to take place on August 10th at 9AM ET / 6AM PT, and along with it are some incentives for the early, early birds. Samsung is offering customers in the US the chance to put in free…
NASA is delaying the flight of its VIPER rover — a specialized bot designed to hunt for water on the surface of the Moon. Originally set to embark on its lunar expedition in November of 2023, VIPER is now targeting a launch in November of 2024 in order to allow for testing…
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…
Among the science experiments being delivered, the JPL-developed EMIT instrument will help scientists determine how airborne mineral dust affects our planet.
A SpaceX Dragon resupply spacecraft carrying more than 5,800 pounds of science experiments, crew supplies, and…
NASA’s New Mineral Dust Detector Readies for Launch
July 14, 2022
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
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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…
