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Santa Monica High Wins Ocean Sciences Bowl Hosted by NASA’s JPL

February 8, 2022
. Santa Monica High Wins Ocean Sciences Bowl Hosted by NASA’s JPL Now on a seven-year winning streak, the team heads to the national championship. Santa Monica High School came out on top in the regional Ocean Sciences Bowl tournament, hosted virtually Feb. 5 by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California. The school has won the academic…
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The Galaxy S22 will use plastic from recycled fishing nets

February 7, 2022
The Galaxy S22 has leaked extensively, but there’s only so much you can tell from renders. For example, it turns out that Samsung has created a “new material” to use in the product — one made from the plastic in discarded fishing nets. Samsung says it’ll soon…
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Tonga Eruption Sent Ripples Through Earth’s Ionosphere

February 5, 2022
. Tonga Eruption Sent Ripples Through Earth’s Ionosphere Your browser cannot play the provided video file(s). NASA detected the shockwave from the underwater eruption high up in the atmosphere. The powerful underwater volcanic eruption that blanketed the island nation of Tonga with ash and sent tsunami waves across the world also caused ripples in…
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Elon Musk’s first Starship update in two years is next week

February 4, 2022
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk announced plans to give an update on his company’s next-generation Starship rocket next Thursday evening. The presentation will come more than two years after Musk’s last update on the vehicle in 2019. Starship is the massive new deep-space rocket…
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SpaceX planning to launch up to 52 missions in 2022

January 28, 2022
Commercial space company SpaceX plans to launch a whopping 52 flights in 2022, a NASA safety panel revealed today during a meeting. If successful, it would be the most launches the company has ever conducted in a single year, with its previous record last year at 31 launches. The impressive figure was given during a virtual meeting of NASA’s Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel, or ASAP, which gives…
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Caltech Names Laurie Leshin Director of JPL

January 28, 2022
. Caltech Names Laurie Leshin Director of JPL The distinguished geochemist and space scientist brings more than 20 years of leadership experience in academic and government service to JPL. Laurie Leshin, president of Worcester…
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NASA Greenland Mission Completes Six Years of Mapping Unknown Terrain

January 27, 2022
. NASA Greenland Mission Completes Six Years of Mapping Unknown Terrain To learn how ocean water is melting glaciers, NASA’s Oceans Melting Greenland mission extensively surveyed the coastline of the world’s largest island. The most important thing to remember about NASA’s Oceans Melting Greenland mission, which ended Dec. 31, 2021, may be its name: OMG proved…
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