Soviet Spacecraft Crash Lands on Earth After a Journey of Half a Century
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Soviet Spacecraft Crash Lands on Earth After a Journey of Half a Century

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines After looping through space for 53 years, a wayward Soviet spacecraft called Kosmos-482 returned to Earth, entering the planet’s atmosphere at 9:24 a.m. Moscow time on Saturday, according to Roscosmos, the state corporation that runs the Russian space program. Designed to land on…

What to Know About Kosmos-482, a Soviet Spacecraft Returning to Earth After 53 Years
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What to Know About Kosmos-482, a Soviet Spacecraft Returning to Earth After 53 Years

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines A robotic Soviet spacecraft has been adrift in space for 53 years. It will return to Earth before the weekend is over. Kosmos-482 launched in March 1972. If all had gone well, it would have landed on the sweltering surface of Venus and…

Voters Approve Incorporation of SpaceX Hub as Starbase, Texas
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Voters Approve Incorporation of SpaceX Hub as Starbase, Texas

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Members of a South Texas community that has served as the hub of Elon Musk’s rocket launch company, SpaceX, voted on Saturday to formally establish a new city called Starbase, fulfilling one of Mr. Musk’s long-held dreams. At the time the polls closed…

Amazon Launches First 27 Project Kuiper Internet Satellites
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Amazon Launches First 27 Project Kuiper Internet Satellites

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines The battle of billionaires in space between Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk is ready to enter a new arena: satellite internet. Amazon, the company that Mr. Bezos started as an online bookseller three decades ago, is now a merchandising behemoth, the owner of…

Blue Origin Flight Will Take 6 Women, Including Gayle King and Katy Perry, to Space
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Blue Origin Flight Will Take 6 Women, Including Gayle King and Katy Perry, to Space

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines The broadcast journalist Gayle King and the singer Katy Perry were set to make a brief trip into space on Monday on a flight operated by Jeff Bezos’ private company, Blue Origin. It would be the first time an all-female crew has been…

Amazon to Launch First Project Kuiper Internet Satellites: What to Know
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Amazon to Launch First Project Kuiper Internet Satellites: What to Know

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines The battle of billionaires in space between Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk has entered a new arena: satellite internet. Amazon, the company that Mr. Bezos started as an online bookseller three decades ago, is now a merchandising behemoth, the owner of the James…

Orbital Rocket Crashes After First Launch From Continental Europe
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Orbital Rocket Crashes After First Launch From Continental Europe

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines The engine shuddered to life around half past noon local time on Sunday, and with a guttural roar, the 92-foot-tall Spectrum rocket lifted slowly away from its launch tower, marking the first liftoff of its kind on the European continent. The rocket, launched…

Gaia to Shut Down After More Than a Decade of Mapping the Milky Way
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Gaia to Shut Down After More Than a Decade of Mapping the Milky Way

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines From ancient star streams to the innards of white dwarfs, the Gaia space telescope has seen it all. On Thursday, mission specialists at the European Space Agency will send Gaia, which is low on fuel, into orbit around the sun, and switch it…

NASA Astronauts Don’t Receive Overtime Pay for Space Mission But Get  a Day
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NASA Astronauts Don’t Receive Overtime Pay for Space Mission But Get $5 a Day

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines If your eight-day work trip was unexpectedly extended by nine months, you might expect to rack up some overtime pay. Not so for Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore, the NASA astronauts who spent 278 extra days on the International Space Station after their…

Astronomers Get ‘More Than a Hint’ That Dark Energy Isn’t What They Thought
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Astronomers Get ‘More Than a Hint’ That Dark Energy Isn’t What They Thought

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines An international team of astronomers on Wednesday unveiled the most compelling evidence to date that dark energy — a mysterious phenomenon pushing our universe to expand ever faster — is not a constant force of nature but one that ebbs and flows through…