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Monday, February 24, 2025 10:37 AM

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Has SpaceX Done Anything NASA Hasn't?





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Monday, March 3, 2025 5:34 AM

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Moon touchdown for Firefly Aerospace Blue Ghost lander private spacecraft

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/breaking-moon-touchdown-firef
ly-aerospace-34778659

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Thursday, March 20, 2025 10:12 AM

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Dark energy is a mysterious form of energy that makes up ~70% of the "stuff" in our universe

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2471743-dark-energy-isnt-what-we-
thought-and-that-may-transform-the-cosmos
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Friday, March 21, 2025 10:47 AM

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What nine months in space does to the human body

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1jpyl8g772o

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Thursday, March 27, 2025 9:13 AM

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Researchers develop nanomaterial lightsails to propel next-gen spaceships
https://www.aerospacetestinginternational.com/news/researchers-develop
-nanomaterial-lightsails-to-propel-next-gen-spaceships.html


Laser-powered ultra-thin lightsail to enable high-speed space travel
https://interestingengineering.com/space/researchers-develop-scalable-
laser-powered-lightsails



The latest progress of our Hainan crewed lunar launch site - the construction site of the CZ10 moon shot rocket launch tower.
https://x.com/CNSAWatcher/status/1904123759574782013

Here's a proposal for a Chinese mission to study Neptune & Triton, inc. an atmospheric entry probe, launch ~2033 (annual launch windows).
- Ring, atmos & Triton flyby/entry
- 15+ year lifespan, 30 AU ops
- 2,100 kg probe; dual 300W RTGs
- Aerobraking + multi-flyby trajectory
https://x.com/AJ_FI/status/1905041716509294653#m

Cygnus mission to ISS scrapped after finding spacecraft damage
https://spacenews.com/cygnus-mission-to-iss-scrapped-after-finding-spa
cecraft-damage
/

Bizarre Discovery Suggests Galaxies Seem to Spin Clockwise More Often



Webb telescope directly observes exoplanet CO2 for first time
https://phys.org/news/2025-03-webb-telescope-exoplanet.html

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Thursday, April 3, 2025 11:21 AM

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Taebaek to become testbed for lunar mining tech

https://pulse.mk.co.kr/news/english/11279380


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Thursday, April 3, 2025 4:56 PM

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Thats great but it's a long way off.

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Monday, April 7, 2025 6:25 PM

THG


If you're MAGA, science and the stars don't interest you, so this video won't interest you either. Everybody else, enjoy. I was tempted to post it in the Firefly tribute thread because we have maps of the Verse there. There is a commercial around 7 to 9 minutes in.

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Tuesday, April 8, 2025 10:39 AM

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Will Trump fire more NASA and Science people, replace them with 'Yes Men' the Creationsit dudes, Silicon Big Tech Bro, the Bannons...Maga! all the ways guys!!

Sean Carroll an American theoretical physicist, quantum mechanics expert, cosmology, Professor at Johns Hopkins University.



Trump is a deeply stupid person, and the stock market is crashing because the captains of Wall Street and industrial CEOs and so forth who have supported Donald Trump are deeply stupid people."

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Tuesday, April 22, 2025 3:20 AM

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NASA’s Lucy Spacecraft Images Asteroid Donaldjohanson

https://science.nasa.gov/image-article/nasas-lucy-spacecraft-images-as
teroid-donaldjohanson
/

52246 Donaldjohanson from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 8 kilometers (5.0 miles) long and 3.5 kilometers (2.2 miles) discovered on the 2nd day of March 1981.

named after American paleoanthropologist Donald Johanson, the discoverer of the "Lucy" hominid fossil

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Monday, May 12, 2025 7:31 AM

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news says Trump budget cuts continue

Wandering supermassive black hole spotted devouring star | Astronomers capture rogue black hole shredding star 2,600 light-years from galaxy core

https://www.techspot.com/news/107875-wandering-supermassive-black-hole
-spotted-devouring-star.html


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Wednesday, May 14, 2025 12:02 AM

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China catching up

US policy in Space

I’m an exoplanet scientist. Here’s what we lose if we don’t launch Roman.
https://spacenews.com/im-an-exoplanet-scientist-heres-what-we-lose-if-
we-dont-launch-roman
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UMa3/U1: Is This The Smallest Galaxy Ever Discovered, Or Something Else?
https://www.iflscience.com/uma3u1-is-this-the-smallest-galaxy-ever-dis
covered-or-something-else-79188

Early observations suggested it may be the smallest galaxy we've ever seen, and filled with dark matter.


Did astronomers just discover the smallest galaxy in the universe?
https://www.yahoo.com/news/did-astronomers-just-discover-smallest-1030
00451.html




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Thursday, May 15, 2025 3:48 AM

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Rocket Lab


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Thursday, May 15, 2025 7:25 AM

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Monday, May 19, 2025 9:28 AM

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Monday, May 19, 2025 10:39 AM

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The top fell off? Oh shit...

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Wednesday, May 21, 2025 7:20 AM

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The first direct observation of gravitational waves captured the merging of two black holes which emitted 36 septillion yottawatts of power (3.6×104? watts), greater than the combined power of all light radiated by all the stars in the observable universe.

https://x.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1925046392726413436

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Wednesday, May 28, 2025 5:39 PM

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China launches Tianwen-2 mission to sample near Earth asteroid

https://spacenews.com/china-launches-tianwen-2-mission-to-sample-near-
earth-asteroid
/



Mission to Capture Pieces of an Unusual Asteroid

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/science/china-asteroid-tianwen-2.ht
ml




Earth's "quasi-moon" was likely blasted away from the actual moon relatively recently in the solar system's history, a new study suggests.

https://www.space.com/quasi-moon-kamooalewa-giant-lunar-impact

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Thursday, May 29, 2025 6:41 AM

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humanity is going to Mars they say, but the Russians Soviets have been in decay, the ISS is still there, the USA has robots on Mars but so does China and post Apollo US can barely send humans to low orbit anymore.

another Starship explodes

We need your help to save NASA
https://www.planetary.org/advocacy-action-center



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Saturday, May 31, 2025 6:30 AM

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Mysterious surface changes on Jupiter's moon point to something deep below

https://www.newsweek.com/jupiter-moon-europa-webb-ocean-amorphous-wate
r-ice-2078542



China launches spacecraft it says will yield 'groundbreaking discoveries'

https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/china-launches-spacecraft-
return-samples-yield-groundbreaking-discoveries-122300781

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Tuesday, June 3, 2025 6:07 AM

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Thursday, June 5, 2025 5:26 AM

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Marc Garneau, Canada's first astronaut, has died

https://www.ctvnews.ca/montreal/article/marc-garneau-dead-at-76/

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Monday, June 9, 2025 4:01 AM

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APOD?

China's Tiangong space station transiting Jupiter

https://x.com/AJ_FI/status/1931771306816811321


NASA pulls the plug on Europa lander, but scientists propose a Plan B: Enceladus

https://gizmodo.com/nasa-pulls-the-plug-on-europa-lander-but-scientist
s-propose-a-plan-b-2000611741



How the U.S. became highly reliant on Elon Musk for access to space

https://www.npr.org/2025/06/07/nx-s1-5425266/spacex-musk-trump-starlin
k-starship

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Tuesday, June 10, 2025 4:02 AM

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White House Asked Joint Chiefs Chairman for Candidates to Lead NASA, Worrying Experts

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2025/06/06/white-house-asked-joint
-chiefs-chairman-candidates-lead-nasa-worrying-experts.html



Monster black hole M87 is spinning at 80% of the cosmic speed limit — and pulling in matter even faster

https://www.universetoday.com/articles/new-measurements-for-m87s-super
massive-black-hole-spin-and-accretion-rate




Japan crashing

HAKUTO-R M2 approach and sudden loss of signal observed with our 20m dish

https://xcancel.com/amsatdl/status/1930729675732427209

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