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‘It’s really happening’: tears of joy as space mission nears Cornwall launch

Touchdown in Newquay of 747 converted to carry satellite-propelling rocket silences even the most hardened doubters

The Guardian - UK

Japan space rocket commanded to self-destruct after launch

The failure of the Epsilon-6 rocket launch is Japan’s first in nearly 20 years.

Al Jazeera

Japan space agency rocket carrying 8 satellites fails

The Japanese space agency says a rocket carrying eight satellites failed just after liftoff and had to be aborted by a self-destruction command, in the country’s first failed rocket launch in nearly 20 years

The Independent UK

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NASA Kicked Asteroid Off Course in Test to Save Earth

NASA on Tuesday celebrated exceeding expectations during a mission to deflect a distant asteroid, in a sci-fi like test of humanity's ability to stop an incoming cosmic object from devastating life on Earth. The fridge-sized Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) impactor deliberately smashed into the moonlet asteroid Dimorphos on September…

Asharq Al-Awsat

SpaceX spacecraft fragments to be collected from NSW Snowy Mountains farms to be stored, sent overseas

The Australian Space Agency has begun to collect pieces of spacecraft fragments from the NSW Snowy Mountains, some of which will be sent to the US.

ABC News

NASA confirms humans changed the motion of a celestial object for the first time

NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test mission, better known as DART, successfully shifted the orbit of an asteroid known as Dimorphos — a huge victory for local scientists and engineers whose work was involved in the mission, NASA officials announced Tuesday.

Tribune News Service

Japan's Epsilon rocket failed after launch - Kyodo

The Japanese space agency's Epsilon rocket failed after it was launched on Wednesday, Kyodo News and other domestic media reported.

Reuters

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NASA successfully shifted an asteroid's orbit – DART spacecraft crashed into and moved Dimorphos

NASA recently crashed a spacecraft into an asteroid in an attempt to push the rocky traveler off its trajectory. The Double Asteroid Redirection Test – or DART – was meant to test one potential strategy for preventing an asteroid from colliding with Earth. The collision occurred on Sept. 27, 2022,…

The Conversation

Nasa successfully diverts asteroid in first Earth defence test

Mission shows Nasa 'serious as a defender of this planet'

Wales Online

NASA asteroid crash a smashing success

The mission sets a precedent as to how humanity might deflect a deadly Earth-bound asteroid in the future

Salon

NASA confirms DART asteroid defense mission was a success in planetary first

NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) successfully moved an asteroid, space agency officials confirmed on Tuesday, October 11.

Inverse

NASA says DART spacecraft successfully alters asteroid’s path

Taking a page out of science fiction and Hollywood scripts, US space agency aims to prevent collision with Earth.

Al Jazeera

Youngster from Kochi captures classic images of Andromeda using basic equipment

KOCHI

The Hindu

Nasa says its Dart spacecraft changed asteroid's path in 'watershed moment for humanity'

Nasa's DART spacecraft achieved its primary goal in changing the direction of an asteroid through sheer kinetic force, as part of a $330 million mission in September

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France 24

NASA strike test successfully altered asteroid's trajectory

A spacecraft that plowed into a small, harmless asteroid millions of miles away succeeded in shifting its orbit, NASA said Tuesday in announcing the results of its save-the-world test.

Evening Standard

‘Watershed moment for humanity’: Nasa hails success of asteroid mission that was test to save planet

Nasa says its spacecraft managed to nudge the asteroid out of its natural orbit

Daily Record

Rare solar eclipse this month will look like 'someone has taken a bite out of the Sun'

It will appear as if a chunk is missing from the Sun during the morning of October 25.

Reuters

Asteroid's path altered in NASA's first test of planetary defense system

The spacecraft NASA deliberately crashed into an asteroid last month succeeded in nudging the rocky moonlet from its natural path into a faster orbit, marking the first time humanity has altered the motion of a celestial body, the U.S. space agency announced on Tuesday.

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The Independent UK

Nasa’s Dart mission changed path of asteroid: ‘A defender of the planet’

Nasa Administrator Bill Nelson said the test proved the tactic could be used to save the planet from an asteroid threat

The Independent UK

Smashing success: NASA asteroid strike results in big nudge

NASA says a spacecraft that plowed into a small, harmless asteroid millions of miles away last month succeeded in shifting its orbit

Wales Online

First satellite prepared for Space Cornwall rocket launch that's 'meteoric' for the UK

Amber-1 is being prepared to be loaded into the LauncherOne rocket system that will send it into orbit.

Inverse

Whoosh! An airplane-sized asteroid will swoop near Earth this week

Object 2020 TO2 will come within 400,000 miles of Earth at blazing-fast speeds, but worry not.

Zenger

The Hunter’s Moon, The 1st Full Moon Of Fall, Will Rise This Weekend

Two weeks have passed since the official start of autumn, and one of the first astronomical events of the new season is about to take place over the weekend

Benzinga

First He Ruined Pluto Being A Planet, Now Neil deGrasse Tyson Wants To Ruin 2022's Biggest Movie

If you were born before the year 2006, you might remember learning about the nine planets in school. Fast forward to Aug. 24, 2006, and there were only eight planets. An astrophysicist that helped declassify a planet is now trying to ruin the biggest movie of 2022 and its impossible…

Zenger

Packed Space Station Welcomes History-Making Astronaut

Astronaut Nicole Mann made history as she blasted off into space to begin an extended stay on the International Space Station.

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