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SpaceX launches most powerful rocket in history in explosive debut – like many first liftoffs, Starship's test was a successful failure

On April 20, 2023, a new SpaceX rocket called Starship exploded over the Gulf of Mexico three minutes into its first flight ever. SpaceX is calling the test launch a success, despite the fiery end result. As a space policy expert, I agree that the “rapid unscheduled disassembly” – the…

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Decades-old NASA satellite CRASHES down to Earth and lands in Sahara Desert

The Reuven Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager, known as Rhessi for short, is set to plummet back to the planet’s surface after 21 years in space

Daily Mirror

Old NASA satellite plunges to Earth over Sahara Desert

An old NASA satellite that studied the sun has plunged back to Earth

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SpaceX Starship explodes during first test flight of rocket due to fly astronauts to Moon

The US space agency, NASA, chose the Starship spacecraft to bring astronauts to the Moon in 2025 on a mission known as Artemis III

Irish Mirror

See Venus and the moon dance with the 'Seven Sisters' during the Lyrid meteor shower Saturday

The crescent moon, Venus and the Pleiades will reach conjunction during the peak of the Lyrid meteor shower this Saturday. Here's how to watch the stunning show.

LiveScience

Massive Starship rocket explodes after launch; SpaceX calls it a ‘win’

On its first test flight Thursday morning, SpaceX's massive, uncrewed Starship rocket roared off the launch pad, soared into the south Texas sky for a few minutes, but ultimately exploded into a trail of smoke.

Los Angeles Times

SpaceX giant rocket explodes minutes after launch from Texas

The flight plan had called for the booster to peel away from the spacecraft minutes after liftoff, but that didn’t happen.

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SpaceX's 1st Starship launches on epic test flight, explodes in 'rapid unscheduled disassembly'

SpaceX launched its gigantic Starship rocket toward space for the first time ever today (April 20), a milestone that could presage humanity's expansion out into the solar system.

Space

Elon Musk’s SpaceX Starship rocket blows up minutes after launch

Largest and most powerful rocket ever built blasts off on test flight that is hoped to be step on human journey to Mars

The Guardian - UK

Solar activity may peak 1 year earlier than thought. Here is what it means for us

The sun may reach the peak of its current solar cycle in 2024, one year ahead of official predictions, new research reveals. But solar mayhem may still occur in the next five years.

Space

SpaceX’s Starship rocket explodes after launch

The Starship is the most powerful rocket ever built and is designed to send astronauts to the moon, Mars or beyond.

Al Jazeera

SpaceX Starship explodes during flight test

BOCA CHICA, Texas: SpaceX on Thursday launched its next-generation Starship cruise vehicle atop the most powerful rocket ever built, in a highly anticipated, uncrewed test flight.

Bangkok Post

SpaceX's Starship soars, then explodes in major test flight

SpaceX hopes Starship will one day fly people and cargo to deep space destinations like the Moon and even Mars.

Axios

SpaceX launch of Starship a success, despite explosion minutes after takeoff

SpaceX's Starship launched on the first of many test flights it will undergo before it is ready to ferry astronauts to the moon.

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SpaceX’s Starship, world’s biggest rocket, explodes during test flight

SpaceX’s giant new rocket blasted off on its first test flight Thursday but exploded minutes after rising from the launch pad and crashed into the Gulf of Mexico.

LiveScience

NASA satellite crash not source of mysterious flash of light above Ukraine capital, agency claims

A blinding flash of light set off air raid alerts across Ukraine’s capital city. Officials at first thought it was a falling NASA satellite, but the space agency has said it isn’t.

Inverse

Ariel Ekblaw Wants To Go to Space So We Can Save Earth

The 30-year-old founder of MIT’s Space Exploration Initiative is engineering small wonders with a big goal: making sure Earth remains our home.

Space

NASA's LUCY mission snaps its asteroid targets for the 1st time

NASA's LUCY asteroid-hopping mission has for the first time spotted four of its asteroid targets which it will visit from 2027 onwards and send those images back to Earth.

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Airbus unveils futuristic space station concept (photos)

The European aerospace giant Airbus has unveiled a new concept space habitat that will be more spacious and comfortable than existing space stations.

Daily Mirror

Mystery surrounds bright flash in Kyiv sky after NASA denies it is satellite

Kyiv's military adviser Sergiy Popko said a bright flash was seen over the Ukrainian capital at around 10pm, but it has not yet been established what caused the glow

Inverse

NASA's Next Moon Mission Has A Technological Feat 50 Years in the Making

More than half a century later, NASA is gearing up to send humans to the lunar environment again.

Al Jazeera

Confusion reigns over flash in skies above Kyiv

The local administration rules out the possibility of a Russian attack as Ukrainians joke of an alien invasion.

Evening Standard

Ukraine: Confusion over flash seen above Kyiv as Nasa denies involvement

Nasa has denied that a flash which appeared over Kyiv during the night was a falling satellite following a wave of speculation.

Asharq Al-Awsat

‘Devastating' Melt of Greenland, Antarctic Ice Sheets Found

The Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets are now losing more than three times as much ice a year as they were 30 years ago, according to a new comprehensive international study. Using 50 different satellite estimates, researchers found that Greenland’s melt has gone into hyperdrive in the last few years.

WEKU

Viewers in parts of Australia and Indonesia saw this rare hybrid solar eclipse

Under a cloudless sky, about 20,000 eclipse chasers watched a rare solar eclipse plunge part of Australia's northwest coast into brief midday darkness Thursday with an accompanying temperature drop.

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