I’ve seen this anime:
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Don’t forget understaffed mission, because that “there can be only one” attitude towards selecting specialists and setting crew size should work out just great! It’s not like there’s a risk of people getting sick, becoming incapacitated, or dying, right? 
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Not the Southern Rail of the stars: Rocket Lab plans frequent, regular trips to Venus from 2023
Good news: Euro sat spots liquid pools on Mars. Bad news: Under ice, saltier than someone who put last penny into a failed crypto biz
Video Pools of salty liquid surround a larger lake of water hidden beneath a thick crust of ice below the Martian south pole. That’s according to findings published in Nature Astronomy on Monday.
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ESA says Cheops – its Characterising Exoplanet Satellite that was launched last year – has made its first discovery out in space: an ultra-hot Jupiter-like world, dubbed WASP-189b, which has a surface temperature of 3,127 degrees Celsius. It’s so hot, iron would instantly melt and evaporate away on the surface, and it is circling a particularly fiery sun.
Square Kilometre Array signs off on construction plans – UK last holdout before building phase begins
The Prospectus [PDF from Dropbox] explains that the project will build over 130,000 antennae in Australia, plus another 133 in South Africa, eventually totaling a square kilometer of electromagnetic-radiation-detecting apparatus. By way of contrast, the world’s largest radio telescope is the Arecibo observatory at 73,000m2. And it is out of commission due to a physical layer problem – a cable broke and some panels collapsed.
Not to diss Arecibo, but:
Then again, Arecibo is the the largest radiotelescope ever to star in a James Bond film.
“Britain already has the World’s second largest radio telescope. And next year, we will have the World’s third and fourth largest radio telescope. And all with the same equipment!”
Alan Bennett as Minister for Something or Other, Beyond the Fringe
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Another meteorite raced down the sky of the south of Brazil.
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ISS? More like HISS, am I right? Space station air leakage narrowed down to Russia’s Zvezda module
IBM unleashes AI on two space problems: How to map all the junk in Earth’s orbit, and how to put more up there
IBM has published two open-source artificial intelligence projects it hopes will help astronomers better deal with space junk – and encourage startups to circle Earth with swarms of CubeSats.
The Space Situational Awareness (SSA) project looks at anthropogenic space objects (ASOs), the fancy term for stuff humans have lobbed into orbit. IBM teamed up with Moriba Jah, an associate professor of aerospace engineering at the University of Texas, to develop two models to predict the orbits of ASOs.
Talk about working smarter: NASA scientists searching for craters on Mars train AI software to do the job for them
NASA says its new crater-hunting AI system has found its first evidence of a previously unseen meteorite strike on Mars, needing just five seconds to clock the potential crash site compared to 40 minutes a human would normally take.
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Since the EU won’t share all its toys, UK Space Agency fires up fund to support more international collaboration
The UK Space Agency has opened a new lunch fund designed to foster “international space collaborations.”
Some £5m of taxpayers’ cash is available for the project, which the agency hopes will support UK outfits seeking to buddy up with some of the world’s major space players, such as the US, Japan, and France.
The agency pointed to space robotics, debris, and disaster relief as potential areas for linking arms with others, and has offered the fund to both business and academia. Interested parties have until 29 October to make an application.
Casting a teleport spell is out of the question? Next Falcon-powered 'naut trip to space station set for Halloween
The latest batch of astronauts to fly to the International Space Station atop a SpaceX Falcon rocket will have to wait a little longer – after NASA pushed back the launch to October 31.
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Looking for a new hobby to kill the COVID-19 blues? Join NASA’s Planet Patrol to hunt for alien worlds
Video If you’re tired of sitting in your PJs in front of the computer screen all day indoors, and need a new purpose to get you through the COVID-19 virus pandemic, consider helping NASA look for previously unseen exoplanets.
Doesn’t say whether you get to name planets you find.
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Pack your bags! Astroboffins spot 24 ‘superhabitable’ exoplanets better than Earth at supporting complex life
Astrobiologists have found 24 exoplanets that, compared to Earth, may have environments better suited to complex life like that found on our world.
A team led by Dirk Schulze-Makuch, a professor at the planetary habitability and astrobiology at the Technical University Berlin, devised a checklist of requirements that an alien world must meet in order to be classed as a “superhabitable” planet, capable of supporting complex, oxygen-based lifeforms as seen here on Earth. After going through the records on 4,000 exoplanets, the team identified 24 candidates that tick the boxes, though bear in mind all of them are at least 100 light years away.
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Even with all these tips I would not be able to take these pictures.
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