Spaaaaace (Part 1)

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Good news: There’s a slightly increased chance of asteroid Bennu hitting Earth. Bad news: It’s still really slight

Bennu, already considered the second most dangerous asteroid in the Solar System, has a slightly increased chance of hitting Earth in the coming centuries, NASA said this week.

There is, according to the latest calculations, a 1-in-2,700 chance (0.037 per cent) that the half-kilometre-wide space rock will collide with Earth on September 24, 2182, and a 1-in-1,750 (0.057 per cent) chance of a strike by 2300 – a tiny bit higher than previous estimates.

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I’ll just pencil it in my Filofax.

India’s return to space fails after first locally built cryogenic engine experiences ‘anomaly’

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Mars rover Perseverance failed in its first attempt to collect a sample of rock from the Red Planet because the material crumbled to dust, NASA scientists have said.

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Boeing’s troubled CST-100 Starliner capsule, once expected to ferry astronauts to and from space, is heading back to the workshop after suffering mechanical failures.

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NASA’s relationship with its Russian International Space Station (ISS) partner is under a similar strain to, say, an orbiting outpost that has been given a surprise spin by a malfunctioning module.

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Boeing Starliner Malfunction Potentially Caused by Florida’s Humid Air, Investigators Say

M​o​i​s​t valves.

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NASA’s Defense Of Picking SpaceX For Lunar Landing Reveals Details Of Plan And Throws Real Shade

Includes what may be the sickest burn in NASA/GAO history.

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Quite a guy, that Bezos.

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Cassini data from last decade reveals insights into ‘diffuse’ nature of Saturn’s core

New analysis of data from the Cassini space probe has revealed Saturn possesses a fuzzy or diffuse core without clearly defined boundaries.

Scientists had until now figured that the sixth planet from the Sun has a metallic core surrounded by an envelope composed mostly of hydrogen and helium.

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The Death Ray is a feature.

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The 1970s called and want’s its pie in the sky concepts back.

At least we go the space shuttle out of it.

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The 1970ies?
Isaac Asimov’s Reason from 1941 has “beam solar power down to earth from a space station” as a plot device.

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