Virgin Orbit’s LauncherOne rocket deploys seven satellites with third successful mission
Virgin Orbit has managed a third successful mission as the company deployed seven satellites into orbit from its LauncherOne rocket.
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Alien life on Super-Earth can survive longer than we Earthlings due to long-lasting protection from cosmic rays
Life on Super-Earths may have more time to develop and evolve, thanks to their long-lasting magnetic fields protecting them against harmful cosmic rays, according to new research published in Science.
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I’ll just leave this Korean country song about Voyager 1 here.
Damn Kryptonians.
At this point, its internal dynamo will cease spinning and it’ll no longer be able to support a magnetic field. Earth’s magnetic field will disappear in 6.2 billion years or so.
That’s…not what determines how well life is able to survive on Earth, though, given that we expect the growing sun to boil off the oceans before then. So it seems kind of an odd measurement to determine how well the purely hypothetical aliens should be doing on hypothetical life-sustaining superearths. 
Yup. In 6.2 billion years whatever is left of Earth will be well inside the red giant the Sun will have turned into. No idea why they put it that way.
To paraphrase Bob and Doug McKenzie - shot in 3B.
Three beers and it looks good.
European Space Agency whittles wannabe astronauts down from 23,000 to 1,391
The European Space Agency (ESA) has completed stage one of its latest astronaut selection process, with 1,362 astronaut and 29 parastronaut applicants making the cut.
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Emissions…
They better take care.
