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[Link] China and the US Are Racing to Go Nuclear in Space
Read: 23/11/2022 www.vice.com
The outpost is developed in conjunction with Russia and is expected to be built by 2028 on the lunar south pole, which has patches of sunny spots as well as permanently shadowed craters. The U.S.
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[Link] An “incident” with the James Webb Space Telescope has occurred
Read: 25/11/2021 arstechnica.com
A short update on the projected launch date of the $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope came out of NASA on Monday, and it wasn't exactly a heart-warming missive.
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[Link] Russian Anti-Satellite Weapon Test Draws Widespread Condemnation
Read: 17/11/2021 hackaday.com
On the morning of November 15, a Russian missile destroyed a satellite in orbit above Earth.
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[Link] NASA unveils asteroid-fighting spacecraft as it prepares for Armageddon-style mission test
Read: 7/11/2021 www.abc.net.au
The spacecraft will be launched later this month as part of the space agency's first planetary defence test mission called the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART). It will direct itself at an asteroid while traveling at a speed of about 24,000 kilometres per hour.
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[Link] Jeff Bezos Reveals Plans to Build a Space Station Called 'Orbital Reef'
Read: 25/10/2021 www.vice.com
Jeff Bezos has turned his wealth from Amazon into a play for space. He's already gone to the edge of space in one of his own Blue Origin rockets and broken the record for sending the oldest person ever into space, twice.
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[Link] China Denies Secretly Testing a Missile That Could Drop Nukes at Any Point in the World
Read: 18/10/2021 www.vice.com
On July 19, China announced its 77th launch of the Long March 2C rocket, carrying three satellite sensors to orbit. The next month, the same rocket was used to put three telecommunications satellites in space. What happened next confounded observers. China said the second launch, on Aug.
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