~orbitalindex | Issue No. 263 (49)
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Researchers find a way to detect signs of extraterrestrial life in a single grain of ice
test for components of life in even single grains of dust captured near the Jovian moon
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NASA’s Europa Clipper Survives and Thrives in ‘Outer Space’ on Earth - NASA
spacecraft recently completed environmental testing (vibe, shock, acoustics, temp, and vacuum) ahead of its launch in...
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Total Solar Eclipse on 8. April 2024 (Great North American Eclipse )
Next week’s total solar eclipse has a ground track that passes over 43.8 million people
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April's Night Sky Notes: Participate in Eclipse Science
an open call for viewers to participate in data collection
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NASA to Launch Sounding Rockets into Moon’s Shadow During Solar Eclipse
launch three sounding rockets
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To Study Atmosphere, NASA Rockets Will Fly into Oct. Eclipse’s Shadow
These rockets were previously launched—and recovered—during the 2023 annular eclipse.
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Astronomers Unveil Strong Magnetic Fields Spiraling at the Edge of Milky Way’s Central Black Hole
imaged polarized light from plasma near the Milky Way’s Sgr A*.
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'The Nightmare Is Over': NASA Resurrects VERITAS Mission to Venus
resurrected the VERITAS mission to Venus
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Russia’s Soyuz 2.1b rocket carrying remote sensing satellite takes off from Baikonur
launched a remote sensing satellite
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SpaceX launches Eutelsat 36D, lands booster on seventh reuse anniversary
launched a Eutelsat satellite
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SpaceX launches 23 Starlink satellites onboard Falcon 9 flight from Cape Canaveral – Spaceflight Now
batch of Starlink satellites
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https://twitter.com/tobyliiiiiiiiii/status/1773905579804897301
an initial configuration diagram
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JAXA selects Interstellar Technologies as priority launch provider
selected Interstellar Technologies
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ESA, NASA Solar Observatory Discovers Its 5,000th Comet
discovered its 5,000th sungrazing comet
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support us with a monthly membership
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‘Mother of Dragons’ comet visible in the night sky
‘Mother of Dragons’ comet, Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks, is currently visible to observers in the Northern Hemisphere if...
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Comet Pons-Brooks: Should you look for it at the eclipse?
it might be viewable during next week’s eclipse
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The Surprising Success of NASA's First Moon Landings - The Surveyor Program 1966-1968
how NASA’s Surveyor Program landed on the Moon
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Cosmic cleaners: the scientists scouring English cathedral roofs for space dust
Cosmic cleaners: the scientists scouring English cathedral roofs for space dust.
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https://web.archive.org/web/20130923193357/http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/09/130920-deep-impact-ends-comet-mission-nasa-jpl/
speculation that a 32-bit integer counter had overflowed in a Y2K-problem-like way
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The April Fools Paper Review Process – 2024
Astrobites gives peer review notes to 14 April Fools academic papers.
