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SpaceX has cleared the last major hurdle before Starship's most ambitious test flight yet. Booster 21 — the Super Heavy first stage for Flight 14 — completed a full-duration static fire at Starbase's Pad 2 on Saturday, August 30, with Ship 41 having already finished its own static fire campaign at the separate Massey's Test Site days earlier.
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After a full week of build-up, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope actually flew. Liftoff came Sunday, August 30 at 7:26am Eastern — right on the primary window, no scrubs, no holds — on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy from Kennedy Space Center's storied Launch Complex 39A.
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Sunday August 30, NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope launches on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy from Kennedy Space Center's Launch Complex 39A. The primary window opens at 7:26am Eastern (11:26 UTC — 9:26pm Sunday night for anyone in Sydney), with a backup window the following morning if needed.
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Today's episode centres on a genuinely new kind of space controversy — plus a Starship homecoming, a doomed exoplanet, and the untold budget fight behind Sunday's biggest launch. Here's the full rundown, with links to everything referenced.
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Physicists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, led by Marius Millot, have resolved a two-decade disagreement over exactly what temperature diamond melts at under extreme pressure — a question that matters far beyond curiosity, because it turns out to sit at the intersection of planetary science and fusion energy research.
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Astronomers using the ALMA array in Chile, led by Bill Dent of the European Southern Observatory, have released the most detailed picture yet of the actual surface of Betelgeuse — the red supergiant marking Orion's shoulder, roughly 600 light-years away.
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The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is now fully encapsulated inside the fairing of the SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket that will carry it to orbit, following encapsulation at Kennedy Space Center's Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility on August 21. Liftoff is targeted for no earlier than 7:26 a.m. Eastern time this Sunday, August 30.
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Chang'e-7's launch window opened today, August 24, and ran through the 31st — but a tropical system, reported variously as Tropical Depression or Tropical Storm Narra, formed over the Gulf of Tonkin and threatened the Wenchang launch site on Hainan Island.
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The Weekend Wrap: Chang'e-7's hopping robot heads for the lunar south pole in search of water ice, plus a round-up of the week's biggest hardware stories
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Two weeks after a spent SpaceX Falcon 9 upper stage struck the Moon, NASA and an international team of partners have pinpointed the exact impact site and released the first close-up images ....
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Yesterday, Chinese commercial launch company LandSpace became the first private Chinese company ever to land an orbital-class rocket booster — a genuine milestone for the country's growing commercial space sector, and a story we've been watching build since an earlier attempt fell short last December.
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A historic spacewalk runs into antenna trouble, a trillion-mile river of gas explains tilted planets, an update on Starship's Ship 40, and SpaceX quietly nears 11,000 satellites
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