Satellite ready to leave Europe before its launch in April Galileo tribute plaque unveiled in Airbus’ cleanroom and mounted on the spacecraft ESA’s mission will study Jupiter’s three largest icy moons and the Jovian system’s magnetic fields Toulouse, January 20. The Airbus-built JUICE (JUpiter ICy moons Explorer mission) spacecraft will shortly leave Toulouse, France, for …

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SpaceX launched the sixth GPS III satellite for the U.S. Space Force on a Falcon 9 mission early Wednesday morning. The Lockheed Martin [LMT]-built satellite is part of the military’s work to modernize the fleet of GPS satellites. GPS III SV06 provides…

Watch a rare launch of SpaceX’s massive Falcon Heavy rocket livestreamed on SpaceX’s YouTube channel.

“Nearly five years have passed since the massive Falcon Heavy rocket made its successful debut launch in February 2018,” writes Ars Technica.

“Si…

Becky Ferreira writes via Motherboard: You may not realize it in your day-to-day life, but we are all enveloped by a giant “superbubble” that was blown into space by the explosive deaths of a dozen-odd stars. Known as the Local Bubble, this structure e…