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Scientists warn of ‘tipping point’ as debris breaks up; legal hurdles as agencies explore nets and probes The amount of junk in space is rising exponentially, with continuous collisions between abandoned equipment, spent rockets and other debris creating ever growing clouds of dangerous fragments, an influential report warned on Thursday. The report, commissioned by NASA, [...]
The Hubble Space Telescope has discovered a tiny fourth moon orbiting the distant icy dwarf planet Pluto, NASA said on Wednesday. The space telescope was searching for rings around the planetary oddball at the edge of our solar system when it came across P4, the temporary name for the newly discovered moon. With an estimated [...]
Korean Air’s first of four A380 aircraft is in final production at the Airbus headquarters in Toulouse, France, and delivery is expected in May. Korean Air will be the first Asian airline to use the aircraft on transpacific routes and the double-decker airplane will be outfitted with between 400 and 450 seats, making it the [...]
NASA is getting hit up for extra launch passes, and mission stickers and pins are flying off the shelf. Another Twittering crowd is descending on the space center. Even science fiction writers want in on the action. Welcome to space shuttle Atlantis’ 32nd and final voyage. When Atlantis blasts off — show time is 2:20 [...]
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