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SpaceX Is Days Away From Its STP-2 Mission Falcon Heavy Launch
On Tuesday, the Air Force Space & Missile Systems Center, which is in charge of the STP-2 mission, posted a photo of two dozen satellites placed inside the Falcon Heavy rocket. "This will be our most hard launch ever", founder Elon Musk tweeted . The launch will elevate SpaceX's role with the military for complex national security missions, which have been dominated for years by United Launch... [Full Article...]
Marine Biologists Identify First Narwhal-Beluga Hybrid | Biology, Featured
The researchers say that the skull is now the only known piece of evidence that narwhals and belugas can mate. "Now we provide the data that confirm that yes - it is indeed a hybrid", says Eline Lorenzen , evolutionary biologist and curator at the University of Copenhagen's Natural History Museum of Denmark. [Full Article...]
Two Earth-size planets have been discovered in a neighboring solar system
Its surface temperature is 2,700 degrees Celsius, and its mass is only one-tenth that of the Sun, researchers said. From discovering stars and galaxies to black holes and aliens, scientists have brought along a slew of new space discoveries with them. [Full Article...]
Trans Mountain will boost Alberta economy: economists
But the fact the project has been approved by cabinet does not mean construction will start right away. "First Nations ownership would undercut the environmental movement, because numerous people who oppose the pipeline are likely to support self-determination for First Nations", said a UBC sociology professor, David Tindall. [Full Article...]
Greenland's sea ice is melting as temperature soars to new heights
It may only worsen this year as the ice began melting much before it did in 2012 and three weeks before it starts melting on an average, reported CNN . It has been losing about 7.5 billion tonnes of ice a year, compared to 3.9 billion tonnes a year between 1975 and 2000, according to the study. Along with the worldwide penalties of the ice melt, locals in Greenland are encountering a terrain fu... [Full Article...]
Trump's EPA Rolls Back Coal Restrictions
NASA Rocket Program Delayed, Over Budget, GAO Says
The rocket was initially deliberate to launch in 2017. The $1.8 billion cost overrun was almost double what NASA reported to its inspector general in 2018 for SLS and the Orion capsule - the crew pod built by Lockheed Martin that will launch atop the rocket - the report said. [Full Article...]
A European mission will intercept an unknown comet for the first time
Initially a single composite spacecraft, the Comet Interceptor will split into three separate spacecraft a few weeks before intercepting the comet. The agency's latest mission will involve sending "three spacecraft" to observe a "pristine" comet that may enter our Solar System for the first time. [Full Article...]