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SpaceX Falcon 9 Rocket Exploded When Liquid Oxygen Froze, CEO Elon Musk Says
At a Glance SpaceX said a September rocket explosion was the result of liquid oxygen cooling to a level that caused it to freeze and explode.The company said it is moving forward with plans for rocket launches as soon as mid-December. After weeks of investigating what caused a SpaceX rocket to explode on the launch pad, the company's CEO said he believes the issue has been located. Elon Musk said it was a problem with the supercooled liquid oxygen ,...
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Underground Ocean May Lie Beneath Pluto's Frozen Surface
A new study supports the theory that Pluto may have an underground ocean. It has long been suspected the dwarf planet has a deep sea beneath its frozen surface. Observations and studies from a flight past Pluto in 2015 by NASA's New Horizons and published in this week's journal Nature focus on a 600-mile basin known as Sputnik Planitia in the left lobe of Pluto's heart-shaped region. Evidence suggests tidal forces with jumbo moon Charon may have prompted Pluto to...
Naked Black Hole Streaking Through Space Stuns Scientists
At a Glance Scientists spotted a "naked" supermassive black hole streaking away from a galaxy. They say they've never seen anything like it. Seeing somebody naked and running through your neighborhood at top speed would no doubt catch your attention. Same thing with black holes and astronomers. According to a release from the National Radio Astronomy Observatory, astronomers spotted the supermassive black hole, dubbed B3 1715+425 alongside remnants of . "We were looking for orbiting pairs of supermassive black holes,...
Revolutionary GOES-R Weather Satellite Launches in Florida
At a Glance The nation's most advanced weather satellite, GOES-R, launched Saturday at sunset. It will produce the sharpest and fastest images yet of the nation's weather events. Eventually it will become part of $11 billion system that will ultimately include four satellites Saturday night, NASA launched the nation’s most advanced weather satellite ever. The $1 billion Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-R Series (GOES-R) satellite was created for the purpose of churning out the sharpest and fastest pictures yet of hurricanes,...
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