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SpaceX launches Turksat 5A communications satellite for Turkey, lands rocket

A 230-ft-tall (70 m) Falcon 9 rocket blasted off from Space Launch Complex 40 here at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at 9:15 p.m. EST (0215 GMT on Jan. 8), about 45 minutes into a planned four-hour window, carrying the Turksat 5A satellite into space.

SpaceX will launch the Turksat 5A satellite for Turkey tonight. Here's how to watch live.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — SpaceX is set to launch a Turkish communications satellite into orbit on Thursday evening (Jan. 7), and you can watch the action online. A Falcon 9 rocket carrying the Turksat 5A satellite is scheduled to lift off from Space Launch ...

NASA will fire up its SLS moon megarocket in final 'green run' test this month

Despite a new valve issue, NASA says it's ready to proceed with the next stage of testing the megarocket that will send the uncrewed Artemis 1 mission to the moon in November. Initially, the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket performed well during the series ...

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Falcon 9 launch timeline with Turksat 5A

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SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket is set for liftoff from Cape Canaveral on Thursday, heading due east over the Atlantic Ocean to deliver the Turkish Turksat 5A communications satellite into orbit around 33 minutes later. The 229- ...

7 things to know about the NASA rover about to land on Mars

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Is the Schrödinger Equation True?

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I take inspiration where I can get it. My girlfriend recently alerted me to a viral video in which a teenage girl complains about mathematics. "I was just doing my makeup for work," Gracie Cunningham says while dabbing makeup on her face, "and I just wanted ...

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New NASA space telescope will explore the Big Bang

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(CNN) A new space telescope will help scientists look back in time at the origin of our universe and the galaxies and planetary systems that have populated it ever since. The mission will further our understanding of how the universe rapidly expanded right ...

Largest canyon in the solar system revealed in stunning new images

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Space Station, Cygnus test technology for 5G communications, other benefits

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Identical twins don't share 100% of their DNA

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Identical twins form from the same egg and get the same genetic material from their parents — but that doesn't mean they're genetically identical by the time they're born. That's because so-called identical twins pick up genetic mutations in the womb, as their ...