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	Science Daily update ⋅ March 5, 2022
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	Space.com James Webb Space Telescope instrument gets ready to probe the universe's chemistry Space.com During the observatory's commissioning and ongoing mirror alignment, Webb's Near-Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec) team successfully finished initial check-out and characterization of three mechanisms that are key for the instrument to do its work. Flag as irrelevant
	Space.com James Webb Space Telescope will study icy objects in the mysterious 'graveyard of the solar system' Space.com These bodies, known as Kuiper Belt objects or trans-Neptunian objects, show remarkable diversity in terms of color, shape, size, groupings (clusters, pairs, etc.), and geological and atmospheric activity. Flag as irrelevant
	The Verge After mistaken identity and confusion, a piece of space junk slams into the Moon The Verge After years of zooming through deep space, a presumed leftover piece of a Chinese rocket slammed into the Moon today, just as space tracking experts expected it would. At least, it should have hit the Moon around 7:30AM ET this morning, as long as the ... Flag as irrelevant
	CNN Space junk set to crash into the far side of the moon CNN He was first to spot the trajectory of the rocket booster. The only way to know exactly where the rocket hits is through images. NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter will not be in a position to observe the impact as it happens, the agency said. Flag as irrelevant
	Space.com Rogue rocket body imaged weeks before its moon impact (photo) Space.com A Virtual Telescope Project image shows a rogue rocket stage on the road to oblivion, nearly a month before it smashed into the the moon on Friday (March 4). The image was taken Feb. 8 during the stage's last close flyby of Earth, when it was visible ... Flag as irrelevant
	Space.com Space Force plans to send a patrol probe out past the moon Space.com In a new video, the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) revealed the U.S. military's big plans for its future work in space. These plans, the video showed, include extending space awareness capabilities beyond geostationary orbit with the help of a ... Flag as irrelevant
	Livescience.com 3-ton rocket almost certainly just smashed into the moon at 5771 mph Livescience.com The discarded rocket stage was projected to land at Hertzsprung crater on the moon's far side at 7:25 a.m. EST (1225 GMT), with the energy from the collision punching out a crater which scientists believe could be up to 66 feet (20 meters) wide. The impact ... Flag as irrelevant
	CNET A Dead Rocket Crashed Into the Moon Today, and Scientists Are Thrilled CNET A natural impact on the moon created this crater in 2013. It's about to get another. NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center/Arizona State University. A hunk of space junk came to an explosive end on Friday when it collided with the moon, and astronomers are ... Flag as irrelevant
	Phys.Org Scientists think an old rocket just hit the Moon going 5800 mph Phys.Org Add one more crater to the long list of pockmarks on the lunar surface. According to orbital calculations, a rocket hurtling through space for years crashed into the Moon on Friday, but the strike wasn't directly observed, and there might be a wait for ... Flag as irrelevant
	The Weather Channel Elon Musk's SpaceX Deploys 47 Starlink Satellites to Low-Earth Orbit The Weather Channel Elon Musk's space venture SpaceX has successfully launched 47 Starlink satellites. The Starlink 4-9 mission lifted off at 9.25 a.m. EST (6.25 a.m. PST) on March 3 from pad 39A at Kennedy Space Centre in Florida. It was SpaceX's ninth of a planned 52 ... Flag as irrelevant
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