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A rendering of Amazon’s proposed satellite processing facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. The 100,000-square-foot facility will be used to prepare satellites for its Project Kuiper internet constellation for launch aboard rockets from ULA and Blue Origin.

On Friday, online retail giant amazon will join with members of Space Florida to reveal its plans for a 100,000-square-foot satellite processing facility located at Space Florida’s Launch and Landing Facility (LLF) at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center.

Week in images: 17-21 July 2023

Earthquakes may make their presence known through GPS measurements several hours before their main events.

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ESA’s wind mission Aeolus is coming home. After five years of improving weather forecasts, the satellite will return in a first-of-its-kind assisted reentry. At ESA’s Space Operations Centre in Germany, mission control will use the satellite’s remaining fuel to steer Aeolus during its return to Earth.

Universal Pictures released a new featurette for director Christopher Nolan's "Oppenheimer" released on July 21.

The name Oppenheimer will always be synonymous with the power and destruction of the atomic bomb, but the physicist also played an essential role in the study of black holes.

Recovery teams are gearing up for the Sept. 24 landing of OSIRIS-REx's asteroid sample in the Utah desert.

Low in twilight, Mercury consorts with Venus and squeaks by Regulus. The waxing gibbous Moon does what it does every July: crosses Scorpius and Sagittarius.

Image: This Copernicus Sentinel-2 image highlights the colours of autumn over the southern part of New York state in the US.

SpaceX launched 15 Starlink satellites into orbit overnight, steadily adding to the company's broadband megaconstellation. A few hours after liftoff, they posted these gorgeous launch photos.

The Moon is Earth's only natural satellite and has fascinated humans for millennia. Here are some interesting facts about the Moon:

NASA's ambitious asteroid collision mission might've created a swarm of boulders filled with key scientific information.

China is planning to launch a next-generation crewed spacecraft around 2027 that will be capable of carrying astronauts to the moon and even beyond.

The grandfather of pop culture conventions is a somewhat scaled-down affair this year, for a variety of reasons.

Scientists will attempt a first-of-its-kind guided safe reentry to Earth's atmosphere with the European Space Agency wind satellite Aeolus as it heads home at increasing speed.

The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) is one of the most iconic and influential telescopes ever launched into space. Operated by NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA), Hubble was launched on April 24, 1990, and remains in operation to this day. Here are some key facts about the Hubble Space Telescope:

Fighter pilot Jeremy Hansen, a Canadian astronaut on the Artemis 2 mission, talks about how the T-38 supersonic fleet 'can kill you' and why that's important for space training.