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SpaceX, Starlink and Low Earth orbit

SpaceX hoping to send more Starlink satellites into low-Earth orbit

SpaceX is slated to launch a new group of Starlink V2 Mini satellites into low-Earth orbit Tuesday night. The 28 devices will ride a Falcon 9 that is scheduled to liftoff at 9:17 p.m. EDT from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Brevard County,

Space on MSN · 4h

SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches 28 Starlink satellites to orbit from Florida (photos)

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Florida's Space Coast on Tuesday night (May 6), carrying 28 Starlink broadband satellites into low Earth orbit.

Yahoo · 16h

SpaceX set to bring more Starlink satellites into low Earth orbit

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches its Starlink Satellites into orbit from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida in April. Photo by Joe Marino/UPI 33,187 people played the daily Crossword recently.

Soviet spacecraft Cosmos 482 expected to crash back to Earth

USA TODAY on MSN · 8h

Here's when the Soviet-era spacecraft Cosmos 482 may return to Earth

Part of a Soviet-era spacecraft known as Cosmos 482 may return to Earth this week, more than 50 years after it embarked on a botched mission to Venus.

Science News · 14h

A Soviet spacecraft will crash to Earth this month

Kosmos 482 launched for Venus in 1972 but never left Earth orbit. The spacecraft has now lost enough energy that it can’t fight gravity anymore.

LAist on MSN · 1d

A Soviet probe orbiting Earth since 1972 will soon reenter the planet's atmosphere

Kosmos 482 has been orbiting the Earth for decades. It's still unknown if the craft will fall to Earth intact or burn up upon atmospheric reentry.

ScienceAlert2h

History Crashes to Earth: The Long Journey of Venus Probe Kosmos 482

During the height of the Cold War in the 1960s and 1970s, the USSR launched 29 spacecraft towards Venus, the planet ...

8don MSN

A spacecraft orbiting for 53 years is projected to fall to Earth soon

The latest projections peg the 1,000-pound spacecraft’s reentry between May 8 and May 11. A complicating factor is that ...

The Washington Post5d

Soviet-era spacecraft once bound for Venus expected to crash to Earth in May

Some of these remained in low Earth orbit and broke down within 48 hours, while others went into a higher orbit but did not gain enough speed to reach Venus, NASA said. The object scientists are ...

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