After more than 11 incredible years in orbit, NASA has officially bid farewell to the MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution) spacecraft.

#maven #mars #spaceexploration #marsmission #astronomy #planetaryscience #spacelaunch #redplanet #deepspace

SpaceX: Flying High on Impunity

https://georgiebc.wordpress.com/2026/06/01/flying-high-on-impunity/

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Why Has Saturn’s True Rotation Rate Confounded Scientists for So Long?

Learn More: https://astronex.net/why-has-saturns-true-rotation-rate-confounded-scientists-for-so-long/

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SpaceX launches back-to-back Starlink missions from both coasts 19 hours apart (photos)

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/spacex-starlink-17-47-b1108-vsfb-ocisly-10-43-b1090-ccsfs-asog

NASA's dead Mars orbiter MAVEN will crash into the Red Planet in the next 100 years. It's not the only probe in the Mars morgue

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.space.com/space-exploration/missions/nasas-dead-mars-orbiter-maven-will-crash-into-the-red-planet-in-the-next-100-years-its-not-the-only-probe-in-the-mars-morgue

Who’s Excited for SpaceX’s I.P.O.? Space Nerds.: Few are as delighted by the pending market debut as the vibrant community of space enthusiasts who want to push discovery of the final frontier. #SpaceX #IPO #SpaceNerds #SpaceExploration #Aerospace

https://umlegacypressqsefc.com/2026/06/04/whos-excited-for-spacexs-i-p-o-space-nerds-few-are-as-delighted-by-the-pending-market-debut-as-the-vibrant-community-of-space-enthusiasts-who-want-to-push-discovery-of-the-final/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social

McDonald Observatory: HETDEX Opens Massive Cosmic Dataset to Scientists, Novices, and AI. “Today, the Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment (HETDEX) – which recently completed the largest survey ever taken of the early universe – has released all of its immense, information-rich database to the public.”

Not an alien spacecraft: Hunt for 'technosignatures' around interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS comes up empty

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.space.com/space-exploration/search-for-life/not-an-alien-spacecraft-hunt-for-technosignatures-around-interstellar-comet-3i-atlas-comes-up-empty

The Capacity of HotHands to Facilitate High-Altitude Research (2023) [pdf]

https://www.colorado.edu/center/spacegrant/sites/default/files/attached-files/B3_RRCC_BringingTheHeatTo100%2C000Feet.pdf

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