Southern Launch’s First Flight's a Big Success

*First flights from Southern Launch’s new Australian rocket range a big success
Southern Launch has undertaken its first flights from its new rocket test range in western South Australia.
*263 new Near-Earth objects detected over the past month
The latest data from the European Space Agency’s Near-Earth Objects co-ordination centre indicates there are now at least 23 thousand 423 asteroids and 111 comets on orbits which bring them close to Earth’s orbit around the Sun.
*Another successful test for SpaceX’s new Starship prototype
SpaceX has successfully conducted a sixth test flight of a prototype test article for Elon Musk’s long dreamed of Starship interplanetary colonial transport.
*The Science Report
New claims COVID-19 was invented in a Chinese government laboratory.
A massive 110 square kilometre chunk of Greenland’s ice cap has broken off.
How the death of a family pet can trigger a sense of grief that is profound and prolonged.
The new DNA study to determine which Vikings plundered and pillaged which countries.
The imagined threats of 5G are causing real-world harm.


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