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WA outback to get rocket launch pad under Labor election pledge
Labor has promised $2 million to develop a business case for a WA Space Launch Facility – a common-user spaceport to allow businesses to launch satellites and spacecraft into orbit.
- Hamish Hastie
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‘Never observed before’: Wedding cake structure surrounding ultra-hot planet
It is so ferociously hot that the “exoplanet” features iron in the form of a gas in one layer of its atmosphere, while a jet stream moves at 70,000 km/h in another.
- Will Dunham
Space agencies monitoring large asteroid’s threat to Earth
Astronomers say the damage from 2024 YR4 would be catastrophic should it hit a city. But for now, experts say, calm is warranted.
- Robin George Andrews
Elon Musk’s Starship explodes in flight test, forcing airlines to divert
SpaceX mission control lost contact with the newly upgraded Starship, carrying its first test payload of mock satellites but no crew, eight minutes after lift-off.
- Joey Roulette
Mystery behind ‘alien’ space signals appears solved
Scientists have pinpointed the origins of a radio wave from space and found it to be suspiciously close to a neutron star.
- Sarah Knapton
The day Jimmy Carter told Australia he was sorry
A little-publicised apology from the 39th US president, who died on Sunday at the age of 100, took place after America’s first space station exploded.
- Farrah Tomazin
Why these Aussie artworks are being sent to the south pole of the moon
An international art contest provides cash prizes and international exposure. The interstellar fame is a bonus - and a message to future generations.
- Meg Watson
A Melbourne meteorite reveals an exotic new mineral hiding in plain sight
Hundreds of thousands of visitors have walked past the chunk of ancient space rock that has been on display at the Melbourne Museum for years. Then several small patches of green caught a scientist’s eye.
- Liam Mannix
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Australia’s giant leap in quest for life on the moon
The nation’s first moon rover, or Roo-ver, will gather and analyse fine lunar soil as NASA prepares for the first crewed landing since 1972.
- Angus Dalton
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A Sydney start-up launched a satellite to fight space junk. It’s now space junk
The largest Australian-built commercial satellite was launched in March. Then it went dark.
- Angus Dalton
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