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ISS Shelter Alert, Starshield Launch & Roman Telescope 8 Months Early
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Five NASA astronauts sheltered in a Crew Dragon capsule during a tense ISS repair operation, while SpaceX prepared a classified Starshield launch and the Roman Space Telescope moved eight months ahead of schedule. This episode covers the week's biggest space news: station safety, military satellites, Mars clay discoveries, and a new way to hunt hidden black holes.
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Five NASA astronauts were ordered into a Crew Dragon capsule on June sixth while Russian cosmonauts prepared to cut structural brackets inside a leaking module. That's not a drill.
Shifting to Saturday night, SpaceX is launching from Vandenberg. Twenty-one Starlink satellites plus two Starshield satellites on a single Falcon nine.
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is now scheduled to launch August thirtieth, twenty twenty-six. That's eight months ahead of where the schedule stood.
On Mars, new data is sharpening the picture of ancient water. Clay deposits near Oxia Planum, the planned landing site for the ExoMars rover, extend roughly six hundred kilometers northeast toward Mawrth Vallis.
Finally, a new detection method for something that's been genuinely hard to find. Supermassive black hole binaries, two massive black holes orbiting each other, are predicted to exist but rarely confirmed.
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