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Author: Justin Bachman

Rocket Lab USA Inc. is exploring ways to accelerate development of its next rocket after the invasion of Ukraine effectively ended commercial business for Russia’s Soyuz medium-lift rocket.

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Author: Amanda Gillies

Kiwis are being asked to give up booze, sugar and even their couch-potato ways for one month to help raise awareness and funding for New Zealand's most deadly group of cancers.

Give It Up for Gut has been organised by the Gut Cancer Foundation and all the money raised will help detect, diagnose and treat the seven deadly gut cancers which kill, on average, eight Kiwis every day.

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Your pad or mine? Introducing Launch Complex 1 Pad B: officially complete and ready for its first launch next week!
 
Pad B joins Pad A at Launch Complex 1, the world’s first private orbital launch site. Together with our third launch pad in Virginia, Rocket Lab’s launch sites can support up to 132 Electron launch opportunities every year.
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NASA has announced plans for the International Space Station (ISS) to be officially decommissioned in 2031. After dozens of launches since 1998 got the station up and into orbit, bringing it down will be a feat of its own – the risks are serious if things go wrong.

NASA's plans for the decommissioning operation will culminate in a fiery plunge into the middle of the Pacific Ocean – a location called Point Nemo, also known as the 'spacecraft graveyard', the furthest point from all civilisation.

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The story of our universe begins nearly 14 billion years ago with the Big Bang.

We can still see the afterglow of this violent and sudden expansion of the cosmos.

Clumps of lurid blues and purples, known as cosmic microwave background radiation, reveal minute variations in temperature and density.

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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, built to give the world its first glimpse of the universe as it existed when the earliest galaxies formed, was launched by rocket early Saturday from the northeastern coast of South America, opening a new era of astronomy.

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Pendants and bracelets sold as protection against 5G radio waves are radioactive, officials in Europe have warned.

'Quantum pendants' and 'negative ion' jewellery meant to protect wearers against the alleged harmful effects of cellphone signals have been recalled by the Netherlands' Authority for Nuclear Safety and Radiation Protection (ANVS).

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In November China's Yutu 2 lunar rover photographed an object on the far side of the moon that was quickly dubbed a 'mystery house'.

According to journalist Andrew Jones, who reports on China's space programme, the cube-shaped image was around 80m away from the rover in an area known as the Von Kármán crater.

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