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First Nuclear Satellite, Ancient Quasars & Galaxy Cluster Collision | Jul 10
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The first commercial nuclear-powered satellite is now in orbit, Keck confirms ancient quasars from the universe's first 670 million years, and Webb images a galaxy cluster collision. Today's daily space briefing covers five stories reshaping astronomy and commercial spaceflight.
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SpaceX is now within striking distance of eleven thousand Starlink satellites in orbit. A Falcon nine rocket lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base on July tenth, deploying twenty-four more V2 Mini spacecraft and pushing the constellation past ten thousand seven hundred.
Three days earlier, something quieter happened that carries longer-term implications. A satellite called BOHR reached orbit on July seventh, riding a SpaceX Transporter seventeen rideshare mission.
On the science side, the W.M. Keck Observatory confirmed twenty-one of thirty-one quasar candidates originally identified by ESA's Euclid mission.
The James Webb Space Telescope also produced its July picture of the month this week. The target was MACS J0553.4 minus 3342, two galaxy clusters in the process of merging, four point four billion light-years away.
Finally, space weather. NOAA is forecasting G1-level geomagnetic storms possible through July twelfth.
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