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Suborbital space tourism finally arrives | FCC prepares to run public C-band auction | The big four in the U.S. launch industry — United Launch Alliance, SpaceX, Blue Origin and Northrop Grumman — hope to be one of two providers that will receive five-year contracts later this year to launch national security payloads starting in 2022. | China’s launch rate stays high | The International Space Station is the largest ever crewed object in space.

 
In a calendar rarity, Hanukkah starts this...
Hanukkah, Judaism’s eight-day Festival of Lights, begins this year on Christmas Day, which has only happened four times since 1900. For some rabbis, the intersection of the two religious holidays provides an auspicious occasion for interfaith engagement. “This can be a profound opportunity for learning and collaboration and togetherness,” said Rabbi Josh Stanton, a vice president of the Jewish Federations of North America. He oversees interfaith initiatives involving the 146 local and regional Jewish federations that his organization represents....

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At least 2 dead and 60 hurt...
Emergency services attend an incident at the Christmas market in Magdeburg, Germany, Friday Dec. 20, 2024. (Dörthe Hein/dpa via AP)(AP/Dörthe Hein) Emergency services attend an incident at the Christmas market in Magdeburg, Germany, Friday Dec. 20, 2024. (Dörthe Hein/dpa via AP)(AP/Dörthe Hein) MAGDEBURG, Germany (AP) — A car plowed into a busy outdoor Christmas market in the eastern German city of Magdeburg on Friday, killing at least two people and injuring at least 60 others in what authorities called...

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Friday’s Scores
GIRLS PREP BASKETBALL= Amherst County 57, Craig County 31 Asheville School, N.C. 47, Patrick Henry 41 Battlefield 46, Patriot 35 Bishop Ireton 76, Franklin Co., Ky. 45 Blue Ridge Christian 58, Ridgeview Christian 17 Buckingham County 56, Cumberland 45 Charlottesville 70, Orange County 26 Colgan 58, Gar-Field 15 Eastern Montgomery 33, Bath County 32 Falls Church 40, Annandale 22 Forest Park 69, Freedom – Woodbridge 47 Galax 49, Elkin, N.C. 17 Grace Christian 39, New Covenant 37 Greenbrier Christian...

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Stock market today: Wall Street drifts toward...
NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks are stumbling toward the close of one of their worst weeks of the year with mixed trading on Friday. The S&P 500 was basically flat in morning trading after flipping between small losses and gains earlier. It’s on track for a 3% loss for the week after the Federal Reserve warned Wednesday it may deliver fewer cuts to interest rates next year than earlier expected The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 86...

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ESA and NASA deliver first joint picture...
Global warming is driving the rapid melting of the Greenland Ice Sheet, contributing to global sea level rise and disrupting weather patterns worldwide. Because of this, precise measurements of its changing shape are of critical importance for adapting to climate change. Now, scientists have delivered the first measurements of the Greenland Ice Sheet’s changing shape using data from ESA’s CryoSat and NASA’s ICESat-2 ice missions.

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Call Your Mother joins Crystal City’s Water...
A Call Your Mother deli kiosk in Crystal City, Va.(Courtesy Call Your Mother) A Call Your Mother deli kiosk in Crystal City, Va.(Courtesy Call Your Mother) Fast-growing D.C. bagel and deli shop Call Your Mother will join food vendors at Water Park in Crystal City with its newest location, this one an outdoor kiosk. Water Park, a redeveloped public space by the Crystal City Metro, was created by JBG Smith as a year-round outdoor food destination, with nine food...

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ESA 2025: A fifty-years legacy ...
Video: 00:10:27 In 1975, 10 European countries came together with a vision to collaborate on key space activities: science and astronomy, launch capabilities and space applications: the European Space Agency, ESA, was born. In 2025, we mark half a century of joint European achievement – filled with firsts and breakthroughs in science, exploration and technology, and the space infrastructure and economy that power Europe today. During the past five decades ESA has grown, developing ever bolder and bigger projects...

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Cosmic jingles: listen to Euclid’s image of...
Video: 00:01:22 An ethereal dance of misty clouds of interstellar dust with a myriad of distant stars and galaxies speckled like paint drops over a black canvas. This is a sonification of a breathtaking image taken by ESA’s Euclid space telescope of the young star-forming region Messier 78.  The sonification offers a different representation of the data collected by Euclid, and lets us explore the stellar nurseries in M78 through sound. Close your eyes and listen to let the cosmic...

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Nigerians press for solar jobs and electricity,...
BAKU, Azerbaijan (AP) — In sun-drenched Nigeria, 14 new solar farms were supposed to jumpstart a meager solar industry and generate huge amounts of power, about one-fifth as much as the country’s entire electric grid offers on a good day. “We were very excited because we were pioneers,” said Najim Animashaun, managing director of Nova Solar Power, who was working on one of the projects in 2016. But that ambition collapsed when Nigeria’s government wouldn’t provide critical guarantees to...

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