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LRO images bracket McGetchin crater's formation to seven weeks in 2024, preserving bright ejecta, complex deposition and a seven-kilometre thermal disturbance. The post The Moon’s freshest craters are recognisable by bright rays of newly excavated rock and dust, which space weathering gradually darkens—and the new 222-metre McGetchin crater is so fresh that its ejecta still gleams, having formed sometime between 11 April and 22 May 2024. appeared first on Space Daily .

SpaceX has teased that the next version of Starlink Mobile will stand out by offering satellite-powered global roaming.

SpaceX said on Thursday that Starship’s Flight 14 is now targeted for Monday, September 28, pending regulatory approval.
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