The End of The Road for the Atlas Rocket

Published: Nov. 11, 2022, 5:42 a.m.

Friday November 11, 2022
Today\u2019s headline stories:
Astronomy Daily \u2013 The Podcast
-NASA will continue a lunar smallsat mission for launch in mid 2023, despite exceeding its cost cap by 30%.
-The Atlas rocket family, a staple of the US. Launch industry since June 1157, ended its West Coast operations on November 10 with the launch of an Atlas V rocket with the JPS Two weather satellite.
-A new satellite image shows that the world's largest iceberg 76 A has entered the Drake Passage, a waterway that contains a fastmoving ocean current that will send the mighty Berg on a one-way trip to a watery grave.
-One of the largest pieces of NASA's fallen space shuttle, Challenger, has been discovered on the ocean floor by a TV documentary team searching for a downed World War II aircraft.
-Our warming planet \u2013 a new study
-Mars has a core \u2013 confirmed
-The ever-changing Artemis launch date\u2026will it or won\u2019t it?
-An Exoplanet update
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