I Was Blinded By Science

And you thought theSpace Shuttle Programended in the year 2011.Then what is up withX-37B? X-37B: The Air Force's Mysterious Space Plane By Mike Wall, Senior Writer for Space.com The U.S. Air Force's unmanned X-37B space plane has flown four clandestine missions to date, carrying secret payloads on long-duration flights in Earth orbit. The robotic vehicle resembles NASA's famous space shuttle but is much smaller. The X-37B is about 29 feet (8.8 meters) long and 9.5 feet (2.9 m) tall, with a wingspan just less than 15 feet (4.6 m). At launch, it weighs 11,000 lbs. (4,990 kilograms).
 
Massive Glowing "Rogue Planet" Spotted Drifting In Space By Chris Ciaccia | Fox News A massive glowing "rogue" planetary-mass object has been discovered, surprising scientists with not only its size, but also the fact it's not orbiting a star. The object, named SIMP J01365663+0933473, has a magnetic field more than 200 times stronger than Jupiter’s and is nearly 13 times the size of the gas giant. At its size, it's right between the size of a planet and a failed star, so scientists will need to study it further to determine exactly what it is. “This object is right at the boundary between a planet and a brown dwarf, or ‘failed star,’ and is giving us some surprises that can potentially help us understand magnetic processes on both stars and planets,” said Caltech graduate student Melodie Kao, who led the study, in a statement. The study's findings have been published in the Astrophysical Journal.
  Artificial Meteor Shower Displays Are Coming By Rachel England, @rachel_england in Space Fireworks. So passé, right? That could well be the thinking of one Japanese start-up, which is developing shooting stars on demand, and plans to put on the world's first artificial meteor shower in early 2020.Tokyo-based ALE has created micro-satellites that release tiny orbs that glow brightly when they enter the atmosphere, simulating the dazzling spectacle of a meteor shower. The chemicals involved are apparently a closely-guarded secret, but each satellite is able to carry 400 balls -- enough for 20-30 meteor events -- which can be tinkered with to produce multi-colored "stars". Each star will burn for several seconds before being completely burned up, long before they're close enough to Earth to pose any danger.The first satellite will hitch a ride into space via a rocket launched by Japan's space agency in March 2019, while the second will be launched in mid-2019 on a private sector rocket. The company is also looking at the possibility of using existing non-operational satellites to create "giant" shooting stars.
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This is,What I Have Been Reading Of Late,Jim Hauenstein,
And,
Once I blazed across the sky, leaving trails of flame. I fell to earth, and here I lie - A Shooting Star”
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