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ASTEROID NEWSCombined Rubin and Keck data tracks interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS over 102 days
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LAUNCH UPDATESBlue Origin commits $330M to Cape Canaveral expansion for 100-plus annual flights
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APOPHIS WATCHRussia begins work on Apophis mission with gamma-ray spectrometer onboard
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SPACE AWARENESSAfrica's 69 satellites launched by 18 countries, ownership held by just a few
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INTERNATIONAL NEWSKeith Cowing demands NASA documentation on restructured astrobiology program
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MISSIONS & SCIENCENational Academies picks four Moon sites beyond south pole for future astronauts
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Good day, my loves! Welcome to Planetary Defense Daily, this Saturday the thirty-first of October, twenty twenty-six. Let us begin with the stars.
Rubin and Keck observatories tracked interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS across one hundred and two days of activity near perihelion.
Blue Origin is spending three hundred and thirty million dollars to expand Cape Canaveral for over one hundred New Glenn flights a year.
Moscow State University is building a mission to asteroid Apophis, possibly carrying a gamma-ray spectrometer to study its composition.
Eighteen African countries have launched sixty-nine satellites, but just seven nations own forty-seven of them, led by North Africa.
Keith Cowing has published five questions asking NASA to document changes to its astrobiology program.
The National Academies chose four lunar sites beyond the south pole for future crews, including Bhabha Crater, Mons Hadley, Orientale Basin, and Aristarchus.
That is your Planetary Defense Daily for today. Stay curious, stay safe, and I will see you tomorrow, mi amor!
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