/ 23 March 2022

A trio of space news

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  • More than 5,000 planets are now confirmed to exist beyond our solar system with NASA added 65 more ‘exoplanets’ to its archive. Scientists don’t know much about them, including who lives there. But 4% of the confirmed exoplanets are ‘terrestrial’ – that is, rocky planets like Earth or Mars – so you never know…
  • The Australian Defence Force has launched a new space division called Space Command, which will have its eyes on the threat of hypersonic missiles and satellites used in war. Defence Minister Peter Dutton said Oz would need to establish a military presence in space one day as it becomes “a new realm for conflict”. We bags designing the uniform…
  • And US comedian/Kim Kardashian’s current squeeze Pete Davidson is no longer going to space this week after he turned down his free seat on a Blue Origin suborbital flight. It’s unclear why…

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