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    Watch balloon-like space station module explode (on purpose) during 1st full-scale burst test

    I'm not positive, but this looks like a typo: "As justification, Vice highlighted the cost value of an inflatable module, citing its ability to crunch into a five-meter (60-foot) rocket." Or I'm unfamiliar with the context. Are 5 meter payloads usually mounted to 60 foot rockets? Otherwise, well...
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    'Lightning' on Venus may not be lightning at all, Parker Solar Probe finds

    Hiya Bill, I bothered reading through the paper the article sites before responding. It seems like the paper proposes magnetic reconnection as the source of whistler waves on Venus. From a harvard doc (https://lweb.cfa.harvard.edu/~namurphy/Lectures/Ay253_2016_11_MagneticReconnection.pdf)...