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Teen charged after stolen car hits woman at Flinders Street
A 16-year-old has been charged after a stolen car allegedly hit a woman outside Melbourne's Flinders Street Station. He faces a children's court Monday.
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Liora Hale
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Liora Hale covers the Space desk, with 21 stories on NASA, ESA and the science that comes back from orbit and beyond. Recent stories include Crew-13 docking at the ISS in under eight hours, Webb sorting 21 extreme debris disks, and the Artemis Accords reaching 76 signatories. Hale also followed NASA's Roman Space Telescope from its Falcon Heavy launch to switching on its coronagraph.
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Eliud Kipchoge wins Melbourne Marathon in race record
Eliud Kipchoge, 41, won the Melbourne Marathon on Sunday in a race record 2:09:10. Australia's Thomas Do Canto was second at the MCG.
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ESA's Hera spots the Didymos asteroids and gets ready to brake
ESA's Hera saw the Didymos asteroids from 236,500 km on 7 October, two years after launch. A 93-minute braking burn on 15 October begins its arrival.
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ESA and Vast sign a three-year pact for life after the ISS
ESA signed a three-year agreement with Vast in Antalya on 5 October to plan European astronaut and research missions on its Haven space stations.
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NASA's SPRITE and SSPICY smallsats launched on Transporter-18
NASA's SPRITE CubeSat and Starfish Space's Otter 24C, flying the SSPICY mission, launched on SpaceX's Transporter-18 from Vandenberg on 1 October 2026.
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Smile, the ESA and China space mission, starts its science work
ESA and China's Smile spacecraft was cleared for science on 23 September. Its UV camera can watch the northern lights for 45 hours at a stretch.
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Webb sorts 21 extreme debris disks by the size of their crashes
NASA's Webb and Spitzer data cover 21 extreme debris disks. About one-third point to Mars-sized crashes like the one thought to have made our Moon.
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NASA picks three PRISM payloads to scout the Moon for Moon Base
NASA picked three PRISM payloads on 30 September for Moon Base. One will check whether the Moon's Marius Hills pit opens into a lava tube.
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ESA hires Airbus and OHB to study a European-led space station
ESA has two Airbus- and OHB-led teams studying a European-led space station for after the ISS. The nine-month studies began in June.
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Artemis Accords signatories, now 76, meet in Antalya on Monday
NASA's Artemis Accords signatories meet in Antalya on Monday 5 October. Albania, Croatia, Côte d'Ivoire and San Marino joined in September, making 76.
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Crew-13 docks at the ISS in under eight hours
Crew-13's Dragon Grace docked at the ISS on Thursday 1 Oct, 7 hours 55 minutes after launch. NASA says no U.S. spacecraft has got there faster.