SpaceX Starship Static-fire Test in Texas: 31 Raptor Engines

SpaceX Starship Static-fire Test in Texas: 31 Raptor Engines

At SpaceX’s Starbase test site in Boca Chica, Texas, Starship Super Heavy Booster 7 completed a successful full duration static fire test of 31 Raptor engines, producing 7.9 million lbf of thrust (~3,600 metric tons)—less than half of the booster’s capability on Feb. 9, 2023. 

"Starship is essential to both SpaceX’s plans to deploy its next-generation Starship system as well as for NASA, which will use a lunar lander version of Starship for landing astronauts on the moon on the Artemis III mission through the Human Landing System (HLS) program."

SpaceX’s Starship spacecraft and Super Heavy rocket—collectively referred to as Starship—represent a fully reusable transportation system designed to carry both crew and cargo to Earth orbit, the Moon, Mars and beyond. Starship will be the world’s most powerful launch vehicle ever developed, with the ability to carry up to 150 metric tonnes to Earth orbit reusable, and up to 250 metric tonnes expendable.

Key Starship Parameters:

Height: 120m/394ft

Diameter: 9m/30ft

Payload to LEO: 100 – 250+ t (orbit dependent)

Capabilities:

Satellites: "Starship is designed to deliver satellites further and at a lower marginal cost per launch than our current Falcon vehicles. With a payload compartment larger than any fairing currently in operation or development, Starship creates possibilities for new missions, including space telescopes even larger than the James Webb."

Landing on Mars: "Starship will enter Mars’ atmosphere at 7.5 kilometers per second and decelerate aerodynamically. The vehicle’s heat shield is designed to withstand multiple entries, but given that the vehicle is coming into Mars' atmosphere so hot, we still expect to see some ablation of the heat shield (similar to wear and tear on a brake pad)."

Starship's Engines: Raptors

"The Raptor engine is a reusable methalox staged-combustion engine that powers the Starship launch system. Raptor engines began flight testing on the Starship prototype rockets in July 2019, becoming the first full-flow staged combustion rocket engine ever flown."

Raptor Engine Parameters:

Diameter: 1.3m/4ft

Height: 3.1m/10.2ft

Thrust: 230tf/500 klbf

First Lunar Private Mission

"Later this decade, Japanese entrepreneur Yusaku Maezawa and the crew of dearMoon will become the first civilian passengers on a lunar Starship mission, featuring a fly-by of the Moon during their week-long journey. This flight is an important step toward enabling access for people who dream of traveling to space."

Download the Free Starship User Guide (PDF): 

https://www.spacex.com/media/starship_users_guide_v1.pdf

Image Credit: Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX)

Caption Credit: SpaceX/Jeff Foust at SpaceNews.com

Image Date: Feb. 9, 2023

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Celebrating Diversity in Space & Technology | This Week at NASA

Celebrating Diversity in Space & Technology | This Week at NASA

Making space for all with the National Museum of African American History and Culture, celebrating the DART Mission, and spotting a tiny asteroid with the James Webb Space Telescope . . . a few of the stories to tell you about—This Week @NASA.

Credit: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

Duration: 2 minutes

Release Date: Feb. 10, 2023

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Expedition 68: New Feb. 2023 Crew Photos | International Space Station

Expedition 68: New Feb. 2023 Crew Photos | International Space Station

Astronaut Frank Rubio sets up the new Particle Vibration experiment

Cosmonaut Anna Kikina works on preventive maintenance

Cosmonaut Sergey Prokopyev replaces orbital plumbing components

Astronaut Josh Cassada waters tomato plants

Red dwarf tomato plants growing in the Veggie plant growth facility

Astronaut Koichi Wakata is pictured during his second spacewalk

Cosmonaut Anna Kikina practices European robotic arm maneuvering techniques

Follow Expedition 68 crew updates at:

https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/

Expedition 68 Crew

Station Commander: Sergey Prokopyev of Roscosmos (Russia)

Roscosmos (Russia): Flight Engineers Anna Kikina & Dmitri Petelin

NASA: Flight Engineers Nicole Mann, Frank Rubio & Josh Cassada

JAXA (Japan): Flight Engineer Koichi Wakata

An international partnership of space agencies provides and operates the elements of the  International Space Station (ISS). The principals are the space agencies of the United States, Russia, Europe, Japan, and Canada. The ISS has been the most politically complex space exploration program ever undertaken.

Credit: NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC)

Image Dates: Feb. 1-5, 2023

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The Himalayas & Tibetan Plateau | International Space Station

The Himalayas & Tibetan Plateau | International Space Station

The Himalayas, pictured from the International Space Station at an altitude of 259 miles, separate China's Tibetan Plateau from the Indian subcontinent countries of Pakistan, India, Nepal, and Bhutan.

Follow Expedition 68 crew updates at: 

https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/

Expedition 68 Crew

Station Commander: Sergey Prokopyev of Roscosmos (Russia)

Roscosmos (Russia): Flight Engineers Anna Kikina & Dmitri Petelin

NASA: Flight Engineers Nicole Mann, Frank Rubio & Josh Cassada

JAXA (Japan): Flight Engineer Koichi Wakata

An international partnership of space agencies provides and operates the elements of the  International Space Station (ISS). The principals are the space agencies of the United States, Russia, Europe, Japan, and Canada. The ISS has been the most politically complex space exploration program ever undertaken.

Credit: NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC)

Image Date: Feb. 1, 2023

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Zooming into a Spiral Amongst Thousands: LEDA 2046648 | Hubble

Zooming into a Spiral Amongst Thousands: LEDA 2046648 | Hubble

This video takes the viewers on a journey into the field of stars and galaxies surrounding the spiral galaxy LEDA 2046648. Webb’s NIRCam instrument has picked out a profusion of smaller, more distant galaxies and bright stars around this galaxy, demonstrating the telescope’s impressive resolution in infrared wavelengths. Calibration images such as this one were critical to verify the telescope’s capabilities as it was prepared for science operations, and this one doesn’t disappoint.

Credit:

European Space Agency/Webb, NASA & CSA, A. Martel, Dark Energy Survey/DOE/FNAL/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA, DSS, E. Slawik, N. Risinger, D. de Martin, N. Bartmann, M. Zamani  

Duration: 1 minute

Release Date: Feb. 9, 2023

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NASA's Space to Ground: A Multifaceted Module | Week of Feb. 10, 2023

NASA's Space to Ground: A Multifaceted Module | Week of Feb. 10, 2023

NASA's Space to Ground is your weekly update on what's happening aboard the International Space Station. The Expedition 68 crew is looking forward to a delivery mission that will arrive at the International Space Station this weekend.

Nearly three tons of food, fuel, and supplies, is on its way to replenish the seven residents living aboard the orbital outpost. The ISS Progress 83 (83P) resupply ship launched at 1:15 a.m. EST on Thursday, Feb. 9, 2023, and is orbiting Earth racing toward the space station. The 83P will automatically dock to the Zvezda module’s rear port at 3:49 a.m. on Saturday beginning a six-month stay at the station. NASA TV will cover the space freighter’s arrival live on the agency’s website.

Follow Expedition 68 crew updates at: 

https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/

Expedition 68 Crew

Station Commander: Sergey Prokopyev of Roscosmos (Russia)

Roscosmos (Russia): Flight Engineers Anna Kikina & Dmitri Petelin

NASA: Flight Engineers Nicole Mann, Frank Rubio & Josh Cassada

JAXA (Japan): Flight Engineer Koichi Wakata

An international partnership of space agencies provides and operates the elements of the  International Space Station (ISS). The principals are the space agencies of the United States, Russia, Europe, Japan, and Canada. The ISS has been the most politically complex space exploration program ever undertaken.

Learn more about the important research being operated on Station:

https://www.nasa.gov/iss-science 

For more information about STEM on Station:

https://www.nasa.gov/stemonstation

Credit: NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC)

Duration: 2 minutes, 45 seconds

Release Date: Feb. 9, 2023

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Expedition 68 Russian Cargo Ship Launch | International Space Station

Expedition 68 Russian Cargo Ship Launch | International Space Station

The uncrewed Roscosmos Progress 83 cargo craft launched to the International Space Station from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on February 9, 2023, atop a Soyuz booster rocket. Progress is filled with almost three tons of supplies and cargo. It will dock to the Zvezda service module after completing a two-day rendezvous. The resupply spacecraft will remain docked to the space station until later this year.

Follow Expedition 68 crew updates at: 

https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/

Expedition 68 Crew

Station Commander: Sergey Prokopyev of Roscosmos (Russia)

Roscosmos (Russia): Flight Engineers Anna Kikina & Dmitri Petelin

NASA: Flight Engineers Nicole Mann, Frank Rubio & Josh Cassada

JAXA (Japan): Flight Engineer Koichi Wakata

An international partnership of space agencies provides and operates the elements of the  International Space Station (ISS). The principals are the space agencies of the United States, Russia, Europe, Japan, and Canada. The ISS has been the most politically complex space exploration program ever undertaken.

Credit: NASA Video

Duration: 28 minutes

Release Date: Feb. 9, 2023

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Russian Supply Ship Undocking & Destructive Reentry | International Space Station

Russian Supply Ship Undocking & Destructive Reentry | International Space Station 

The ISS Progress 81 resupply ship from Roscosmos (Russia) is pictured 266 miles above the Pacific Ocean off the coast of the Kuril Islands after undocking from the Zvezda service module's rear port on Monday, Feb. 7, 2023. It would later reenter the Earth's atmosphere above the Pacific Ocean for a safe demise after completing an eight-month International Space Station resupply mission.

Follow Expedition 68 crew updates at: 

https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/

Expedition 68 Crew

Station Commander: Sergey Prokopyev of Roscosmos (Russia)

Roscosmos (Russia): Flight Engineers Anna Kikina & Dmitri Petelin

NASA: Flight Engineers Nicole Mann, Frank Rubio & Josh Cassada

JAXA (Japan): Flight Engineer Koichi Wakata

An international partnership of space agencies provides and operates the elements of the  International Space Station (ISS). The principals are the space agencies of the United States, Russia, Europe, Japan, and Canada. The ISS has been the most politically complex space exploration program ever undertaken.

Credit: NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC)

Image Date: Feb. 7, 2023

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The Moon Beckons over Eastern China | International Space Station

The Moon Beckons over Eastern China | International Space Station

The waxing gibbous Moon is pictured above Earth's horizon from the International Space Station as it orbited 260 miles above eastern China near the Yellow Sea coast.

Follow Expedition 68 crew updates at: 

https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/

Expedition 68 Crew

Station Commander: Sergey Prokopyev of Roscosmos (Russia)

Roscosmos (Russia): Flight Engineers Anna Kikina & Dmitri Petelin

NASA: Flight Engineers Nicole Mann, Frank Rubio & Josh Cassada

JAXA (Japan): Flight Engineer Koichi Wakata

An international partnership of space agencies provides and operates the elements of the  International Space Station (ISS). The principals are the space agencies of the United States, Russia, Europe, Japan, and Canada. The ISS has been the most politically complex space exploration program ever undertaken.

Credit: NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC)

Image Date: Feb. 2, 2023

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The Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer Mission: Launch Prep | European Space Agency

The Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer Mission: Launch Prep | European Space Agency

A grand odyssey of exploration is about to begin. Humankind’s next bold mission to the outer Solar System, the European Space Agency’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer, Juice, is poised to explore giant planet Jupiter and its largest moons. These intriguing worlds have piqued our curiosity ever since Galileo first raised his telescope to the planet and discovered its four largest moons: Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto, three of which are thought to harbor underground oceans.

Early space probes visiting the Jovian system have raised more questions than answers. Thanks to Juice, many of those answers are now within reach. The European Space Agency (ESA) is launching the spacecraft in April 2023 on an eight-year journey to the distant planet.

To uncover the hidden secrets of these mysterious worlds, Juice is equipped with the most powerful science instruments ever sent to the outer Solar System. The spacecraft will face many dangers along the way: radiation, extreme temperatures, and the vast gravitational pull of Jupiter, all while operating hundreds of millions of kilometers from Earth. However, in the safe hands of ESA’s operators to guide it safely through these challenges, the dangers will be worth it for the science that Juice is destined to uncover. 

The countdown to this new era of Jupiter system exploration has begun. Stay tuned: www.esa.int/juice

NASA's Europa Clipper Mission will complement the European Space Agency's JUICE Mission. Juice will fly-by Europa twice and Callisto multiple times before moving into orbit around Ganymede.

Credit: Produced by ESA/ATG medialab

Duration: 3 minutes, 28 seconds

Release Date: Feb. 9, 2023  

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Saturn's Rings are Acting Strange | Hubble

Saturn's Rings are Acting Strange | Hubble

New images of Saturn from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope herald the start of the planet’s “spoke season” surrounding its equinox, when enigmatic features appear across its rings. The cause of the spokes, as well as their seasonal variability, has yet to be fully explained by planetary scientists.

Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center 

Paul Morris: Lead Producer 

Duration: 2 minutes, 38 seconds

Release Date: Feb. 9, 2023

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New Spokes Spotted on Saturn's Rings | Hubble

New Spokes Spotted on Saturn's Rings | Hubble

Mysterious Features First Seen Decades Ago by NASA's Voyager Spacecraft

Since their discovery by NASA's Voyager mission in the 1980s, temporary "spoke" features across Saturn's rings have fascinated scientists, yet eluded explanation. They have been observed in the years preceding and following the planet's equinox, becoming more prominent as the date approaches.

Image Description: Planet Saturn with bright white rings and multi-colored main sphere. Spoke features on the left side of the rings appear like faint gray smudges against the rings' bright backdrop, about midway from the planet to the rings' outer edge. Above the rings plane, the planet's bands are shades of red and orange, with brighter yellow nearer the equator.

Saturn's upcoming autumnal equinox of the northern hemisphere on May 6, 2025, means that spoke season has come again. NASA's Hubble Space Telescope will be on the job studying the spokes, thanks to time dedicated to Saturn in the mission’s ongoing Outer Planet Atmospheres Legacy (OPAL) program. Are the smudgy features related to Saturn's magnetic field and its interaction with the solar wind, as prevailing theory suggests? Confirmation could come in this spoke season, as scientists combine archival data from NASA's Cassini mission with new Hubble observations.

Planet Saturn with bright white rings and multi-colored main sphere. Spoke features appear like faint gray smudges against the rings' bright backdrop, about midway from the planet to the rings' outer edge. Above the rings plane, the planet's bands are shades of red and orange, with brighter yellow nearer the equator.

New images of Saturn from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope herald the start of the planet's "spoke season" surrounding its equinox, when enigmatic features appear across its rings. The cause of the spokes, as well as their seasonal variability, has yet to be fully explained by planetary scientists.

Like Earth, Saturn is tilted on its axis and therefore has four seasons, though because of Saturn's much larger orbit, each season lasts approximately seven Earth years. Equinox occurs when the rings are tilted edge-on to the Sun. The spokes disappear when it is near summer or winter solstice on Saturn. (When the Sun appears to reach either its highest or lowest latitude in the northern or southern hemisphere of a planet.) As the autumnal equinox of Saturn's northern hemisphere on May 6, 2025, draws near, the spokes are expected to become increasingly prominent and observable.

The suspected culprit for the spokes is the planet's variable magnetic field. Planetary magnetic fields interact with the solar wind, creating an electrically charged environment (on Earth, when those charged particles hit the atmosphere this is visible in the northern hemisphere as the aurora borealis, or northern lights). Scientists think that the smallest, dust-sized icy ring particles can become charged as well, which temporarily levitates those particles above the rest of the larger icy particles and boulders in the rings.

The ring spokes were first observed by NASA's Voyager mission in the early 1980s. The transient, mysterious features can appear dark or light depending on the illumination and viewing angles.

"Thanks to Hubble's OPAL program, which is building an archive of data on the outer solar system planets, we will have longer dedicated time to study Saturn’s spokes this season than ever before," said NASA senior planetary scientist Amy Simon, head of the Hubble Outer Planet Atmospheres Legacy (OPAL) program.

Saturn's last equinox occurred in 2009, while NASA's Cassini spacecraft was orbiting the gas giant planet for close-up reconnaissance. With Cassini's mission completed in 2017, and the Voyager spacecrafts long gone, Hubble is continuing the work of long-term monitoring of changes on Saturn and the other outer planets.

"Despite years of excellent observations by the Cassini mission, the precise beginning and duration of the spoke season is still unpredictable, rather like predicting the first storm during hurricane season," Simon said.

While our solar system's other three gas giant planets also have ring systems, nothing compares to Saturn's prominent rings, making them a laboratory for studying spoke phenomena. Whether spokes could or do occur at other ringed planets is currently unknown. "It's a fascinating magic trick of nature we only see on Saturn—for now at least," Simon said.

Hubble's OPAL program will add both visual and spectroscopic data, in wavelengths of light from ultraviolet to near-infrared, to the archive of Cassini observations. Scientists are anticipating putting these pieces together to get a more complete picture of the spoke phenomenon, and what it reveals about ring physics in general.

The Hubble Space Telescope is a project of international cooperation between NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA). NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, manages the telescope. The Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore conducts Hubble science operations. STScI is operated for NASA by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, in Washington, D.C.

Image & Caption Credit: NASA, European Space Agency (ESA), Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI)

Processing: Alyssa Pagan (STScI)

Image Date: Sept. 22, 2022

Release Date: Feb. 9, 2023

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How Do We Communicate with Spacecraft? We Asked a NASA Expert

How Do We Communicate with Spacecraft? We Asked a NASA Expert

How do we communicate with spacecraft? For decades, satellites have beamed data back to Earth by way of radio waves, with a network of ground-based antennas collecting the incoming information. Now, we are exploring laser communications, technology that will allow us to receive more data from farther than ever before—faster, too. 

NASA space communications expert Risha George tells us more: https://www.nasa.gov/lasercomms

Credit: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

Producers: Scott Bednar, Jessica Wilde

Editor: James Lucas

Duration: 2 minutes

Release Date: Feb. 8, 2023

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NASA Artemis V Moon Rocket Engine Tests: Preparing for Crewed Missions

NASA Artemis V Moon Rocket Engine Tests: Preparing for Crewed Missions

NASA’s newly redesigned RS-25 engine for future flights of the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket, underwent its first hot fire test of the year on Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2023, at the agency’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi.

The series of testing supports production of new RS-25 engines by lead SLS engine contractor Aerojet Rocketdyne. The new engines will help power future Artemis missions to the Moon beginning with Artemis V as NASA explores the universe for the benefit of all.

The single-engine hot fire on the Fred Haise Test Stand followed a confidence test in 2022, which tested whether all was ready to proceed with the certification series.

During the latest test, engineers fired the RS-25 engine for a full duration of about eight and a half minutes (500 seconds), the same amount of time the engines must operate to help power SLS to space. The RS-25 engine also operated at 111% power for most of the test, the same level needed to help lift SLS to orbit. The test featured a range of new components, most of which were installed for the December hot fire. One additional component—a new nozzle—was installed prior to the most recent hot fire. 

Four RS-25 engines fire simultaneously to generate a combined 1.6 million pounds of thrust at launch and 2 million pounds of thrust during ascent to help power each SLS flight. NASA and Aerojet Rocketdyne modified 16 engines remaining from the Space Shuttle Program, which were proven flightworthy at Stennis for Artemis missions I through IV.

Every RS-25 engine that will help power SLS will be tested at NASA Stennis. RS-25 tests at the site are conducted by a combined team of NASA, Aerojet Rocketdyne, and Syncom Space Services operators. Syncom Space Services is the prime contractor for Stennis facilities and operations.

Through Artemis missions, NASA will land the first woman and the first person of color on the surface of the Moon, paving the way for a long-term lunar presence and serving as a steppingstone on the way to Mars.

For information about the Space Launch System, visit: 

https://www.nasa.gov/exploration/systems/sls/index.html

Credit: NASA Stennis

Acknowledgement: SciNews

Duration: 9 minutes

Release Date: Feb. 8, 2023

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Footprints of Mass Star Migration into The Andromeda Galaxy | NOIRLab

Footprints of Mass Star Migration into The Andromeda Galaxy | NOIRLab

Cosmoview Episode 62: A team of researchers led by astronomers at the National Science Foundation's NOIRLab has uncovered striking new evidence for a mass migration of stars into the Andromeda Galaxy. Intricate patterns in the motions of stars reveal an immigration history very similar to that of the Milky Way. The new results were obtained with the U.S. Department of Energy's Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument on the Nicholas U. Mayall 4-meter Telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory, a Program of NSF’s NOIRLab.

Credits:

Images and Videos: CTIO/KPNO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/R.T. Sparks/E. Slawik/M. Zaman/N. Bartmann  

Image Processing: KPNO/NOIRLab/AURA/NSF/E. Slawik/D. de Martin/M. Zamani  

Duration: 1 minute, 24 seconds

Release Date: Feb. 8, 2023

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NASA's Curiosity Rover Finds New Clues to Mars’ Watery Past | JPL

NASA's Curiosity Rover Finds New Clues to Mars’ Watery Past | JPL

NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover has discovered lots of evidence of ancient lakes on the Red Planet—and this recent panorama shows intriguing new clues. 

Curiosity, which landed on Mars in 2012, is currently exploring a unique feature known as the “Marker Band” in the foothills of Mount Sharp. Rocks in this area show the clearest evidence yet for waves the mission has ever seen: rippled textures that formed billions of years ago, as waves on the surface of a shallow lake stirred up sediment on the lake bottom.

Farther up the mountain, Curiosity can see more evidence of ancient water: wet landslides caused boulders and other debris to slip down into a valley. Curiosity caught a glimpse of this debris from a distance, but the rover's team hopes to get a closer look later in 2023.

Celebrating 10 Years+ on Mars! (2012-2023)

Mission Name: Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)

Rover Name: Curiosity

Main Job: To determine if Mars was ever habitable to microbial life. 

Launch: Nov. 6, 2011

Landing Date: Aug. 5, 2012, Gale Crater, Mars

For more information on NASA's Curiosity rover, visit mars.nasa.gov/msl

For more on NASA’s Mars missions, visit mars.nasa.gov

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/University of Arizona

Duration: 3 minutes, 10 seconds

Release Date: Feb. 8, 2023

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