In this week's space news from Ad Astra:

- Intuitive Machines was unable to revive its Odysseus moon lander
- A new photo of the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way shows us magnetic fields
- SpaceX conducted a static fire of Starship and is gearing up for the next test launch
- NASA will launch rockets into the solar eclipse to study the ionosphere
- Melting polar ice is speeding up the Earth's rotation

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⏱ TIMESTAMPS
00:00 - Introduction
00:16 - Intuitive Machines' moon mission is over
01:40 - Sagittarius A*'s magnetic fields from the Event Horizon Telescope
03:53 - Starship's static fire
05:40 - Why is NASA launching sounding rockets into the eclipse?
08:14 - Polar ice melt is affecting the Earth's rotation

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