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Schiphol warns of additional noise pollution due to runway maintenance

Schiphol is once again asking the government for permission to use additional runways next summer, as the Buitenveldertbaan is undergoing major maintenance.

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Starship is about to launch on its fifth flight, and this time there’s a catch

Early Sunday morning, SpaceX will try something no one has ever done before. If all goes according to plan, around seven minutes after lifting off from South Texas, the huge stainless steel booster from SpaceX's Starship rocket will come back to the launch pad and slow to a hover, allowing powerful mechanical arms to capture it in midair. This is SpaceX's approach to recovering Starship's Super Heavy booster. If it works, this method will make it easier and faster to reuse the rocket than it is to recycle boosters from SpaceX's smaller Falcon 9 launch vehicle. Falcon 9's boosters usually come down on a floating drone ship stationed hundreds of miles out to sea, requiring SpaceX to return the rocket to shore for refurbishment. “We’re going for high reusability," said Bill Gerstenmaier, SpaceX's vice president of build and flight reliability. Read full article

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Comet of a century Tsuchinshan-ATLAS visible this weekend

A comet could be visible among the stars in the coming weeks if it is not too cloudy. This comet, C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS), flies past the Earth and was only discovered last year.

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Bicycle shed at Utrecht station closed due to construction cracks

The bicycle shed at the Jaarbeursplein near Utrecht Central Station will close on Friday evening because "cracks were found in the construction during an inspection", the municipality of Utrecht re

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Zuid-Holland village near Gouda changes its name to Cortelande

The new village to be built in the Zuid-Holland municipality of Zuidplas has been given the name Cortelande.

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Good chances for a restart of the Dunkin' Donuts chain in the Netherlands, says trustee

Derk van Geel, the trustee of the insolvent Dutch coffee and donut chain Dunkin', sees “good chances” for a successful restart. He expects this “complex process” to take several weeks.

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Fireworks set off at emergency shelter in Ugchelen

On Friday evening, there was a “very loud bang” in the still-empty emergency shelter in Ugchelen.

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Cargo ship collides with weir and sinks in the Meuse river near Maastricht

A cargo ship loaded with sand collided with a weir in the Meuse River near Maastricht at around 8:50 a.m. on Saturday and sank. No one on board was injured in the collision, according to L1 News.

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