经济学人双语精读｜太空发射：捕捉木来

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点击文章末端“ 阅读原文 ” 获取完整电子版 （ PDF + Word + MP3音频） 每天分享一篇经济学人双语精读 全文翻译+全文注释+长难句分析 背景知识+写作技巧+短语+段落大意+词汇精析 本期同步音频 01 经济学人原文 Space launches ： Catching the future Starship  promises  to change what is possible beyond Earth 【 1 】 In any normal week, the biggest-ever  interplanetary probe  blasting off to look for signs of life in the depths of an  occult  ocean would hog the headlines about space. But the launch of Europa Clipper on October  14 th was  eclipsed ,  spectacularly , by the test flight the previous day of the Starship being developed by SpaceX, a launch  provider ,  satellite - communications supplier  and Mars- settlement enabler founded  and run by Elon Musk. Seven minutes after take-off a thin, waggling finger of rocket-fire  guided  the launcher's huge first stage back to its launchpad in Texas, there ………………………………