How satellites revolutionised climate change science
From space, scientists can track everything from sea levels or greenhouse gases to infectious bacteria or water stored ...
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Rocket Lab launches sharp-eyed Earth-observation satellite toward orbit
"Fasten Your Space Belts" could be part of a spaceflight one-two punch today. SpaceX plans to launch yet another batch of its Starlink internet satellites today, during a nearly 3.5-hour window that ...
Mission accomplished for space telescope Gaia
The space telescope Gaia has created the largest three-dimensional map of the Milky Way ever. On January 15, 2025, Gaia shut ...
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Nokia is putting the first cellular network on the moon
But the mission will also bring something that’s never been installed on the moon or anywhere else in space before—a fully ...
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Capella Space Eyes Late 2026 For Next-Generation Satellite Deployment
“We will move beyond SAR,” Capella Space CEO Frank Backes said Feb. 16 on the sidelines of the International Defense Conference here in Abu Dhabi. The new satellites will come with a software-defined ...
Meet Trailblazer: A Spunky NASA Probe on a Mission to Map the Moon’s Water
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory described the complicated maneuver that will get the Trailblazer in a position to reach ...
'Goodbye Earth, hello moon': What Blue Ghost lander has been up to in NASA mission
The lander, Blue Ghost, fired its engines for four minutes Thursday to propel the spacecraft into lunar orbit ahead of a ...
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Doubts Emerge Over NASA’s VIPER Public/Private Partnership Strategy
His skepticism is shared by Andrew Chanin, CEO of ProcureAm, which initiated the first global exchange-traded fund providing investors with “pure-play” access to an expanding space economy. The fund’s ...
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Astronomers realize mysterious TV signal in their data bounced off an airplane
The sky is awash with radio-frequency interference (RFI), but thanks to two astronomers who tracked down a stray TV broadcast ...
Director who led Marshall Space Flight Center during Challenger disaster dead at 102
President Ronald Reagan immediately appointed a commission to investigate and report on the circumstances that led up to the ...
Do You Need to Worry About an Asteroid Hitting Earth?
It measures 130 to 300 feet across, a pebble compared to the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs, which is estimated to have ...
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VIPER back from the dead? NASA asks US companies to partner on ice-hunting moon rover
NASA's ice-hunting VIPER rover could fly to the moon after all — with some help from the private sector. The agency announced on Monday (Feb. 3) that it's seeking proposals from U.S. companies to ...