Tropical Storm Jerry is the latest in a line of tropical cyclones to develop in the North Atlantic Ocean this season. NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite passed overhead and provided forecasters with a view of its structure that helped confirm it was...
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Boyajian's Star is ripping an orphaned satellite to shreds, according to the latest hypothesis.
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Using data from ESA's Gaia satellite, German astronomers have detected a new open cluster in the Milky Way galaxy. The newly found cluster, designated Gaia 8, consists of about 100 stars, most likely including the Beta Lyrae variable. The finding is...
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Could Space X finally give the busted US telecom sector a much needed kick in the ass? Since 2017, Musk's Space X has been promising that it would launch 800 low orbit satellites capable of delivering cheaper, lower latency broadband to large swaths...
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The space habitat development company Bigelow Aerospace tweeted on Tuesday that two inoperative satellites, the US’s Genesis II and Russia’s Soviet-era Cosmos 1300, might collide.
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SpaceX, the rocket company founded by Elon Musk, plans to surround Earth a gigantic network of internet-providing satellites called Starlink.
In May, Musk said if Starlink can get a few percent of the global telecommunications market, SpaceX could...
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NASA's Terra Satellite provided a visible image of Hurricane Humberto when it was off the coast of the Carolinas and slowly moving north. The satellite image revealed that Humberto is a very large storm.
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The US military is trying to solve a space problem: Its most valuable satellites are huge, unprotected, and everyone knows where they are.
With Russia, China and even India demonstrating anti-satellite weapons, the space tech that keeps...
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At the Defcon hacking conference next year, the Air Force will bring a satellite for fun and glory.
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The first launch of UK communications satellites OneWeb from Russia's Baikonur Cosmodrome is tentatively scheduled for December 19, a spokesperson for Russian State Space Corporation Roscosmos told Sputnik.
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NASA's Aqua satellite provided forecasters at the National Hurricane Center with infrared data and cloud top temperature information on Hurricane Kiko. Wind shear was affecting the storm and had closed the eye.
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Humanity had barely taken its first tentative steps into space with primitive satellites when amateur radio operators began planning their first satellites. Barely four years after Sputnik’s brief but momentous launch and against all odds,...
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Satellite Images Reveal It Would Take "Months" To Fix Saudi Oil Facility
And there it is, moments before oil markets open: upon the US release of declassified satellite images showing precision strikes on critical spheroids at the...
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The Orbiting Carbon Observatory satellite makes precise measurements of Earth’s carbon dioxide levels from space.
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Jason West, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
I am often asked how carbon dioxide can have an...
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The market for small satellites -- and the small rockets to launch them -- is hot, hot, hot!Hardly a month goes by without some new development in this space, whether it's Rocket Lab reaching a new milestone in small rockets launched, or one of Sir...
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Google Maps is a powerful tool if you need to know exactly how to get somewhere, but when a car was spotted in a residential pond using Google's high-flying satellites in late August, it shed light on a mystery far more intense than finding the...
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Daesh* remnants had been using the bombed island as "a hotel" or transit hub on their way from Iraq to Syria and back, according to US and Iraqi military officials.
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WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - NASA has announced its plans to launch a tiny satellite as early as December 2020 to test the elongated orbit planned for the US Lunar Gateway.
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A missing persons case from 1997 has been solved thanks to Google Maps.
While looking at satellite imagery provided in the app, a Google user discovered an image of a car in a pond in Wellington, Florida. When the car was excavated, the skeletal...
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Russian state space corporation Roscosmos is working on a cheaper version of the Soyuz rocket to cut launch costs for commercial satellites, Russian space travel operator Glavkosmos (GK) Launch Services CEO Alexander Serkin said.
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