This Gargantuan Lab Simulates Blasting Satellites Into Space
Satellites go through a lot. As they hurtle around our planet at up to 17,000 miles an hour they must cope with the extreme vacuum of space and vast temperature …
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Spacecom Satellite Technology: China will launch first satellites of constellation to rival Starlink, newspaper reports
BEIJING: A Chinese state-owned enterprise is close to launching the first batch of satellites for a mega constellation designed to rival US company Space X’s Starlink‘s near-global internet network, a …
May solar superstorm triggered largest satellite ‘mass migration’ in history
In a pre-print paper published on arXiv on June 12, researchers reported that during the intense four-day solar storm in May, satellites and space debris in low Earth orbit experienced …
Electronic Warfare Is Screwing Up Food Delivery Apps And ‘Find My’ Location Tracking In The Middle East
Signal jammers used to disrupt satellite-guided drones and missiles in the Middle East have also thrown planes and ships around Cyprus off course since the start of the war in …
Nasa’s about to lose its eyes on Earth & scientists are worried
Sometime in the next few years – no one knows exactly when – three Nasa satellites, each one as heavy as an elephant, will go dark. Already they are drifting, …
Satellite built by N.B. students not responding a week after entering Earth’s orbit
Hundreds of post-secondary students in New Brunswick are patiently waiting for a call from Satellite Violet. The student-built project took more than five years to develop at campuses across the …
Nasa satellite’s ‘shocking’ space junk near-miss was even closer than thought
NEW DELHI: Nasa’s TIMED spacecraft and the defunct Russian spy satellite Cosmos 2221 experienced an alarmingly close encounter in orbit, space.com reported. Initial estimates suggested that the two satellites passed …
Space Force Is Planning a Military Exercise in Orbit
The Victus Haze mission is more complicated than Victus Nox, involving two prime contractors, two spacecraft, and two rocket launches from different spaceports, all timed to occur with short timelines …
Global space economy to be worth $1.8 trillion by 2035, shows World Economic Forum report
Bengaluru: A new report by the World Economic Forum (WEF) released Monday projects that the global space economy will be worth $1.8 trillion by the year 2035, almost rivaling the size …
Japan working on 1st ever biodegradable satellite, made of magnolia wood
Bengaluru: Scientists and engineers from Kyoto University, in collaboration with the logging company Sumitomo Forestry, are creating the first biodegradable satellite that will be made of wood, called LignoSat. The …