Amazon unveils Project Kuiper terminals for services starting in 2024
Tuesday, 14 March 2023 13:39
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Although still weeks out from launching its first pair of prototype satellites, Amazon unveiled user terminals March 14 for a planned 3,200-satellite broadband constellation it expects will start providing beta services from low Earth orbit next year.
Mix-and-match kit could enable astronauts to build a menagerie of lunar exploration bots
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When astronauts begin to build a permanent base on the moon, as NASA plans to do in the coming years, they'll need help. Robots could potentially do the heavy lifting by laying cables, deploying solar panels, erecting communications towers, and building habitats. But if each robot is designed for a specific action or task, a moon base could become overrun by a zoo of machines, each with its own unique parts and protocols.
Satellite manufacturers continue to diversify
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Companies with a history of manufacturing large geostationary satellites have succeeded in diversifying their product lines to attract new customers.
As DoD pivots to smaller satellites, Congress airdrops a big one into the budget
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The U.S. Defense Department’s head of space acquisitions circulated a memo last fall calling for the Pentagon to embrace a faster, more commercial approach to building satellites.
ExoMars rover testing moves ahead and deep down
Tuesday, 14 March 2023 09:42
Carbon dioxide monitoring mission in development
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The pressure is on to reduce the amount of greenhouse gases we pump into the atmosphere – but the race is also on to support the monitoring that shows if targets are being met. Being developed by ESA on behalf of the EU, the new Copernicus Anthropogenic Carbon Dioxide Monitoring mission, or CO2M for short, is destined to be Europe’s prime mission for monitoring and tracking carbon dioxide emissions from human activity. CO2M is currently planned as a two-satellite mission, each of which will carry a near-infrared and shortwave-infrared spectrometer to measure atmospheric carbon dioxide at high
Landmark quantum breakthrough paves way to unravel deepest mysteries of universe
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One of the first practical applications of the much-hyped but little-used quantum computing technology is now within reach, thanks to a unique approach that sidesteps the major problem of scaling up such prototypes.
The invention, by a University of Bristol physicist, who gave it the name 'counterportation', provides the first-ever practical blueprint for creating in the lab a wormhole tha Millions of galaxies emerge in new simulated images from Roman Space Telescope
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Scientists have created a gargantuan synthetic survey that shows what we can expect from the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope's future observations. Though it represents just a small chunk of the real future survey, this simulated version contains a staggering number of galaxies - 33 million of them, along with 200,000 foreground stars in our home galaxy.
The simulation will help scientis NASA releases detailed map of upcoming eclipses
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NASA has released a detailed map of where solar eclipses will be visible in 2023 and 2024.
Data from multiple past NASA missions was used to create the map and calculate the position of the moon's shadow during upcoming annular and total eclipses that will be visible in parts of the United States in October 2023 and April 2024.
Orange ovals on the map represent locations where an Chandra helps astronomers discover a surprisingly lonely galaxy
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This image features a galaxy called 3C 297 that is lonelier than expected after it likely pulled in and absorbed its former companion galaxies, as described in our latest press release. The solo galaxy is located about 9.2 billion light-years from Earth and contains a quasar, a supermassive black hole pulling in gas at the center of the galaxy and driving powerful jets of matter seen in radio wa OneWeb confirms successful deployment of 40 satellites launched with SpaceX
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OneWeb, the low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite communications company,has confirmed the successful deployment and contact of 40 satellites launched by SpaceX from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
Lift-off took place on Thursday, March 9, 2023, at 2:13pm ET (local). OneWeb's satellites separated successfully from the rocket and were dispensed using three separation groups over a Hughes and Stargroup extend mobile networks in Mexico
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Hughes Network Systems reports that Stargroup, a Mexican telecommunications, has selected the Hughes JUPITER System and managed satellite broadband to extend LTE service to customers in rural communities. As part of the Mexican government's Comision Federal de Electricidad (CFE) Telecomunicaciones e Internet para Todos initiative to help bridge the digital divide, Stargroup is connecting hundred Space-bound heart tissue to aid aging and long-flight studies
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Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers are collaborating with NASA to send human heart "tissue-on-a-chip" specimens into space as early as March. The project is designed to monitor the tissue for changes in heart muscle cells' mitochondria (their power supply) and ability to contract in low-gravity conditions.
The tissue samples will be launched into space aboard SpaceX CRS-27, a resupply miss Sure South Atlantic picks Intelsat to connect three British Island Territories
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Intelsat, operator of one of the world's largest integrated satellite and terrestrial networks, and Sure South Atlantic, an international telecommunications service provider, have signed an expanded agreement to enable Sure to improve the capability and reliability of communications for residents of the Falkland Islands, Saint Helena and Ascension Island in the South Atlantic Ocean.
As the EMURGO Africa and Kepple Africa establish JV to further Web3 partnership
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EMURGO Africa and Kepple Africa Ventures has announced the establishment of a business joint venture EMURGO Kepple Ventures to further accelerate its strategic partnership investing in African Web3 businesses. EMURGO Africa and Kepple signed an MoU in September 2022 to jointly spearhead Web3 investment opportunities including token investments in Africa. Despite recent challenges such as the cry