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Kacific supports Vodafone PNG for new mobile network into rural areas
Kacific Broadband Satellites Group (Kacific) has partnered with Vodafone PNG to deploy the satellite operator's Mobile Backhaul services, helping to greatly expand Vodafone PNG's voice and 3G/4G data network into rural areas of Papua New Guinea.
Vodafone PNG based in Papua New Guinea, part of the Amalgamated Telecom Holdings (ATH) Group of companies from Fiji, successfully launched in Apri STARCOM executes first JNTC-accredited, largest SPACE FLAG exercise ever
Space Training and Readiness Command completed its first exercise iteration of SPACE FLAG (SPACE FLAG 22-3) since being accredited by the Joint Staff as a Joint National Training Capability.
SPACE FLAG is the first Department of Defense space exercise to receive JNTC-accreditation, joining the likes of the U.S. Air Force's Red Flag and Green Flag exercises, as well as the U.S. Army's Joint US Space Force SSC's GEO Wide Field of View On Orbit
The United States Space Force Space Systems Command's Geosynchronous Earth Orbit Wide Field of View Testbed is online and the bus checkout is complete.
The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory's Blossom Point Tracking Facility successfully acquired WFOV and is operating the satellite. Data is processed through Blossom Point and coordinated with Space Control Network.
"First acquisition was righ DARPA selects SpaceLink to participate in its program to connect the proliferated space domain
SpaceLink, a company that provides secure data from any orbit, any time, announced it was selected by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Strategic Technology Office (STO) for a contract award. SpaceLink will participate in the Space-Based Adaptive Communications Node (Space-BACN) program designed to connect the proliferated space domain.
SpaceLink is building a constella What are wormholes? An astrophysicist explains these shortcuts through space-time
Imagine two towns on two opposite sides of a mountain. People from these towns would probably have to travel all the way around the mountain to visit one another. But, if they wanted to get there faster, they could dig a tunnel straight through the mountain to create a shortcut. That's the idea behind a wormhole.
A wormhole is like a tunnel between two distant points in our universe that c 'Long time coming': NASA 'a go' for launch of Artemis test mission to moon
NASA says it's set to launch the first test flight Monday of its long-anticipated mission that will return U.S. astronauts to the moon for the first time in 50 years.
The Artemis 1 mission is scheduled for liftoff from Kennedy Space Center in Florida after 8:30 a.m. Monday within a two-hour window, the agency said in a briefing Monday.
The mission is the first test of the newly m Europe to support Artemis CubeSats in return to the Moon
Drought causes Yangtze to shrink
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A record-breaking drought has caused parts of the Yangtze River to dry up – affecting hydropower, shipping routes and limiting drinking water supplies. Images captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission show a comparison of the Yangtze and Jialing rivers, near Chongqing, over the last three years. An overview of NASA's Artemis 1 mission to the Moon
NASA's Artemis 1 mission, scheduled to take off on Monday, is a 42-day voyage beyond the far side of the Moon and back.
The meticulously choreographed uncrewed flight should yield spectacular images as well as valuable scientific data.
Blastoff
The giant Space Launch System rocket will make its maiden flight from Launch Complex 39B at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Its four RS-25 engines, with two white boosters on either side, will produce 8.8 million pounds (39 meganewtons) of thrust—15 percent more than the Apollo program's Saturn V rocket.
After two minutes, the thrusters will fall back into the Atlantic Ocean.
After eight minutes, the core stage, orange in color, will fall away in turn, leaving the Orion crew capsule attached to the interim cryogenic propulsion stage.
All systems go for Artemis 1 mission to Moon
Fifty years after the last Apollo mission, the Artemis program is poised to take up the baton of lunar exploration with a test launch on Monday of NASA's most powerful rocket ever.
The goal is to return humans to the Moon for the first time since the last Apollo mission in 1972—and eventually to Mars.
The 322-foot (98-meter) Space Launch System (SLS) rocket is scheduled to blast off at 8:33 am (1233 GMT) from the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida.
The mission, more than a decade in the planning, may be uncrewed, but is highly symbolic for NASA, which has been under pressure from China and private rivals such as SpaceX.
Hotels around Cape Canaveral are booked solid with between 100,000 and 200,000 spectators expected to attend the launch.
The massive orange-and-white rocket has been sitting on KSC's Launch Complex 39B for a week.