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A new space race could turn our atmosphere into a 'crematorium for satellites'
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World-first gigabit-per-second laser link between aircraft and geostationary satellite
Faster, more secure connections from space could one day make broadband on planes, ships and even remote roads as easy as turning on a light. The European Space Agency (ESA), Airbus Defence and Space, the Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (TNO) and German payload manufacturer TESAT (as subcontractor) successfully connected an aircraft to a geostationary satellite using laser communications, bringing people closer to seamless, high‑speed connections in daily life.
Why Mars astronauts need more than just space greenhouses
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NASA moves its Artemis II moon rocket off the launch pad for more repairs
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Students kick off experiments on ESA’s flat floor
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Students kick off experiments on ESA’s flat floor Connecting a jacket to space to save lives
The future of satellite-connected wearables is closer to becoming an everyday reality thanks to the world’s first-ever two-way S-band connectivity from a wearable antenna with a geostationary satellite. In autumn 2025, a team climbed mount Halti to test the antenna’s capabilities. Developed by Finnish company Stealthcase, with support from the European Space Agency (ESA) and in collaboration with Radientum, the innovative antenna was integrated into a jacket by outdoor clothing brand HALTI. The demonstration paves the way for reliable communication for
Brain learns faster from rare rewards than from repetition
More than a century after Pavlov trained dogs to link a bell with food, neuroscientists at the University of California, San Francisco report that the brain may rely more on the timing of rewards than on sheer repetition when forming associative memories of cues and outcomes. Their work suggests that what matters for learning is how far apart cue-reward experiences are spaced in time, rather tha Infleqtion lists shares on NYSE as neutral atom quantum firm
Infleqtion, a provider of neutral atom based quantum computing and sensing systems, has completed its business combination with Churchill Capital Corp X and is now listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol INFQ. The company describes itself as well capitalized, reporting more than 550 million dollars in gross proceeds from the transaction, including nearly all of the cash hel Superconducting thruster cuts power and mass for space propulsion
Small satellites have become attractive for space missions because they offer low cost and flexibility, but their growth has been limited by the lack of compact, efficient propulsion systems that work well in the vacuum of space. In orbit, spacecraft can only change their motion through reaction force, and traditional chemical rockets produce thrust by burning fuel to generate high temperature g Seafloor weathering may explain ancient global glaciation puzzle
In Earth history, a few episodes stand out for their extreme cold, when geologic evidence indicates that ice covered the planet from pole to pole during so-called Snowball Earth events. These episodes represent some of the coldest conditions the planet has ever experienced, with the entire surface essentially below the freezing point of water. Scientists link the onset and end of these global gl