Earth’s geomagnetic armor has a crack and is growing. A weak point in our planet’s magnetic field, located over the southern Atlantic Ocean, has grown in size over the past two centuries …
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Elsa-d, the world’s first trade mission to demonstrate a space debris removal system, is scheduled to launch at 06:07 GMT on March 20 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Developed by Astroscale, …
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Rocket Lab is considered a pioneer among a new generation of so-called small launch providers. Photo: Rocket Lab / Associated Press Space transportation startup Rocket Lab USA Inc. is on the verge …
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FILE PHOTO: After arriving on the red carpet for the Axel Springer Award, SpaceX owner and Tesla CEO Elon Musk debuted in Berlin, Germany on December 1, 2020. REUTERS / Hannibal Hanske …
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Sunday Morning, Virgin Orbit became the third privately funded American rocket company to reach Orbit and the only one to complete mid-air feats. The company’s liquid-fueled rocket called the launcher was released …
Read More »Launch of SpaceX Starlink satellites on November 24, 2020.The image: SpaceX SpaceX’s attempt to reduce the reflectivity of Starlink satellites is working, but not to the degree required by astronomers. According to …
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Japanese researchers said the satellites are working on technology that the extra space will use wood components to eliminate junk, allowing objects to be burned when re-ignited in the Earth’s atmosphere, according …
Read More »The image: Sumitomo Forestry Swimming around the Earth is a group of satellites. Cool for GPS, not so good for weather mood monitoring and internet-space junk. This is why Sumitomo Forestry and …
Read More »Conceptual image of the ClearSpace-1 mission. The image: Esa European Space Agency has signed a landmark agreement with Swiss beginningsClearspace to remove a single item of space debris in 2025. The $ …
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A dead Soviet satellite and an abandoned Chinese rocket body moved towards each other in space this week, but survived a catastrophic accident on Thursday night. Leolabs, a company that uses radar …
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