After four years and more than $2 billion in funding, OneWeb is ready to launch the first six satellites out of a planned constellation of 650 with which it plans to blanket the world in broadband. The Arianespace-operated Soyuz rocket will take off at 1:37 Pacific time from Guiana Space Center.
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As rocket companies proliferate, new enabling tech emerges as the next wave in the space race
Blue Origin, Rocket Lab, Relativity Space, Slingshot Aeropsace, SpaceX and Virgin Orbit have raised billions of dollars to create new vehicles to launch payloads into space, but as the private space industry develops in the U.S. investors are beginning to back enabling technologies boost the next wave of innovation. Whether it’s satellite manufacturers, new propulsion […]
View More As rocket companies proliferate, new enabling tech emerges as the next wave in the space raceNASA’s climate-monitoring space laser is the last to ride to space on a Delta II rocket
This weekend, NASA is launching a new, high-tech satellite to monitor the planet’s glacier and sea ice levels — with space lasers, naturally. ICESat-2 will be a huge boon for climatologists, and it’s also a bittersweet occasion: it will be the final launch aboard the trusty Delta II rocket, which has been putting birds in the air for nearly 30 years.
View More NASA’s climate-monitoring space laser is the last to ride to space on a Delta II rocketAstronaut captures photos of ominous-looking Hurricane Florence from space
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On Wednesday, Hurricane Florence became the first major hurricane of the 2018 season in the Atlantic Ocean.
On Thursday, astronauts saw the ominous storm swirling from space.
NASA astronaut Ricky Arnold captured images of Florence as it strengthened on Thursday from his post on the International Space Station.
“#HurricaneFlorence strengthens in the early morning hours over the Atlantic,” Arnold said on Twitter.
In the photos, Florence seems massive, albeit somewhat disorganized since the hurricane’s eye isn’t immediately noticeable and the storm has lost some of it’s symmetry. Read more…
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What goes up must come down. That’s generally the rule, anyway, certainly for spacecraft that have fulfilled their purpose and have no way to stay in orbit. Such is the case of Tiangong-1, China’s first space station, which after nearly 7 years in space is making an uncontrolled descent and should provide a nice fiery light show in the skies over… somewhere.
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Rocket launch startup Rocket Lab is moving from its initial testing phase into proper commercial operations with its next mission. The company’s past two launches, “It’s a Test” and “Still Testing” were (you guessed it) primarily tests of its Electron launch craft vehicle and launch process, but its next mission, dubbed “It’s Business Time” (kudos […]
The moon’s getting a mobile data network
Think of the roaming charges: The moon (yes, our orbital natural satellite) is getting a mobile network. Said network will make it possible to stream HD video live back to earth from the moon’s surface, since I guess space streaming is all the rage following Elon Musk’s Starman stunt. The network will be put together by a group that includes carrier Vodafone Germany, hardware… Read More
Watch SpaceX launch its first broadband internet satellites to space live here
SpaceX is making a second attempt to launch its PAZ mission today, which includes the PAZ satellite from client Hisdesat, and is set for launch during an instantaneous window at 6:17 AM PST, or 9:17 AM EST. The mission was scrubbed on Wednesday d…
View More Watch SpaceX launch its first broadband internet satellites to space live hereAstronomers really hate that bright disco ball satellite secretly launched to space
On Thursday, the rocket company Rocket Lab announced that it had secretly launched the Humanity Star, a satellite in the shape of a reflective sphere that effectively works as a disco ball and could at times become the brightest object in the night s…
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