A ‘Google Maps’ for Low-Earth Orbit?: Wknd interviews the founders of space-tech start-up Digantara
Their first tracker is now in orbit. They plan to use a series of these to generate live maps of satellites big and small, fragments from old vessels, and debris as small as 5 cm.
NASA’s Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore finally return home after more than nine months in space
NASA’s Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore have returned to Earth from a weeklong mission at the International Space Station that ...
NASA and SpaceX Are Building the Most Advanced Space Station Ever – In Lunar Orbit
NASA's Artemis campaign is rapidly advancing the development of Gateway, a space station that will orbit the Moon and serve ...
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Climate Change Is Shrinking Space For Satellites To Orbit
The study, published in Nature Sustainability, focuses on the thermosphere, a high-altitude atmospheric layer where most satellites and the International Space Station orbit. As greenhouse gases ...
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How long have the Starliner astronauts been in space? Not as long as these 5 spacefarers.
As of Friday, Williams and Wilmore have spent 281 days at the International Space Station. The astronauts, who are both on their third trip to orbit, were selected to pilot the Boeing Starliner ...