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NASA Is Getting Really Serious About Tracking Air Pollution
It will also be able to track variations in pollution at the neighborhood scale. Lefer foresees this being especially useful for exposing environmental injustice, since lower income and …
Airplanes face a growing risk of being hit by uncontrolled re-entries of rockets used…
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On May 11, 2020, a deadly threat flew from Los Angeles…
What Time Is It on the Moon?
This is where Moonlight will come in. The system may involve three navigation satellites in lunar orbit plus one dedicated to communication. That way, multiple satellites can ping Earth at…
How Satellites, Space Junk May Brighten Night Skies and Hinder Astronomy
Since time immemorial, humans around the world have gazed up in wonder at the night sky. The starry night sky has not only inspired countless works of music, art, and poetry but has also…
Explanation for unusual radar signatures of icy satellites in the outer solar system:…
A study co-authored by Southwest Research Institute Senior Research Scientist Dr. Jason Hofgartner explains the unusual radar signatures of icy satellites orbiting Jupiter and Saturn. Their…
OneWeb to Launch 36 Satellites, Complete First-Gen LEO Constellation
OneWeb, the low-earth orbit (LEO) satellite communications company backed by Bharti Enterprises, plans to launch 36 satellites with ISRO on March 26.This launch, taking place from the Satish…
Tiny, Explosive ‘Jetlets’ Might Be Fueling the Solar Wind
Streaming out of the sun at a million miles an hour, the solar wind—a blistering plasma of electrons, protons, and ions flowing through space—is a decades-old enigma. Scientists know it once…
Half of all active satellites are now from SpaceX. Here’s why that may be a…
SpaceX’s rapidly growing fleet of Starlink internet satellites now make up half of all active satellites in Earth orbit.
On February 27, the aerospace company launched 21 new…
SpaceX just launched its first V2 Mini Starlink satellites
Roberto Machado Noa/Getty ImagesSpaceX has launched the first set of its second generation Starlink satellites following its recent authorization by the Federal Communications…