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'This is really intolerable': Astronomers protest giant orbiting mirror project and SpaceX's million AI satellites

"It's absolutely the destruction of a central part of human heritage." ...

'Vulnerable' satellites guide the world — and its wars

From smartphone maps to precision weapons, satellite navigation underpins modern life and war. Global Navigation Satellite Systems have become indispensable, and that's made them vulnerable to ...
Android Police

Google Translate splits its features into handy one-tap widgets

Karandeep Singh Oberoi is a Durham College Journalism and Mass Media graduate who joined the Android Police team in April 2024, after serving as a full-time News Writer at Canadian publication ...

NASA's 1,300-pound Van Allen Probe A blazes back to Earth, splashes down in Pacific after 14 years in orbit

Weighing just over 1,300 pounds, the satellite blazed through Earth's atmosphere and splashed down in the eastern Pacific ...
CNET

A 1,300-Pound NASA Satellite Just Made a Fiery Return to Earth

All things that go up must eventually come down. NASA says that its Van Allen Probe A satellite has fallen precipitously back to Earth after a 14-year journey through space. The probe reentered the ...
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Startup wants to launch mirrors up into space to light up the dark side of Earth

A startup called Reflect Orbital wants to send thousands of mirrors up into space to bounce sunlight to the dark side of the planet. NBC News’ Tom Costello speaks to the CEO Ben Nowack on how he plans ...
New Scientist

A glimpse into the rare earth riches of Greenland

Under ultraviolet light, these sodalite stones at the Kvanefjeld mineral deposit in southern Greenland glow with an eerie luminescence against a gloomy mountainous backdrop. The shot was taken by ...
FOX8 Cleveland

NASA: 1,300-pound spacecraft expected to re-enter Earth’s atmosphere

(WJW) – A 1,300-pound spacecraft is expected to re-enter the Earth’s atmosphere this week, but the chances of anyone getting hurt are very small, NASA announced on Monday. NASA’s Van Allen Probe A was ...
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1,300-pound NASA satellite expected to re-enter Earth’s atmosphere tonight

The Van Allen Probe A, a 1,323-pound NASA satellite that once studied how the Van Allen radiation belts protect the planet from cosmic radiation and space weather, is expected to re-enter Earth’s ...
FOX8 Cleveland

NASA spacecraft expected to re-enter the Earth’s atmosphere after 14 years

(WJW) – A retired NASA spacecraft weighing about 1,300 pounds is expected to re-enter the atmosphere Tuesday, nearly 14 years after it was launched. NASA’s Van Allen Probe A is predicted to re-enter ...
KVIA

1,300-pound satellite expected to re-enter Earth’s atmosphere tonight

A 1,323-pound NASA satellite that once studied how the Van Allen radiation belts protect the planet from cosmic radiation and space weather is expected to re-enter Earth's atmosphere Tuesday at ...
Des Moines Register

NASA satellite to crash to Earth after 14 years in space. What to know

The probe was one of two launched in 2012 from Florida to study Earth's hazardous Van Allen radiation belts. NASA states that while some components may survive re-entry, the risk of harm to anyone on ...