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Vulcan oven mitts, spaceship baking dishes, and an out-of-this-world communicator grater—you'll need warp speed to Klingon to this limited edition kitchen kit, ideal for perfecting the broth of Khan.
The intricate, 5.6 trillion-pixel map covers approximately 75 percent of the sky and includes about 4 billion celestial objects.
German company Isar Aerospace has successfully launched Europe's first entirely commercial orbital rocket. It attempted to achieve the feat last March, but that lasted all of 30 seconds before the vehicle crashed into the sea and exploded. This time the company managed to get the two-stage Spectrum into low Earth orbit from a Norwegian spaceport. […]
Prologue: Open the window and look at the sky 🌌 Right now, while you read this, multi-million euros satellites are passing over your head. Some of them are transmitting pictures of the Earth to anyone who cares to listen. Not to their partner companies. Not to governments. To anyone . The images go out unencrypted, raining down over whole continents on frequencies you can pull in with about 100 euros of hardware and a balcony facing the sky. That is true for Earth pictures, for weather data, aviation/maritime tracking, amateur radio, even videos from the International Space Station 🛰️! I didn't know that either... until I did! And when I did, I felt a new frontier opening up, like I could reach the stars for real, from my home. New space adventures and discoveries were expecting me, one satellite at a time. This is a story about reaching (weather imagery) satellites. It's also a story of how a "let me just try one thing" turned into a distributed ground station running across two countries, a dead laptop resurrected as a server, my dad on a ladder in Théding while I watch from Barcelona and, as I write this, a geostationary satellite drifting slowly across the sky toward the one spot that would let me receive it. The project isn't finished. I mean that literally: this article ends on a spacecraft that is still in motion. But I should introduce the cast first, because the difference between two kinds of satellite is the key to this whole project. Weather satellites come in two families. The first are polar orbiters 🛰️. They fly low, a few hundred kilometers up, and fast, looping North to South while the Earth turns underneath them, so they eventually pass over everywhere (over your home too! 👾). They're the ones I chase in this story: the Russian METEOR-M series, 800 km over our heads, broadcasting down in the VHF band around 137 MHz . The catch is they're only up there for about ten to fifteen minutes at a time. The satellite climbs out of the horizon, arcs over us,
"We achieved within a few years what had taken the European space industry decades before."
"Fundamentally, we want to learn about the origins of this planet and how it came to be like it is."
"Let me be clear: America is not only welcome—we want you there."
Two of Europe's leading launch startups announced new fundraising this week.
The mission to Phobos, Japan’s first Mars probe launch in 28 years, may reveal new information about our closest planetary neighbor.
The discovery adds to the planet’s history of strange atmospheric phenomena that scientists don’t full understand.
Users can search for emails or draft documents using the new conversational feature
"Requirements are being adjusted to reflect near-term mission needs."
He reported from space that only "fat" Japanese tree frogs enjoyed weightlessness.
At least three of the first 32 Rassvet satellites likely suffered outright failures, and more may be in trouble.
The company will create a high-performance Mars telecommunications orbiter for NASA by December 31, 2028
September is full of opportunities to expand your knowledge of the night sky. Mark your calendars.
A nonprofit organization called the Fermi Explorer Mission announced today that it intends to launch a spacecraft to our nearest star system by the end of 2029. It’s a hugely ambitious mission—if all goes well, the spacecraft could take up to 80,000 years to arrive at Alpha Centauri, which is 4.4 light-years away. And the…
Independent safety officials also have high praise for changes by NASA leadership.
NASA's cost estimate for SR-1 Freedom is $2.1 billion, but that doesn't include the helicopters.
"We could really be facing the great filter."