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According to the BBC, the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) in Chile has traced the distribution of dark matter “on a quarter of the sky and across almost 14 billion years of time.” From the report: In the image [here], the colored areas are the portio…
Loft Federal and Microsoft [MSFT] will join Ball Aerospace [BLL] to work on its Space Development Agency (SDA) contract for the experimental testbed NExT for 10 satellites. SDA awarded Ball Aerospace the NExT contract in […]
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“So we’re trying to have a full integrated picture from device to transport…to the cloud environment or the hosting environment where we can do our actual work,” Col. Jennifer Krolikowski said.
Two decades ago, few in the U.S. defense community considered using commercial satellite services for national security missions. Nor did they envision a future where thousands of small systems in […]
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schwit1 shares a report from Inverse: On March 23, sky observers marveled at a gorgeous display of northern and southern lights. It was a reminder that when our Sun gets active, it can spark a phenomenon called “space weather.” Aurorae are among the mo…
The U.S. Space Force intends to bolster its satellite communications capacity through the use of electronically-steered phased array antennas for the DoD Satellite Control Network (SCN), and a new Government […]
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“The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a new stunning image of ice giant Uranus, with almost all its faint dusty rings on display,” reports CNN:
The image is representative of the telescope’s significant sensitivity, NASA said, as the fainter ri…
The search for life beyond Earth “follows the water,” reports the Economist (since water is vital for earth’s lifeforms, and the laws of chemistry are universal). “For most of the space age that insight led scientists to Mars.” But…
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SpaceX plans to carry out a launch rehearsal next week of Starship, the most powerful rocket ever built, and its first test flight possibly the following week, the private space company said Thursday. Phys.Org reports: SpaceX published photos of the ma…
“So, what worries me most is China’s use of space to complete the kill chain necessary to generate long-range precision strikes against the maritime and air components scheme of maneuver. That’s what concerns me the most,” Brig….