#China says SpaceX satellites nearly collided with space station

#China says SpaceX satellites nearly collided with space station

“#China says SpaceX satellites nearly collided with space station” China’s space station has twice been forced to take evasive action to avoid colliding with small satellites launched by Elon Musk’s SpaceX, the country said in a United Nations complaint.  In incidents in July and October, SpaceX satellites drifted perilously close to China’s space station, potentially…

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#Russia shoots down satellite in ‘debris-generating event’: US Space Command

#Russia shoots down satellite in ‘debris-generating event’: US Space Command

“#Russia shoots down satellite in ‘debris-generating event’: US Space Command” Newly released NASA recordings capture the dramatic moment the crew of the International Space Station was ordered to seek shelter as debris from an exploded Russian satellite closed in on the orbiting craft.  “Hey Mark, good morning,” Houston Mission Control woke up flight engineer Mark…

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#SpaceX buying satellite internet startup Swarm Technologies

#SpaceX buying satellite internet startup Swarm Technologies

“#SpaceX buying satellite internet startup Swarm Technologies” Elon Musk’s SpaceX is buying a satellite internet startup in a move to bolster its own Starlink internet business, according to regulatory filings.  SpaceX company plans to buy Mountain View, Calif.-based Swarm Technologies, the companies said in a filing with the Federal Communications Commission on Friday.  Swarm’s business…

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#NASA releases stunning image of Milky Way’s ‘downtown’

#NASA releases stunning image of Milky Way’s ‘downtown’

“#NASA releases stunning image of Milky Way’s ‘downtown’” The lights are much brighter in this “downtown.” NASA has released a stunning composite image of the Milky Way assembled by an astronomer who spent a year putting it together while stuck at home during the pandemic. Astronomer Daniel Wang of the University of Massachusetts Amherst told…

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#Europe pitches lunar satellites plan

#Europe pitches lunar satellites plan

“#Europe pitches lunar satellites plan” BERLIN — The European Space Agency presented a vision Thursday to put satellites in orbit around the moon that would facilitate future missions to Earth’s closest neighbor. The plan, dubbed “Moonlight,” would see ESA offer communications and navigation services to any country that wants to carry out lunar exploration missions….

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#Satellites show world’s glaciers melting faster than ever

#Satellites show world’s glaciers melting faster than ever

“#Satellites show world’s glaciers melting faster than ever” Glaciers are melting faster, losing 31 percent more snow and ice per year than they did 15 years earlier, according to three-dimensional satellite measurements of all the world’s mountain glaciers. Scientists blame human-caused climate change. Using 20 years of recently declassified satellite data, scientists calculated that the…

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#NASA satellite data could detect volcanic unrest years before eruptions

#NASA satellite data could detect volcanic unrest years before eruptions

“#NASA satellite data could detect volcanic unrest years before eruptions” New research methods using satellite data may be able to detect volcanic eruptions years in advance.  In a recent study published in the journal Nature Geoscience, researchers from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and the University of Alaska, Fairbanks said that large-scale thermal unrest measured using a statistical analysis of satellite-based long-wavelength infrared data revealed that the…

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#Alabama ‘supercell’ that produced tornado captured in satellite imagery

#Alabama ‘supercell’ that produced tornado captured in satellite imagery

“#Alabama ‘supercell’ that produced tornado captured in satellite imagery” This week’s severe weather in the Mid-South was visible from outer space.  Stunning imagery from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) GOES East satellite captured the Thursday “supercell” that produced a large tornado in Alabama near Brent and Centerville. “In the 16-second timelapse, you can see the lightning that accompanied the storm during March…

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