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New Mini-Moon 2024 PT5: A Major Step Towards Space Mining Opportunities
The newly discovered mini-moon, 2024 PT5, entered Earth's orbit on September 29, 2024, and will remain until November 25. This small asteroid, measuring around 10 metres, provides a unique opportunity for researchers to study near-Earth objects and explore the viability of space mining. Experts believe that asteroids contain precious metals, which ...
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SpaceX Crew Polaris Scheduled for First Private Spacewalking Mission Next Week
The Polaris crew -- a billionaire entrepreneur, a retired military fighter pilot and two SpaceX employees -- neared the end of more than two years of training for the mission, in which they will venture out of their Crew Dragon capsule in Earth's orbit for a tethered spacewalk.
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3 Russians Set World Record by Parachuting From Stratosphere To North Pole
Three Russians set a world record for parachuting from the Earth's stratosphere to North Pole last week in a mission that also served as a test of a new prototype communications system for use in the Arctic, an organiser of the venture told Reuters.
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ISRO Conducts 'Extremely Challenging' Controlled Re-Entry Experiment of Aged MT-1 Satellite
ISRO, or the Indian Space Research Organisation has announced that it carried out a controlled re-entry experiment of its aged Megha-Tropiques-1 (MT-1) satellite successfully. The final impact region estimated for the MT-1 satellite is in the deep Pacific Ocean, within the expected latitude and longitude boundaries, according to ISRO.
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Elon Musk Is Launching a Satellite That Will Let You Advertise on a Billboard in Space
Elon Musk is joining hands with a Canada-based startup to make advertising in space a reality. According to reports, the tech billionaire and the startup are working towards putting a billboard into low-Earth orbit. By next year, the team is aiming to send a satellite into space aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket that will enable advertising content t...
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Deutsche Telekom Tests Mobile Antenna in Earth’s Stratosphere
Deutsche Telekom said on Monday it had successfully tested an aerial base station in the earth's stratosphere, an innovation it hopes will bring mobile coverage to remote areas that are hard for ground-based networks to reach.
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Virgin Galactic Touches Space Again, Flying 90 Km Above Earth
Just over two months since its first venture to sub-orbital space, Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic has touched the edge of space for the second time, recording an altitude of 90 km above the Earth's surface.
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Very Old, Sophisticated Tools Found In India. So Who Made Them?
Humanity's origin story has gotten increasingly tangled in recent years: New discoveries suggest that Homo sapiens interacted and interbred with other species and ventured out of Africa in more than one wave. Researchers have compared the ancient world to J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle Earth - but instead of hobbits, dwarves and elves, our planet had mode...
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Earth Has a Constant Companion in the Form of a Tiny Asteroid: Study
"Since '2016 HO3' loops around our planet but never ventures very far away as we both go around the Sun, we refer to it as a quasi-satellite of Earth."
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NASA to Study Climate Change From the Sky
Starting 2015, NASA will send five new airborne field campaigns to the skies to investigate how long-range air pollution, warming ocean waters and fires in Africa affect our climate.
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Fishermen in Ganjam Afraid to Venture into Sea After Earthquake
Traditional fishermen in coastal villages in Ganjam district of Odisha have desisted from fishing following Wednesday's earthquake centered in Bay of Bengal which jolted the east coast, official sources said today.
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New Mini-Moon 2024 PT5: A Major Step Towards Space Mining Opportunities
The newly discovered mini-moon, 2024 PT5, entered Earth's orbit on September 29, 2024, and will remain until November 25. This small asteroid, measuring around 10 metres, provides a unique opportunity for researchers to study near-Earth objects and explore the viability of space mining. Experts believe that asteroids contain precious metals, which ...
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SpaceX Crew Polaris Scheduled for First Private Spacewalking Mission Next Week
The Polaris crew -- a billionaire entrepreneur, a retired military fighter pilot and two SpaceX employees -- neared the end of more than two years of training for the mission, in which they will venture out of their Crew Dragon capsule in Earth's orbit for a tethered spacewalk.
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3 Russians Set World Record by Parachuting From Stratosphere To North Pole
Three Russians set a world record for parachuting from the Earth's stratosphere to North Pole last week in a mission that also served as a test of a new prototype communications system for use in the Arctic, an organiser of the venture told Reuters.
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ISRO Conducts 'Extremely Challenging' Controlled Re-Entry Experiment of Aged MT-1 Satellite
ISRO, or the Indian Space Research Organisation has announced that it carried out a controlled re-entry experiment of its aged Megha-Tropiques-1 (MT-1) satellite successfully. The final impact region estimated for the MT-1 satellite is in the deep Pacific Ocean, within the expected latitude and longitude boundaries, according to ISRO.
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Elon Musk Is Launching a Satellite That Will Let You Advertise on a Billboard in Space
Elon Musk is joining hands with a Canada-based startup to make advertising in space a reality. According to reports, the tech billionaire and the startup are working towards putting a billboard into low-Earth orbit. By next year, the team is aiming to send a satellite into space aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket that will enable advertising content t...
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Deutsche Telekom Tests Mobile Antenna in Earth’s Stratosphere
Deutsche Telekom said on Monday it had successfully tested an aerial base station in the earth's stratosphere, an innovation it hopes will bring mobile coverage to remote areas that are hard for ground-based networks to reach.
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Virgin Galactic Touches Space Again, Flying 90 Km Above Earth
Just over two months since its first venture to sub-orbital space, Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic has touched the edge of space for the second time, recording an altitude of 90 km above the Earth's surface.
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Very Old, Sophisticated Tools Found In India. So Who Made Them?
Humanity's origin story has gotten increasingly tangled in recent years: New discoveries suggest that Homo sapiens interacted and interbred with other species and ventured out of Africa in more than one wave. Researchers have compared the ancient world to J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle Earth - but instead of hobbits, dwarves and elves, our planet had mode...
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Earth Has a Constant Companion in the Form of a Tiny Asteroid: Study
"Since '2016 HO3' loops around our planet but never ventures very far away as we both go around the Sun, we refer to it as a quasi-satellite of Earth."
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NASA to Study Climate Change From the Sky
Starting 2015, NASA will send five new airborne field campaigns to the skies to investigate how long-range air pollution, warming ocean waters and fires in Africa affect our climate.
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Fishermen in Ganjam Afraid to Venture into Sea After Earthquake
Traditional fishermen in coastal villages in Ganjam district of Odisha have desisted from fishing following Wednesday's earthquake centered in Bay of Bengal which jolted the east coast, official sources said today.
