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UK working with global partners to clear up dangerous space debris

Oct 27, 2021 (SPX)

Orbital congestion and space debris remains one of the biggest global challenges facing the space sector. There are currently an estimated 900,000 pieces of spa...

Scientists discover plastic-like material that conducts like metal

Oct 27, 2021 (UPI)

The report, published in the Oct. 27 issue of Nature, describes a material that does not conform to the common molecular framework of other known conductors. Cl...

When spacecraft explode, this engineer looks for answers in the debris left behind

Oct 27, 2021 (SPX)

Since 1957, there have been more than 570 incidents of spacecraft fragmenting in Earth's orbit because they exploded, detonated or collided with each other. Com...

Microsoft quarterly earnings surge on cloud computing

Oct 26, 2021 (AFP)

The US tech titan said it made a profit of $20.5 billion in the recently ended quarter on revenue that climbed to $45.3 billion in a 22 percent increase from th...

UK spy chiefs seal cloud data deal with Amazon: FT

Oct 26, 2021 (AFP)

The secret contract was signed this year and experts estimate its value at 500 million pounds ($690 million) to 1 billion pounds, the newspaper said, citing peo...

Proba-1 marks 20 years of orbital operations

Oct 25, 2021 (ESA)

But, once in orbit, that same small satellite quickly proved to be not so little in its capabilities. Today, twenty years on Proba-1, which was intended to surv...

A world without access to space

Oct 25, 2021 (SPX)

Just over the past 18 months the population of low-orbiting active satellites has grown from 1,918 to several thousand. And, this is only the beginning of popul...

International Space Station maneuvers to avoid debris

Oct 25, 2021 (UPI)

"This evening, the International Space Station's Progress 81 thrusters fired for 5 minutes, 5 seconds in a Pre-Determined Debris Avoidance Maneuver to provide t...

Most plastics aren't recyclable, Greenpeace finds

Oct 24, 2021 (UPI)

Greenpeace found that only about 5% of the discarded plastic is recycled. That means about 5 million tons of plastic winds up in landfills and waterways each ye...

In-Orbit cloud computing and storage platform successfully demonstrated

Oct 21, 2021 (SPX)

This first iteration of the system has been built in collaboration with Swedish-based AI company Unibap on top of their radiation-tolerant iX5-100 SpaceCloud pl...

Laser Communications Relay Demonstration gears up for launch

Oct 19, 2021 (SPX)

LCRD will leverage the power of infrared light to send and receive information encoded into invisible laser beams from one location to the next. Once in orbit, ...

Concrete: the world's 3rd largest CO2 emitter

Oct 19, 2021 (AFP)

How can this material, essential for global housing, construction and infrastructure, be made less damaging to the planet? - How bad can it be? - Cement is the ...

Three hours to save Integral

Oct 19, 2021 (ESA)

As a result of the spacecraft turning, data were only reaching ground control patchily and the batteries were quickly discharging. With just a few hours of powe...

One in three young kids uses social media, use of parental controls spotty

Oct 18, 2021 (UPI)

In addition, nearly half of those ages 10 to 12 indicated that they are on social media, the data showed. Still, one in six parents of elementary and middle sch...

French cloud computing IPO mints Europe's latest tech billionaire

Oct 15, 2021 (AFP)

The shares traded at slightly above their introduction price of 18.5 euros on Friday, valuing the group at around 3.5 billion euros ($4.1 billion). The flotatio...

Facebook parent Meta unveils AI video generator Make-a-Video

Oct 08, 2021 (UPI)

Make-a-Video, which is not yet available for public use, will allow users to create videos from a text prompt in the latest addition to the recent push for AI-g...

Simulating space on Earth: NASA receives hardware for testing satellite servicing tech

Oct 07, 2021 (SPX)

A gravity offset table is a large piece of granite used for testing space payloads in simulated zero-gravity conditions. Measuring 8 feet by 10 feet and weighin...

Urban mining for metals flashes forward

Oct 05, 2021 (SPX)

The flash Joule heating method introduced last year to produce graphene from carbon sources like waste food and plastic has been adapted to recover rhodium, pal...

New model simplifies orbital radar trade-off studies for environmental monitoring

Oct 05, 2021 (SPX)

Satellite imaging of the Earth is used to monitor agricultural land use, ocean ice cover, coastal change, and hostile weather events. These observations are mad...

eFootball fiasco symptom of growing rush to bring out games

Oct 05, 2021 (AFP)

The latest edition of the game previously known as Pro Evolution Soccer was meant to offer something to compete with undisputed football game champion FIFA, wit...