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Space pirates already have their sights set on the 'high seas' of Earth orbit. Can we stop them?
Experts are already looking into the risks of piracy in space and solutions to this potentially devastating economic and ...
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SpaceX prepares to launch 4-person crew on first polar orbit mission
the crew will be the first to view Earth’s poles from low-Earth orbit. SpaceX’s Falcon 9 launch will place the Dragon into a 90-degree circularized orbit, the highest of any human mission yet.
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Earth Orbit Is Filling Up with Junk. Greenhouse Gases Worsen the Problem.
But most satellites operate in a zone called “low Earth orbit,” between 200 and 2,000 kilometers up ... Parker’s study found that in a future where emissions remain high, the atmosphere would lose so ...
The X-37B spaceplane lands after helping pave the way for “maneuver warfare”
The X-37B spaceplane touched down on Runway 12 at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, at 11:22 pm local time Thursday (2 ...
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Starlink satellites: Facts, tracking and impact on astronomy
The issue with growing numbers of low-Earth orbit satellite constellations is that one of the main goals they have is to send down high amounts of data for internet access so they'll be constantly ...