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WASHINGTON — The governments of the United States and India announced June 17 they are moving ahead with cooperation on human spaceflight that would include flying an Indian astronaut to the International Space Station, although with few details on who would fly and when. The White House released a fact sheet regarding a meeting of
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TAMPA, Fla. — Ovzon’s first fully owned satellite has reached its geostationary position after a five-month journey in space and passed initial health checks, the Swedish broadband operator announced June 14. Per Norén, Ovzon’s CEO, said Ovzon 3 will enter service “within a few short weeks,” once manufacturer Maxar Technologies completes the remaining in-orbit tests.
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Famed British polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton’s last expedition ship Quest has been found at the bottom of the Atlantic off Canada’s coast, searchers announced Wednesday. Royal Canadian Geographical Society boss John Geiger told a news conference the shipwreck was found in the Labrador Sea at a depth of 390 meters (1,280 feet). “This is
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Scientists said Tuesday that international efforts to protect the ozone layer had been a “huge global success” after revealing that damaging gases in the atmosphere were declining faster than expected. The Montreal Protocol signed in 1987 aimed to phase out ozone-depleting substances found primarily in refrigeration, air conditioning and aerosol sprays. A new study has
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SAN FRANCISCO — Kayhan Space unveiled Satcat, a new source for information on objects and events in Earth orbit. Satcat, short for satellite catalog, merges open-source data on spacecraft and debris with tools to simplify research and analysis. In the past, “if you wanted to collect information about satellites it simply wasn’t easy,” Araz Feyzi,
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Computer scientists have for decades been vying to emulate the human brain, replicating its neural networks to build artificial intelligence (AI) with enhanced processing power. But the more sophisticated those artificial neural networks become, the more powerful they get, and the more we rely on them, the more energy they consume. And sometimes nature’s original
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WASHINGTON — Stoke Space has test-fired a highly efficient engine it is developing for the first stage of its fully reusable launch vehicle. The company, based in Kent, Washington, announced June 11 that it performed a brief firing of the engine at a test site in Moses Lake, Washington, on June 5. The engine, designed
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Around 4,000 species of plants and animals are victims of illegal wildlife trade globally, according to the latest World Wildlife Crime Report. Despite two decades of coordinated international efforts to tackle illegal wildlife trafficking, it keeps posing one of the greatest threats to many species’ continued existence amid the backdrop of human-driven ecological unraveling. “Wildlife
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Updated 6:15 p.m. Eastern with comments from post-flight press conference. SPACEPORT AMERICA, N.M. — Virgin Galactic’s VSS Unity spaceplane conducted its final commercial mission June 8, taking a Turkish researcher and three private astronauts on a suborbital spaceflight. VSS Unity, attached to its VMS Eve mothership aircraft, took off from Spaceport America in southern New
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