space
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The Bond Between Starlink’s Two Biggest Competitors Just Got Tighter
One of the largest satellite internet providers to rural America, HughesNet, has entered a $US250 ($331) million, three-year contract with UK-based OneWeb to develop and manufacture ground system technology for its satellite LEO constellation, which will compete with SpaceX’s Starlink system.
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Virgin Galactic Aborts New Mexico Launch Because of Rocket Motor Issues
Nearly two years after its last flight, Virgin Galactic — the space tourism venture founded by Richard Branson, another billionaire who loves space — aborted the scheduled test launch of its SpaceShipTwo commercial aircraft into suborbital space today because of an issue with its rocket motor.
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Chuck Yeager, First Faster-Than-Sound Pilot, Dies at 97
America has lost one of its great daredevils of the sky. Chuck Yeager, the Air Force test pilot who made history by being the first person to break the sound barrier, died on Monday evening. He was 97.
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Newly Discovered Ghostly Circles in the Sky Can’t Be Explained by Current Theories
In September 2019, my colleague Anna Kapinska gave a presentation showing interesting objects she’d found while browsing our new radio astronomical data. She had started noticing very weird shapes she couldn’t fit easily to any known type of object. Among them, labelled by Anna as WTF?, was a picture of a ghostly circle of radio…