A Chinese ground-based facility for converting solar energy bounced to Earth is scheduled for completion by the end of 2021 and has already conducted energy transfer tests up to 300-meter altitudes, a key project member told state-run media China Science Daily .
The project member, Zhong Yuanchang, is a professor at Chongqing University's School of Microelectronics and Communication Engineering.
Prosecutors in ComEd bribery case orbiting Madigan offer no hints on new charges as judge sets
Federal prosecutors said Tuesday the grand jury investigation into the alleged bribery scheme involving former House Speaker Michael Madigan remains active, but offered no hints on whether new charges will be brought in the high-profile case.
Madigan has been the elephant in the courtroom since May, when lawyers for four people charged with conspiring to bribe the former speaker on behalf of utility giant Commonwealth Edison said they expect more charges were coming that would make it difficult for them to prepare for trial.
Aurora Propulsion Technologies will be sending up space junk removal tech on Rocket Lab’s
Aurora Propulsion Technologies, a Finnish company that develops thrusters and de-orbiting modules for small satellites, will be sending its technology to space for the first time.
Aurora is part of a small number of startups that have emerged over the past few years whose technology could help solve a tricky problem that, for most of us, can be summed up as “out of sight, out of mind”: space junk.
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Editor's note: Astronomy Update is provided by the Chippewa Valley Astronomical Society and is compiled by Lauren Likkel, an emeritus of the UW-Eau Claire department of physics and astronomy.
Then on Oct. 4, 1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1. It was the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth.
Elon Musk's satellites beam internet into remote Chilean fishing hamlet : The Tribune India
After half an hour's windswept journey on foot and by boat through a craggy forested estuary to the school he attends in remote southern Chile, Diego Guerrero can finally access the internet.
His school is located in the hamlet of Sotomo, around 1,000 kilometers (620 miles) south of the capital Santiago in the region of Los Lagos and inhabited by just 20 families.
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SOTOMO, Chile, Aug 19 (Reuters) - After half an hour's windswept journey on foot and by boat through a craggy forested estuary to the school he attends in remote southern Chile, Diego Guerrero can finally access the internet.
His school is located in the hamlet of Sotomo, around 1,000 kilometers (620 miles) south of the capital Santiago in the region of Los Lagos and inhabited by just 20 families.
Starlink's 'megaconstellation' of 12,000 satellites could account for 90% of near misses in
Near misses in Earth orbit occur when two spacecraft pass within 1 kilometer (0.6 miles) of each other.
A deer appeared to be frantically running down the Tahquamenon River toward a waterfall, and then the unexpected occurred. "I cannot believe that," said one tourist.
Inspiration4 Documentary Netflix Trailer Reveals the History-Making Civilian Space Mission
Netflix has debuted the first trailer for the upcoming docuseries Countdown: Inspiration4 Mission To Space , which chronicles the groundbreaking historical event known as Inspiration4, the world's first all-civilian mission for a multi-day trip orbiting the Earth.
Jared Isaacman , Hayley Arcenaux , Dr.
NASA Spacewalk Briefing to Highlight New Solar Array Installation | | johnsoncitypress.com
WASHINGTON, Aug. 18, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Two astronauts will venture outside the International Space Station Tuesday, Aug. 24, for a spacewalk to install a support bracket in preparation for future installation of the orbiting laboratory's third new solar array.
The crew will also replace a device that measures the electrical charging potential of the arrays and associated surfaces in its vicinity, called a floating point measurement unit, on a separate truss.
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