“They Want to Break the Sky in Silence”: NASA’s X-59 Jet Sparks Outrage as Aviation Giants and Noise Activists Go to War
IN A NUTSHELL 🚀 The X-59 is designed to fly faster than sound without the disruptive sonic booms…
Starlink satellites significantly interfering with radio astronomy observations
Curtin University researchers have undertaken the world’s biggest survey of low frequency satellite radio emissions, finding Starlink satellites are significantly…
Why Isn’t China Catching Up With Elon Musk’s Starlink?
China’s two biggest networks have deployed less than 1 percent of their planned satellites, records show, a measure…
The Milky Way brightens the moonless summer sky this week: Here’s where to look
Head away from city lights in late July to see the dense core of the Milky Way arcing…
2 Earth weather satellites accidentally spy on Venus
In a serendipitous turn of events, scientists have discovered that Japan’s Himawari-8 and Himawari-9 weather satellites, designed to…
China tightens quality oversight over commercial space projects
HELSINKI — China has introduced new rules to strengthen quality control and supervision across its growing commercial space…
T-Mobile Launches Its Cellular Starlink Service: What You Need to Know
After years of work, T-Mobile and SpaceX are ready to officially launch the cellular Starlink service, allowing smartphone…
NASA shares how it fixed spacecraft’s camera from 370 million miles away
JunoCam, the imaging device of the Juno spacecraft, encountered problems while orbiting Jupiter. NASA noticed a problem when…
NASA Launches Mission to Study Earth’s Magnetic Shield
NASA’s newest mission, TRACERS, soon will begin studying how Earth’s magnetic shield protects our planet from the effects…
NASA Tests Mixed Reality Sim In Vertical Motion Simulator
Commercial companies and government agencies are increasingly pursuing a more immersive and affordable alternative to conventional displays currently…
Power Outage Causes Last-Minute Scrub of NASA’s TRACERS Mission
NASA’s TRACERS (Tandem Reconnection and Cusp Electrodynamics Reconnaissance Satellites) mission, a critical scientific endeavor to study Earth’s magnetic…
How do scientists calculate the probability that an asteroid could hit Earth?
This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com’s Expert Voices: Op-Ed…