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https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/01/space-oddity-uncovering-the-origin-of-the-universes-rare-radio-circles
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Lifeboat
It's not every day astronomers say, "What is that?" After all, most observed astronomical phenomena are known: stars, planets, black holes and galaxies. But in 2019 the newly completed ASKAP (Australian Square Kilometer Array Pathfinder) telescope picked up something no one had ever seen before:...
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https://youtu.be/cb6sdimG8GE
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Isaac Arthur
A look at Neptune, a potential gateway to the stars...Visit our sponsor, Brilliant: https://brilliant.org/IsaacArthur/The Icy Giants, Neptune and Uranus, are...
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https://www.theregister.com/2024/02/21/dod_scaleai_contract/
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Theregister
The US Department of Defense is reportedly working with startup Scale AI to test generative AI models for military use. Scale AI will build a framework of tools and datasets that the Pentagon can deploy to evaluate large language models. The framework will involve "measuring model performance, offering real-time feedback for warfighters, and creating specialized public sector evaluation sets to test AI models for military support applications, such as organizing the findings from after action reports," the San Francisco-based biz told DefenseScoop.
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https://www.space.com/true-anomaly-space-surveillance-100-million-funding
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Space
True Anomaly just scored a big chunk of change to continue developing its space security tech. The Colorado-based startup announced on Tuesday (Dec. 12) that it raised $100 million in a "Series round of funding led by Riot Ventures. The money "will be used for continued investment in people, products and services to further advance True Anomaly's national security space technology offerings at the intersection of hardware, software and ," True Anomaly representatives said in an emailed statement on Tuesday.
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https://arstechnica.com/space/2023/08/biden-administration-reverses-trump-decision-to-relocate-us-space-command/
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Arstechnica
Enlarge / A US Space Command flag is displayed outside the White House during a 2019 ceremony announcing the command's re-establishment.
President Biden plans to keep the headquarters of US Space Command in Colorado Springs and not move it to Alabama as the Air Force proposed under the...
President Biden plans to keep the headquarters of US Space Command in Colorado Springs and not move it to Alabama as the Air Force proposed under the...
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http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-43418047
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BBC
Aerospace company Airbus is developing a large projectile to snare rogue or redundant satellites.
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https://omny.fm/shows/planetary-radio-space-exploration-astronomy-and-sc/the-20th-landing-anniversary-of-spirit-and-opportu
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Omny
January marks 20 years since NASA's twin Mars rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, touched down on the surface of the red planet. Matt Golombek, project scientist for the Mars Exploration Rover Project, joins Planetary Radio to celebrate. But first, the countdown to the next great American total solar...
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https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/03/sharing-economy-space-blockchain
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We Forum
Creating a sharing economy in space could help us identify and counter some of the biggest threats to our planet.
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https://futurism.com/aerogel-martian-farming
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It may be possible to terraform Mars by blanketing future space farms with a thin layer of aerogel that blocks radiation and heats the ground.
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https://www.archdaily.com/1008409/thin-brick-in-building-design-a-guide-to-their-use-and-application
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Brick is a traditional building material that enhances durability, versatility, and the aesthetic appeal of building design. Used in construction for thousands of years, contemporary architecture explores creative ways to incorporate brick into design, combining it with different materials to seamlessly integrate the old and the new.
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https://arstechnica.com/space/2023/10/russia-talks-a-big-future-in-space-while-its-overall-budget-is-quietly-cut/
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Enlarge / Russia outlined a plan for future spaceflight activities this week.IAC/Roscosmos
The leader of Russia's space corporation, Yuri Borisov, discussed his country's future ambitions in space on Tuesday at the International Astronautical Congress. He spoke expansively about Russia's...
The leader of Russia's space corporation, Yuri Borisov, discussed his country's future ambitions in space on Tuesday at the International Astronautical Congress. He spoke expansively about Russia's...
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https://www.wired.com/story/ashley-shew-disability-space-exploration/
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Today, young people are becoming disabled in record numbers with all the various impacts of long Covid, which is estimated to affect between 8 and 25 percent of people who have been infected. The disabled future is coming to pass now, and we need to create inclusive and accessible environments...
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https://www.theregister.com/2023/04/29/ashlee_vance_space/
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Bloomberg journalist and former Register vulture Ashlee Vance has finished a five-year in-depth investigation into Earth's potentially multi-trillion-dollar private space industry, which will be published in the form of his upcoming book: When The Heavens Went On Sale. His previous tome was the best-selling biography of Elon Musk, who when not screwing around with Twitter runs SpaceX, one of the world's biggest private space technology companies.
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https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/south-korea-launches-spy-satellite-after-rival-north-105314089
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VANDENBERG SPACE FORCE BASE, Calif. -- South Korea launched its first military spy satellite into space Friday, a little over a week after North Korea claimed to put its own spy satellite into orbit for the first time as tensions rise between the rivals.Launched from California's Vandenberg Space...
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https://gizmodo.com/proposed-mission-resurrect-retired-spitzer-telescope-1850433358
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For more than three years, NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has been idly coasting around the Sun while locked in a retirement safe mode, while its successor, the Webb Telescope, took over its cosmic observation duties. An upcoming servicing mission, however, could give the old telescope a new...
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https://www.spacedaily.com/reports/ILLUMA_T_launches_to_the_International_Space_Station_999.html
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On Nov. a Lincoln Laboratory-developed laser communications terminal integrated on a NASA-built payload was launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 vehicle. Cameras inside the launch vehicle enabled the laboratory and a NASA Goddard Space Flight Center team to watch as the payload headed for the International Space Station (ISS), a football-field-sized research platform orbiting Earth about 250 miles above its surface, an altitude known as low Earth orbit (LEO).
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https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/beyond-earth-s-gravity-navigating-legal-5524053/
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Jdsupra
Hogan Lovells. Innovative technologies are reshaping every industry, presenting new business cases and changing our daily lives. These technologies are hyper-connecting the world and offering new ways to interact. Particularly in the Space and Satellite arena, technology is ever-evolving, expanding, and combining in ways never before contemplated.
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https://spacenews.com/millennium-space-to-build-a-missile-sensor-layer-in-medium-earth-orbit/
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WASHINGTON — The U.S. Space Force has given Millennium Space Systems the go-ahead to begin production of six satellites that will be deployed in medium Earth orbit to detect and track ballistic and hypersonic missiles.
The Space Systems Command announced Nov. 27 that Millennium's proposed...
The Space Systems Command announced Nov. 27 that Millennium's proposed...
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https://koreatimes.co.kr/www/nation/2024/03/356_370531.html
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President Yoon Suk Yeol pledged Wednesday to expand the budget for space development to over 1.5 trillion won ($1.14 billion) by 2027 as he attended the launch of a new space industry cluster in the southern part of the country. The cluster — a triangle formed by Daejeon in the north, South Gyeongsang Province in the east and South Jeolla Province in the west — was launched during a ceremony at the headquarters of Korea Aerospace Industries in Sacheon, 296 kilometers southeast of Seoul.
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https://theleader.info/2023/08/17/princess-leonor-begins-military-journey-to-san-javier/
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Princess Leonor began her three years of military training this week, that will prepare her after passing through the academies of the Army, the Air and Space Force and the Navy to become in the future, once she is Queen, the Captain General of the Armed Forces, as dictated by the Constitution. "This is an important moment in my life and I feel very excited and convinced to continue learning and giving my best spirit to strengthen the values with which I have grown," she said, citing among them "respect for others, effort, excellence, search for knowledge, temperance, discipline, perseverance".
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12486637/US-Air-Force-unarmed-Minuteman-Vandenberg-Space-Force-Base-California.html?ito=1490&ns_campaign=1490&ns_mchannel=rss
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US Air Force conducts test launch of unarmed Minuteman III ICBM from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California The nuclear weapon launch was successfully launched at 1.26am on WednesdayOfficials say the test was to validate and verify the readiness of the system By Emma James For Dailymail.Com...
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https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/02/big-year-ahead-says-jeff-bezos-as-new-glenn-rocket-rolls-to-launch-pad/
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Enlarge / Dave Limp, Blue Origin's new CEO, and founder Jeff Bezos observe the New Glenn rocket on its launch pad Wednesday at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida.
Anyone who has tracked the development of Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket has been waiting for signs of progress from...
Anyone who has tracked the development of Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket has been waiting for signs of progress from...