In the last two years, we’ve written several stories about Facebook’s mission to make broadband internet available to rural communities in third world countries. In February 2019, Facebook partnered with Telefonica and other companies, to extend rural connectivity and bring internet […]
The successful launch of SpaceX Dragon over the weekend has sparked interest among young people and others. Many people are asking how Apollo computers evaluated the transcendental functions like sine, arctangent, log? Thanks to NASA for sharing the source code and […]
There is collective sigh of relief after final separation SpaceX’s Dragon separating from its Falcon 9 as NASA and Space X made history after SpaceX carried two NASA astronauts into space from American soil after nearly a decade. Space X now becomes […]
On Wednesday, Space X Demo-2 launch was canceled due to bad weather. The mission marks the first time since the retirement of the space shuttle in 2011 that humans will fly to the space station from U.S. soil. Barring another weather […]
Watch history unfold as NASA and SpaceX launch astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley to the International Space Station. This mission marks the first time since the retirement of the space shuttle in 2011 that humans will fly to the […]
1961: First human in space 1969: First human on the moon 2000: First human long-term stay aboard the ISS 2020: First SpaceX flight with humans on-board Tomorrow (May 27) a new chapter of human space exploration begins. Last week, we […]
A new era of human spaceflight is set to begin as American astronauts once again launch on an American rocket from American soil to the International Space Station as part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. For the first time in nearly […]
The NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory is a robotic space probe mission to Mars launched by NASA on November 26, 2011. The mission successfully landed Curiosity, a Mars rover, in Gale Crater on August 6, 2012. The Laboratory and its rover […]
South Korea’s Geostationary Environment Monitoring Spectrometer (GEMS) instrument on the Korean Aerospace Research Institute GEO-KOMPSAT-2B satellite launched into orbit aboard an Arianespace Ariane 5 rocket Tuesday, Feb. 18, from the Guiana Space Center in French Guiana. A sister instrument to […]
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation announced today that it has been designated by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) as the contractor of the Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) space probe. Mitsubishi Electric, which has already initiated development activities for the project, will […]
It’s now global. According to NASA, the smoke from the Australia Fires has now traveled around the entire planet. In the video, which shows the global aerosol distribution from August 2019 until January 2020, one can see several high impact events across the […]
Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa, founder and chief executive of online fashion retailer Zozo, who has been chosen as the first private passenger by SpaceX, is searching for a girlfriend to join him on a voyage around the moon. The voyage, […]
We first wrote about SkyWatch back in February 2018 when the Canadian space technology startup raised $3.2 million to bring satellite data to the mass market. Since then the company has witnessed massive growth and saw its roster of clients grow […]
On Friday, we wrote about the successful launch of the Boeing’s first Starliner spacecraft built to fly astronauts. The spacecraft returned to Earth in a predawn landing today Sunday (December 22) touching down in New Mexico after a test flight due […]
Astraea, an early-stage tech startup using machine learning and AI to enable individuals and organizations to unlock insight from Earth observing satellite data, today announced the launch of EarthAI Notebook, a new tool for analyzing geospatial data. EarthAI Notebook is a […]
The long-awaited Boeing’s Starliner test was successfully launched. However, the Boeing’s spacecraft Starliner did not achieve the correct orbit after launching on Friday, preventing it from reaching its goal of docking with the International Space Station (ISS). According to multiple reports, […]
Today, less than a third of the countries in the world have their own satellites orbiting the Earth, limiting their ability to capture data about their policy implementation and infrastructure. However, the landscape is changing. One recent report valued the […]
Elbit Systems, an Israel-based company that develops, manufactures, and integrates defense electronics and electro-optic systems, today announced the successful launch of NANOVA nanosatellite to space. NANOVA was developed in collaboration with a U.S. company as part of the BIRD foundation initiative and […]
The Founder Institute, the world’s largest pre-seed startup accelerator, announced this week it signed a partnership agreement with NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, to help startup founders connect to selected NASA software and technologies while providing a robust global network of startup resources. The accelerator […]
In what the sports apparel giant called the world’s first spacesuit engineered for the masses, the Baltimore, Maryland-based Under Armour is creating a spacewear system for Virgin Galactic Future Astronauts. The company is making spacesuits that Virgin Galactic astronauts and tourists will […]
