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Starlink Global Coverage on Track For October
I have never made any secret of the fact that I am a huge supporter of the Starlink project. Utilising satellites to effectively bring affordable and fast internet to everyone around the world certainly sounds like a very worthy pursuit. Albeit, I freely concede that while the availability of the…
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Starlink Should be ‘Fully Mobile’ by the End of the Year
I have to admit to being a very big supporter of ‘Project Starlink‘. For those of you unfamiliar with it, utilizing SpaceX launches, Elon Musk is looking to provide the entire world with fast internet access. With it already available in America, and also in the UK and Europe (with…
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Starlink Applies to Bring Internet to Trucks, Ships, and Planes!
Elon Musk’s SpaceX-based Starlink internet service has certainly managed to capture the attention of many consumers. Particularly those who are currently languishing with sub-par connections eagerly eying up the potential speeds of up to 250Mbps. With it currently available in many countries now (albeit, at a prohibitively expensive price), it…
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Starlink is Taking Internet Pre-Orders for UK Customers!
For quite a long period of time now, I have anxiously watched Elon Musk’s Project Starlink with more than a little casual interest. I mean, for those of you unaware of what it is, for the last few years as part of the SpaceX platform, hundreds of satellites have been…
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Starlink Claims it Already has 10,000 Internet Users
While I doubt it’s escaped your attention that Elon Musk’s SpaceX program has been launching various rockets over the last couple of years, you may not be aware that one of their targets has been to put hundreds of new satellites into orbit. Specifically, for the creation of Project Starlink.…
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UK Designed Space Junk Collector Is Deployed!
UK Designed Space Junk Collector Is Deployed! As you can imagine, over the years we’ve sent rather a lot of things into an orbit of our little planet. So much so in fact that we currently have a bit of a rubbish issue up there and a call to your…
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DARPA Might Have a Way to Improve Satellite Longevity
It’s definitely not cheap to develop a satellite and launch it into space, so as you can probably imagine, its creators would prefer it if that satellite would remain fully operational for as long as possible. Unfortunately, geosynchronous Earth orbit satellites that follow our planet’s rotation are often faced with…
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New Augmented Reality App Lets You See Radio Waves
In the modern era, radio waves are everywhere, from crisscrossing Wi-Fi signals, cellular signals, GPS, Bluetooth and many others. Yet we often aren’t aware of them, with human perception limited only to the visible light spectrum of electromagnetic waves. However the new augmented reality app, Architecture of Radio, seeks to…
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US Government Prepare For Blast From Space
This is not an article about a future movie plot. It would seem that as we become more and more aware about the universe we only just start to understand just how little we actually know about what could happen in the vast emptiness of space. The White House’s National…
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NSA Surveillance Program Operating For a Very Long Time
NSA operations have been going on a long, long, long, long time, that is according to the latest revelations by both Edward Snowdon and also by a report from The Intercept, NSA/GCHQ’s top secret surveillance program “Project Echelon” has been spying on the US allies, enemies, and its citizens for…
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A Future Where Nano Satellites Beam Information
Satellites provide the earth with the ability to run critical infrastructure which includes Telecommunications, Television Transmissions and even that annoying little Sat Nav who tells you it’s more convenient to take a shortcut through a swamp. But according to Anthony Previte who is CEO of the space company Terran Orbital,…
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SpaceX Falcon 9 Certified for National Security and Military Launches
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 launch system has been scrutinized by the US Air Force and is now fully certified for future missions, breaking the monopoly currently held by the United Launch Alliance. SpaceX will now be allowed to compete for launch contracts for military and reconnaissance satellites. “This is a very important…
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UAE Wants The Arab Name Traveling to Mars in 2021
Space, so vast, so beautiful and so mysterious. It seems that everyone want’s to go to Mars at the moment and now the UAE (United Arab Emirates) wants to join in on that adventure too. Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, I can’t say it either, is the UAE vice president and…
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Skybox To Enable Real Time Google Maps, Let the Spying Begin?
A few weeks ago Google made a quiet acquisition of a start-up called Skybox. As with many of Google’s purchases it went without much fanfare as the company likes to shop around for new toys quite a lot, it can be hard to keep up with them all. This latest…
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