by dankeelan | Sep 26, 2024 | Satellites, Space
The U.S. Space Force is moving forward with plans to augment its aging Satellite Control Network (SCN) by leveraging commercial satellite antennas. Shannon Pallone, program executive for battle management, command control and communications at the Space Systems...
by dankeelan | Sep 19, 2024 | Featured, Internet of Things, Satellites, Space
The company’s Electron rocket was scheduled to launch five “Internet of Things” satellites for the French company Kinéis today at 7 p.m. EDT (2300 GMT) from New Zealand. The countdown clock reached zero, and Electron appeared to fire up its...
by dankeelan | Jul 2, 2024 | Artificial Intelligence, Featured, Satellites
In 1957 frank rosenblatt, a psychologist, built a machine called the Perceptron. Modelled on the human brain, its neural networks were a forerunner of today’s artificial intelligence (ai). It intrigued the cia which was drowning in photos from spy planes and...
by dankeelan | Jun 21, 2024 | Featured, Internet of Things, Satellites, Space
An Electron lifted off from Pad B at Launch Complex 1 in Mahia, New Zealand, at 2:13 p.m. EDT on June 20 (1813 GMT; 6:13 a.m. local New Zealand time on June 21). The rocket was operating with an instantaneous launch window but lifted off at the first...
by dankeelan | Jun 3, 2024 | Satellites, Space
When satellites re-enter Earth’s atmosphere at the end of their lives, they leave behind metal particles in Earth’s orbit and atmosphere and studies suggest that aluminum introduced during the burning fireball of reentry could also contribute to the depletion of...
by dankeelan | Feb 8, 2024 | Climate, Environment, Oceanography, Satellites
NASA’s newest Earth-observing satellite has made it off the chopping block all the way to orbit. The nearly $1 billion PACE mission, which the Trump administration tried to cancel four separate times, launched atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket early this...
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