by dankeelan | Jan 5, 2023 | Satellites, Solar, Space
Harnessing the power of the sun is all the rage right now. At the end of 2022, US scientists announced a nuclear fusion breakthrough that could, in a few decades, see a clean, renewable and essentially unlimited energy source powering the world. In reality,...
by dankeelan | Sep 15, 2022 | Featured, Satellites, Space
More than half of the thousands of satellites in orbit are now defunct, and this accumulation of floating space debris has been described as a “fatal problem” for current and future space missions and human space travel. An estimated 130 million objects...
by dankeelan | Jun 30, 2022 | Astronomy, Satellites, Space
We’re about to have an entirely new perspective on the universe. The James Webb Space Telescope will release its first high-resolution color images on July 12. One of those images “is the deepest image of our universe that has ever been taken,” said...
by dankeelan | Jun 9, 2022 | Artificial Intelligence, Oceanography, Satellites
A new dataset featuring hundreds of satellite images of whales has been published to support the development of artificial intelligence systems which will aid crucial conservation work. British Antarctic Survey (BAS) scientists Hannah Cubaynes and Peter Fretwell have...
by dankeelan | Jun 2, 2022 | Autonomous Vehicles, Featured, Satellites
China’s Zhejiang Geely Holding Group conducted its first successful satellite launch on Wednesday, sending nine into low earth orbit as it builds out a satellite network to provide more accurate navigation for autonomous vehicles. The self-designed and...
by dankeelan | Mar 17, 2022 | Climate, Satellites
A new study based on NASA and ESA satellite data shows that Arctic sea ice is thinning at a “frightening rate.” Measuring the ice via satellites each month from 2018 to 2021, polar scientists Sahra Kacimi of the California Institute of...
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