by dankeelan | Oct 5, 2023 | Space
The US government has issued its first ever fine to a company for leaving space junk orbiting the Earth. The Federal Communications Commission fined Dish Network $150,000 (£125,000) for failing to move an old satellite far enough away from others in use. The...
by dankeelan | Sep 28, 2023 | Featured, Robots, Space
NASA’s Cooperative Autonomous Distributed Robotic Exploration (CADRE) is working on a network of mini mobile robots, almost the size of a shoebox, that can work together as a team to autonomously explore planetary surfaces including the rugger lunar terrain....
by dankeelan | Sep 21, 2023 | Drones, Featured, Space
Meteorites offer tantalizing clues about what the early solar system was like. But finding them is far from rocket science. Often, researchers simply fan out across a landscape and walk for hours while staring at the ground. Now, some scientists are turning to drones...
by dankeelan | Sep 13, 2023 | Robots, Space
A robotic telescope on the moon could peer deeper into the universe than the famed James Webb Telescope can and perhaps even help find life on exoplanets, scientists say. Astronomers think that powerful instruments on the moon may open the next frontier in...
by dankeelan | Sep 6, 2023 | Space
Tiny devices on satellites will soon be able to detect pieces of space debris as small as 1 inch that are invisible to existing space junk monitoring systems but still capable of destroying spacecraft if they might collide with. These innovative space...
by dankeelan | Aug 31, 2023 | Space
A private company may have come up with an absolutely ingenious way to tackle the space junk problem by using giant space bags to catch debris. Our planet is surrounded by roughly 26,500 pieces of debris more than 4 inches wide, according to the European Space Agency....
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