Oct 28, 2021 | Robots, Space
Tokyo space startup Gitai Japan successfully conducted a technology demonstration of its autonomous robotic arm inside the International Space Station last week, a key milestone as the company prepares to provide robotics as a service in space. The S1...
Oct 28, 2021 | 5G, Space, Telecommunications
Verizon has made a deal to use Amazon’s low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites to add capacity to the Verizon cellular network and provide fixed-wireless Internet service in rural parts of the US. Verizon said it will use Amazon satellite connectivity for both...
Oct 28, 2021 | Artificial Intelligence, Featured, Space
By implementing artificial intelligence techniques similar to those used in autonomous cars, a team from the UNIGE and the UniBE, in partnership with the company Disaitek, has discovered a new method for detecting exoplanets. The majority of exoplanets discovered to...
Oct 21, 2021 | Featured, Space
As Near-Earth orbital space gets more crowded, it is imperative that states should come to a more comprehensive agreement to regulate it Near-Earth orbital space is a complex system and a finite resource that is geopolitically and commercially contested, and is in...
Oct 14, 2021 | Featured, Space
Ninety-year-old William Shatner, who gained fame portraying Captain Kirk on the original “Star Trek,” just hitched a ride aboard a suborbital spacecraft that grazed the edge of outer space before parachuting to a landing, making Shatner the oldest...
Oct 7, 2021 | Solar, Space
The goal of the Lucy mission is simple: get close enough to eight of the so-called “Trojan asteroids” to snap photos and beam them back to NASA. Those images could verify long-held suspicions by scientists that the Trojan asteroids are peppered with organic...
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