Nov 11, 2021 | Robots, Solar, Space
NASA has set its sights on the moon’s south pole in its quest for ice. This week, the space agency and the company Intuitive Machines announced Shackleton Crater landing site at the south pole of the moon for a small lander set to launch next year. The...
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...
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