Researchers are building better satellite IoT systems to improve global coverage, reduce delays, and meet the growing demand from connected devices.
Category: 2. Space
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Satellite Internet of Things promises smarter global connectivity
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NASA’s proposed budget eyes human exploration of Mars
A new emphasis on Mars exploration was clear from the very beginning of the second Trump administration. “We will pursue our manifest destiny into the stars, launching American astronauts to plant the Stars and Stripes on the planet…
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NASA selects shuttle orbiter to move to Houston
WASHINGTON — NASA has selected a shuttle orbiter to transfer to Houston, a move that faces logistical, fiscal and legal challenges.
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Star survives black hole and comes back for more
Lightning might not strike twice, but black holes apparently do. An international group of researchers led by Tel Aviv University astronomers observed a flare caused when a star falls onto a black hole and is destroyed. Surprisingly, this flare…
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Scientists Have Brewed a ‘Super Alcohol’ Theorized to Exist in Deep Space : ScienceAlert
By recreating extreme conditions found inside deep space interstellar clouds, scientists have produced methanetetrol, or C(OH)4 – a ‘super alcohol’ that was long theorized about but never actually seen before.
This is not the kind of alcohol…
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Earth Spun Faster Today. Here’s How We Know. : ScienceAlert
Earth will complete a rotation 1.33 milliseconds earlier than usual on Tuesday, August 5. That makes it one of the shortest days of 2025 at 86,399.99867 seconds long.
How that happens, and how we can even measure it with such precision, might…
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Northrop says investments position company for Golden Dome missile defense demand
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — Northrop Grumman executives said the company’s billion-dollar investment in solid rocket motor production facilities will pay dividends as the Pentagon scales up procurement for the Golden Dome missile defense…
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A hot white dwarf merger remnant revealed by an ultraviolet detection of carbon
Gaia Collaboration Gaia Data Release 2. Summary of the contents and survey properties. Astron. Astrophys. 616, A1 (2018).
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Probing intermediate-mass black hole binaries with the lunar gravitational-wave antenna
Priors for the population of IMBH binaries
It is more realistic to consider all relevant parameters for GWs from IMBH binaries, including orbital eccentricity and spin precession. However, recent studies43,44 have found that these two factors have…
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Collision probability analysis of 2024 YR4
The Yarkovsky effect is a thermal radiation force that gradually alters an asteroid’s orbit. This effect depends on several factors, including the asteroid’s size, orbital parameters, rotation state, and surface thermal properties2. The force…
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