A tiny satellite is poised to set the stage for something far grander: a full-blown lunar space station. NASA’s CAPSTONE satellite is scheduled to launch on Monday and then travel to a unique lunar orbit in a pathfinder mission for the Artemis programwhich is seeking to return humans to the Moon later this decade. CAPSTONE … Read more
Save to read list Published by Sara Simper, Editorial Assistant World Pipelines, Thursday, 23 June 2022 15:00 Orbital Sidekick (OSK) has announced that it has been selected by Dallas-based Energy Transfer to monitor its assets in the Permian Basin through satellite technology. Energy Transfer is one of the largest energy infrastructure companies in North America … Read more
A Kuaizhou-1A carrier rocket carrying the Tianxing-1 test satellite blasts off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China, June 22, 2022. The satellite was launched at 10:08 am (Beijing Time) and entered the planned orbit. The satellite is mainly used for experiments such as space environment detection. (Photo by Wang Jiangbo / Xinhua) … Read more
The Bryan-College Station Public Library System is hoping to start a satellite neighborhood library at the Lake Walk development in Bryan with the help of the community and partnerships in the city. The satellite library would be in a vacant 2,371 square-foot building space between the POV Coffee House and the Children’s Museum of the … Read more
Uganda will launch its first-ever satellite into space this year, Finance Minister Matia Kasaija has said. “Madam Speaker, in September this year Uganda will launch into the Lower Earth Orbit its first-ever satellite from the International Space Station in collaboration with the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA),” Kasaija said. He was reading Tuesday … Read more
Spend time in a city in summer and you can feel the urban heat rising from the pavement and radiating from buildings. Cities are generally hotter than surrounding rural areas, but even within cities, some residential neighborhoods get dangerously warmer than others just a few miles away. With these “micro-urban heat islands,” communities can experience … Read more
FOR most of the population buffering on Netflix is unthinkable. But for people in rural, remote parts of the Philippines, submitting homework online or having a video call with loved ones isn’t feasible — they just don’t have access to stable internet connection. Like many countries in Asia, the digital landscape in the Philippines makes … Read more
[Courtesy of LG Uplus] SEOUL – LG Uplus, a mobile carrier in South Korea, has worked with a state research university to optimize the structure of low-earth orbit satellite networks for 6G communications using quantum computers. 6G will overcome time and spatial limitations through satellite communication and transform paradigms of communications. LG Uplus (LGU +) … Read more
ISTANBUL Türksat 5B telecommunication satellite will be put in service next week on June 14, Transport and Infrastructure Minister Adil Karaismailoğlu has announced. class = “cf”> “After a five-month journey, Türksat 5B reached orbit on May 17. Performance and orbit tests were conducted successfully. Now it is time to put the satellite in service, ”said … Read more
Turkey’s telecommunication satellite launched into space nearly half a year ago will be put into service next week, the country’s transport and infrastructure minister said Thursday. Türksat 5B was launched in December on a Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral in Florida. The satellite was launched to geostationary transfer orbit, … Read more