🚀 Space
Space is the final frontier and is now being opened to everyone thanks to front runners such as NASA and now SpaceX and Elon Musk, Blue Origin and Virgin Galactic.
🚀 SpaceX and the new Silk Road of space
Have investors gone crazy, or what are they hoping to get out of buying SpaceX shares at an astronomical valuation?
🛰️ AI and satellite imagery help journalists map illegal mines in the Amazon
Machine learning analyzes satellite images covering more than 123 million acres of rainforest and identifies mining pits and airstrips. Venezuelan journalist Joseph Poliszuk has identified 3,718 gold mining sites. Some of the mines were located within protected indigenous lands.
🛰️ Coffee companies launch satellite program to map deforestation
Several major coffee companies and coffee traders have joined forces to map coffee farms and deforestation using satellite imagery and AI models. The initiative will protect millions of smallholder farmers from being wrongly excluded from the EU market due to inaccurate maps.
🌔 Artemis 2 astronauts flew past the moon — set new distance record
The Artemis 2 crew traveled farther from Earth than any humans before — 406,778 kilometers (252,760 miles). It is the first time in over 50 years that humans have visited the moon, and the first time in history with a woman, a non-American and a Black person on board.
💫 Space collision altered asteroids' solar orbit – confirms that planetary defense works
NASA's deliberate space collision with the asteroid Dimorphos shifted the asteroid pair's orbit around the sun. It is the first time scientists have been able to measure such a change, confirming that the technique works for deflecting dangerous asteroids.
🛰️ Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin launches satellite network to compete with Elon Musk's Starlink
Blue Origin plans to launch 5,408 satellites for a new communications network called TeraWave. The network will be able to deliver data speeds of up to 6 terabits per second anywhere on Earth. The first satellites are scheduled to be placed in orbit during the fourth quarter of 2027.
🌕 Finally, FINALLY, we’re heading back to the Moon (with the goal of staying)
This is Artemis II and an interview with Sweden’s first astronaut, Christer Fuglesang.
🔭 Google's former CEO is funding four new telescopes to be completed within four years
Eric and Wendy Schmidt are investing in building four large telescopes, including a space telescope that will rival Hubble. One of the telescopes, Argus Array, consists of 1,200 small telescopes that together can photograph the entire northern sky in a few minutes.
🛰️ Startup successfully transmits solar energy with laser from aircraft – a step toward space-based solar power
Overview Energy has tested transmitting thousands of watts from an aircraft to a ground-based receiver using near-infrared laser light. The technology makes it possible to deliver solar energy to existing ground-based solar facilities when the sun is not shining.