Space
Coverage of advances in space exploration that have implications for state and local government. Includes stories about satellites, which are increasingly used to expand the availability of Internet access, as well as to capture images and gather data using sensors to monitor things like environmental conditions and infrastructure needs.
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Amazon is negotiating a purchase of Globalstar for up to $9 billion as it seeks to build a satellite business that will rival Starlink, a network of 10,000 satellites owned by Elon Musk’s company SpaceX.
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A Boeing-built rocket is set to propel four astronauts to orbit the moon, marking the first time humans have left Earth orbit since the Apollo missions more than 50 years ago.
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Plus, the world's fastest business jet takes off, Merriam-Webster's tech-centric word of 2025, and the cost savings of charging an electric vehicle from your home.
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Albedo co-founder and CEO Topher Haddad said the Colorado-based company’s tech offers higher-resolution images than what’s currently available by combining visible and thermal infrared imagery.
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A bipartisan group of U.S. Congress members from Ohio are working to pitch the federal government on the Buckeye State being the future home of U.S. Space Command.
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NASA talked publicly Wednesday about the work of its independent study team formed last year to take a new look at “events in the sky that cannot be identified as aircraft or as known natural phenomenon.”
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Axiom Space made history in 2022 with the first all-private mission to the International Space Station, and the company is ready to do it again, with more focus on having its own commercial space station.
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Concern over problems such as collisions and light pollution have been increasing among government agencies, astronomers and others as the number of launched and proposed low-Earth orbit satellites surges.
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A group of environmental organizations have filed suit against the Federal Aviation Administration for allegedly "failing to fully analyze and mitigate the environmental harms” from a SpaceX launch program.
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Corey Jaskolski is the founder and CEO of Synthetaic, and he has dubbed his ChatGPT-esque satellite image scanning tool Rapid Automatic Image Categorization, or RAIC.
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SpaceX got the OK from the Federal Aviation Administration and will try its luck sending what would be the most powerful rocket to ever blast off from Earth on a suborbital test flight today.
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With a new public awareness campaign there and a new group of supportive backers, an organization based in Maine is trying to turn that state into the next hub for the so-called New Space industry.
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Plus the sharp rise in IoT cyber attacks in 2022, a new milestone for driverless car company Cruise and the going rate for a first-generation iPhone new in the package.
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The fledgling rocket company had been spun off British billionaire Richard Branson's space tourism firm, Virgin Galactic, to take advantage of the burgeoning small-satellite launch market.
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Other companies are hoping to do the same, and a few are already doing so, but Starlink and Amazon are the major players in what some experts are calling a “head-to-head rivalry.”
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British aerospace and defense company Rolls-Royce has received funding from the UK Space Agency to develop a nuclear reactor for space, which could be used to support a future base on the moon for astronauts.
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The company aims to design containers for the future that the Defense Department envisions using on rockets to deliver military and medical supplies anywhere in the world at unprecedented speeds.
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After a successful test fire this month, SpaceX is set to fly its massive Starship and Super Heavy rocket, and is waiting on the Federal Aviation Administration for the green light, according to one company official.
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A team of scientists at UCLA is looking for a very specific type of signal that can’t be generated by any source in the known universe. And they’d like you to help them find it.
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An initiative for bringing girls into science, technology, engineering and mathematics is nearly tripling the size of its youth ambassador program this year, hoping to inspire interest in space-related studies and careers.
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SpaceX ignited a record 31 rocket engines from South Texas all on Thursday, moving the company one more step closer to launching its behemoth Super Heavy rocket for the first time.
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