... mission was to develop technology that can be sent deep into space in swarms, with each individual satellite beaming back its own stream of information. The Kicksat mothership reached its orbit and transmitted beacon signals...
... their home for the last several months. Taking a deep breath of the smelly locker room air he beamed and said: “I love space!” A few days and a lifetime later, he landed on the Russian steppes with his...
... go on to play an important role in developing the 1974 Arecibo Message, the most powerful radio broadcast ever deliberately beamed into space. The 1982 Steven Spielberg movie E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial features a lovable alien. The now...
... the inky blackness of space. One of these satellites is nearly 20 years old and after a long, productive lifetime beaming television signals to millions of customers, it has run out of fuel and is drifting in orbit. The other, a brand new...
.... Facebook and Eutelsat have agreed to pay $95 million for a five-year lease on the satellite’s Ka-band spot-beam capacity, with a possible extension for two further years, Space News reported. The satellite is scheduled for...
...reaction, so-called ‘pions’, are channelled via a magnetic nozzle to generate thrust. This antimatter propulsion concept is called ‘beamed core’ antimatter propulsion. The exhaust velocity of the pions would be about 100,000 km/s. However, the thrust...