April 2017
Sky-fi dawn of the space internet era
... approaches to providing internet connections from the sky or space - dubbed ‘sky-fi’ - bring with them both technical and...event in Christchurch, New Zealand, in 2016. From the sky Facebook’s proposed drones would be powered electrically, using solar...
August 2020
Battle for the night sky - from telescopes to ad-breaks
... about the formation of the planetary systems, were only possible through concentrated efforts in safeguarding the radio sky from interference”. Radio frequency spectrum usage is already at a premium, and the rapid expansion of applications, not just...
31 March 2021
A new skyglow effect produced by space objects is brightening our night skies, new study says.
... 40 years ago to define “light polluted” locations. "Our primary motivation was to estimate the potential contribution to night sky brightness from external sources, such as space objects in Earth's orbit," said Miroslav Kocifaj of the Slovak Academy...
August 2016
Commercial space development spurs trend for public-private collaboration
Could the Catalina Sky Survey be improved to find even more asteroids - especially those like 164121 that might threaten Earth? In 2014, ...
06 September 2017
First ever voice call by nano-satellite technology
... use narrowband connectivity provided by the tiny technological marvels to deliver a voice call. Talking of the achievement yesterday, Sky and Space Global’s CEO and Managing Director, Mr. Meir Moalem said; “we fulfil our promise to our shareholders...
22 February 2021
Not stars, but 25,000 supermassive black holes!
...new methods to convert the radio signals into images of the sky,” says research leader Francesco de Gasperin, at Universität Hamburg,...emission is around 3 metres in length. Observing the sky at long radio wavelengths is complicated. For starters, free...
