From satellites to space data centers: Why low earth orbit is attracting billions in investment

Big Tech companies including Nvidia and Elon Musk's SpaceX are making large bets on a new layer of critical infrastructure ...
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Reinforced 26%-efficient solar cells show promise for low Earth orbit use

NASA researchers have developed reinforced perovskite-based solar cells targeting roughly 26% efficiency, engineered ...

SpaceX reaches milestone of 10,000 Starlink satellites in orbit

For most of the space age, our presence in Earth orbit has been relatively modest. Until the beginning of the 21st century, ...

Space junk is cluttering Earth's low orbit with high-velocity projectiles and it's getting worse

Thousands of satellites are being launched into space at low Earth orbit, joining hundreds of thousands of pieces of space ...
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Google’s proposed data center in orbit will face issues with space debris

The rapid expansion of artificial intelligence and cloud services has led to a massive demand for computing power. The surge has strained data infrastructure, which requires lots of electricity to ...
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NASA confirms a new quasi-moon orbiting the Earth until 2083

Earth has just acquired a new best friend in space – a small asteroid named 2025 PN7. Not quite a moon, it has been moving in quiet company with our planet for decades, pacing our planet in nearly ...

Smile mission set for April 9 launch to image Earth's magnetic field in X-rays

The Smile mission is set to launch on a Vega-C rocket from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana on Thursday, April 9, at 08:29 ...
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Inside the Audacious Plan to Bag Asteroids and Drag Them Into Near-Orbit for Mining

Schematic of a proposed space mining setup that literally bags asteroids. Credit: TransAstra. The aerospace industry has a ...

NASA's DART mission didn't just change the orbit of asteroid it hit

NASA's DART mission didn’t just change the orbit of Dimorphos, the asteroid it hit. It changed the orbit of the larger ...