All posts tagged "Satellitecommunications"

MERRITT ISLAND, Florida — Amazon and Jeff Bezos have big plans to launch thousands of satellites from the Space Coast in an effort to play catchup and compete with Elon Musk and SpaceX’s Starlink service. To speed up the process, it’s going to build a $120 million facility to prep those satellites just miles from the launch pad. The company announced it has agreed to expand into Florida with its Project Kuiper, the name for its future broadband satellite network, by setting up a 100,000-square-foot processing facility at a nearly 80-acre site at the former Shuttle Landing Facility at Kennedy S......

Space is vast. But are certain parts of space in danger of becoming overcrowded with Internet satellites and cosmic junk? Concern has been increasing among government agencies, astronomers and others as the number of launched and proposed low-Earth orbit satellites surges. Worries center on the increased risk of collisions that create debris fields capable of taking out nearby satellites; bright reflections that harm scientific astronomy and change the night sky; atmospheric pollution from thousands of deorbiting satellites burning up every few years; and radio signal interference that blocks ......

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. — Artemis I isn’t just a mission to orbit the moon. It’s the beginning of a new era for NASA that promises to not just return humans to the lunar surface, but to press on to Mars. “We are explorers and adventurers as a species,” said NASA Administrator Bill Nelson at a news conference Saturday. “That basically is the fulfillment of our destiny. But in that exploration, we’re going to learn new things and develop new things that are going to improve ― just as it’s been under our space program — our lives here on Earth.” That’s the high-minded end goal of the Artemis p......