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Design an interstellar 'generation ship' to spend decades among the stars with Project Hyperion competition
A new design competition, dubbed Project Hyperion, is calling for submissions for the design of a crewed interstellar generation ship.
Satellites can now spot plastic trash on Earth's beaches from space (photo)
"This is incredibly exciting, as up to now we have not had a tool for detecting plastics in coastal environments from space."
Asteroid-mining company AstroForge gets 1st-ever FCC license for commercial deep-space mission
AstroForce has received a commercial license for operating and communicating with a mission headed to a near-Earth asteroid, the first to be granted for beyond Earth orbit.
Can we solve the satellite air pollution problem? Here are 4 possible fixes
New technologies including recoverable satellites and in-orbit space debris recycling could help solve the satellite air pollution problem and prevent a new ecological crisis in the future.
NASA's solar-sailing spacecraft has a bent boom and is still tumbling in Earth orbit (photo)
The technology-demonstrating Advanced Composite Solar Sail System has a bent boom in Earth orbit, but NASA says it shouldn't be a big deal.
Breakthrough coming? Iceland could get solar power from space in 2030
A British startup plans to supply solar power from space to Icelanders by 2030, in what could be the world's first demonstration of the novel renewable energy source.
SpaceX's Starlink internet flies on a Boeing 777 jet for the 1st time
SpaceX's Starlink satellites provided internet service on a Boeing 777 jet for the first time today (Oct. 22), during a Qatar Airways flight from Doha to London.
Remote-control robots could help humanity explore the moon and Mars
Teleoperated rovers could soon be working on the moon, with human controllers on Earth manipulating the rovers' tools virtually.
