Archive for the 'Space' Category
SpaceX Starshield: Supporting National Security
December 3rd, 2022Here’s yet another one for your Better Rural Broadband file folder. haha Via: SpaceX: Starshield leverages SpaceX’s Starlink technology and launch capability to support national security efforts. While Starlink is designed for consumer and commercial use, Starshield is designed for government use, with an initial focus on three areas…
‘We Cannot Afford to be Ill Prepared’: Research Hub Wants to Prepare Humanity for Potential Proof of Alien Life
November 16th, 2022Via: CTV News: A new research hub at the University of St Andrews in Scotland is dedicated to preparing humanity for potential proof of extraterrestrial life. “Will we ever get a message from E.T.? We don’t know,” John Elliott, the hub’s co-ordinator and a University of St Andrews computer scientist, said in a news release. […]
NASA Finally Launched Artemis 1 Moon Mission
November 16th, 2022Via: space.com: NASA’s epic Artemis 1 moon mission is finally underway. Artemis 1 lifted off today (Nov. 16) at 1:47 a.m. EST (0647 GMT) from Pad 39B here at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, marking the debut of NASA’s huge new Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and kicking off a 25-day journey to the moon and […]
Scientists Working on Official ‘Alien Contact Protocol’
November 5th, 2022Via: Live Science: If extraterrestrial life sent us a message tomorrow, how would humanity respond? According to researchers, we don’t know yet — and that’s a problem. That’s why, for the first time in 35 years, a team of policy experts and scientists have united to establish a set of alien-contact protocols for the entire […]
It’s That Time of Year Again: U.S. Government’s Idiotic UFO Report 2022
October 31st, 2022Via: Daily Mail: A classified report due to be sent to Congress Monday lists more than 150 cases of unexplained UFO encounters by military and government officials in the past year, sources told DailyMail.com exclusively. The 22-page report, compiled by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), analyzes 366 cases – and only […]
Russia Strikes Ukrainian Infrastructure, Says It May Destroy Western Satellites
October 27th, 2022Starlink. Via: Reuters: A senior Russian government official raised the possibility that Moscow could shoot down commercial Western satellites being used to help Ukraine’s war effort, as Russia pressed ahead with its bombing campaign against Ukrainian infrastructure. If acted on, the threat would inevitably raise fears about spiralling escalation of the eight-month-old conflict and the […]
And Now… NASA Announces UFO Research Team
October 25th, 2022Via: National Aeronautics and Space Administration: NASA has selected 16 individuals to participate in its independent study team on unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP). Observations of events in the sky that cannot be identified as aircraft or as known natural phenomena are categorized as UAPs. The independent study will begin on Monday, Oct. 24. Over the […]
Starlink Signals Can Be Reverse-Engineered To Work Like GPS
October 21st, 2022Via: MIT Technology Review: Todd Humphreys’s offer to SpaceX was simple. With a few software tweaks, its rapidly growing Starlink constellation could also offer ultra-precise position, navigation, and timing. The US Army, which funds Humphreys’s work at the University of Texas at Austin, wanted a backup to its venerable, and vulnerable, GPS system. Could Starlink […]
Renowned Arecibo Telescope Won’t Be Rebuilt
October 17th, 2022Via: Nature: After a world-famous radio telescope at Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico collapsed two years ago, many scientists hoped that the US National Science Foundation (NSF), which runs the facility, would eventually build a new one to replace it. Instead, the agency has announced that it will establish an educational centre for science, technology, […]
Musk Demands Pentagon Pay for Starlink Usage in Ukraine
October 14th, 2022Update: Made You Look, Musk Will Keep Starlink Active in Ukraine — Via: PC Magazine: SpaceX may have to stop providing Starlink terminals in Ukraine unless the US government steps in to cover the costs, the company writes in a letter to the Pentagon. According to CNN(Opens in a new window), SpaceX wrote to the […]
