Archive for the 'Space' Category
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 […]
Kyiv Astronomers Capture “UAPs Everywhere” Using Meteor-Tracking Software
September 30th, 2022This is very strange and fascinating. Via: Chris Lehto:
New Insignia for Air Domain Intelligence Has a UFO
September 24th, 2022Update: Logo Containing UFO Removed Via: The Warzone: “NIM Aviation erroneously posted an unofficial and incorrect logo.” — Slowly, but surely, cranking it up. Via: airdomainintelligence.mil:
Ukraine’s Astronomers Say There Are Tons of UFOs Over Kyiv
September 15th, 2022Hmm. Via: Vice: Ukraine’s airspace has been busy this year—that’s the nature of war. But scientists in the country are looking to the skies and seeing something they didn’t expect: An inordinate number of UFOs, according to a new preprint paper published by Kyiv’s Main Astronomical Observatory in coordination with the country’s National Academy of […]
T-Mobile Will Provide Mobile Phone Services Over SpaceX Starlink Satellite Network
August 26th, 2022It will be a low bandwidth option for when there is no terrestrial mobile network available. It will use existing phones. Via: Ars Technica: SpaceX and T-Mobile announced an ambitious plan on Thursday evening to provide ubiquitous connectivity from space to anyone with a cell phone. The project would pair SpaceX’s Starlink satellite technology with […]
Space Delta 18
August 20th, 2022Via: Wikipedia: Space Delta 18 (DEL 18) is a United States Space Force unit that serves as the National Space Intelligence Center (NSIC). It is headquartered at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio and activated on 24 June 2022.
Senate Intel Committee Wants ‘UAP’ Investigators To Focus On Ones That Are ‘Not Man-Made’
July 27th, 2022What is the point of this charade? Via: The Warzone: Members of the U.S. Senate are criticizing the Pentagon’s slow progress in setting up a new organization and reporting mechanisms, among other things, to address what they claim are “exponentially” growing threats presented by unidentified aerospace and undersea phenomena. Those same legislators also want the […]
Russia to Quit International Space Station ‘After 2024’
July 26th, 2022Via: Al Jazeera: Russia has decided to quit the International Space Station (ISS) after 2024 and focus on creating its own orbital outpost, according to the newly-appointed chief of the country’s space agency. “Of course, we will fulfil all our obligations to our partners, but the decision to leave this station after 2024 has been […]
