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NASA Gets New Eye to Watch Earth’s Ice Melt

Matthew Fiala — Tue, 18 Sep 2018 16:33:17 +0000

If everything goes as planned today, climate scientists will have a new satellite in the sky to keep a close watch on the melting of Earth’s ice. The new satellite, called ICESat-2, is scheduled to launch in California at 5:46 a.m. Pacific time. The launch will be shown live on nasa.gov. The satellite’s predecessor, ICESat, […]

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Space Pollution Threatens Low-Earth Orbits

Danny Harper — Fri, 06 Dec 2013 21:52:53 +0000

Created by German photographer Michael Najjar, “Space Debris I” is an amazing representation of the satellites, space junk, and everything else currently orbiting Earth. Beautiful, yet frightening, from just one glance it becomes quite obvious that space pollution is already a major problem for national and corporate interests around the globe. Even after accounting for the proliferation […]

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Solar Wind Power Harvesting Satellite Could Produce 100 Billion Times More Energy Than We Need

Ovidiu Sandru — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 14:03:04 +0000

I've been hearing at least two versions of how we should construct an orbital power station, that would harness the Sun's power and transmit it through lasers or microwaves to Earth. Those concepts, along with classic solar and wind power fade when compared to this one.

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