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The ripples from Intelsat’s $3.1 billion sale to rival satellite operator SES are disrupting and delaying deals for suppliers and other companies further downstream, according to finance experts on an Oct. 22 Satellite Innovation panel. The post SES-Intelsat combination’s far-reaching impact on deal-making appeared first on SpaceNews. Read the original article here

Adding blade-like sails to tankers could reduce their annual fuel consumption by up to 30 per cent, slashing the climate impact of the shipping industry Read the original article here

Cosmic antimatter could be created by annihilating WIMPs – Physics World Skip to main content Discover more from Physics World Copyright © 2024 by IOP Publishing Ltd and individual contributors Read the original article here

This is a customer submitted press release. Submit your press release. Radically accelerating custom bus satellite digital modeling & production with AI-powered MERCURY™ Los Angeles, CA – October 22nd, 2024 – Proteus Space, a trailblazer in rapid space system design, assembly, and deployment, today announced a significant investment from SAIC, a technology integrator focused on

Before now, no one had studied the brain before, during and after taking hormonal birth control Shutterstock / Krakenimages The largest brain imaging study of a woman to date shows that hormonal birth control can decrease brain volume – though it isn’t clear what effect, if any, this has on brain function. Hormonal contraceptives have

Multi-qubit entangled states boost atomic clock and sensor performance – Physics World Skip to main content Discover more from Physics World Copyright © 2024 by IOP Publishing Ltd and individual contributors Read the original article here

TAMPA, Fla. — Luxembourg’s government has backed a major chunk of OQ Technology’s ongoing 30 million euro ($32 million) Series B funding round, according to the Luxembourg-based operator of small narrowband satellites.  OQ Technology announced an investment Oct. 21 from the Luxembourg Space Sector Development (LSSD), which the government co-runs with SES, a multi-orbit satellite fleet

Countries are convening in Colombia to agree on wide-ranging targets to stem biodiversity loss and make a plan to pay for it Read the original article here

Objects with embedded spins could test whether quantum measurement affects gravity – Physics World Skip to main content Discover more from Physics World Copyright © 2024 by IOP Publishing Ltd and individual contributors Read the original article here

TAMPA, Fla. — SpaceX launched 20 spare OneWeb satellites Oct. 20 to strengthen the resiliency of French operator Eutelsat’s rival low Earth orbit (LEO) broadband network. Eutelsat said it had successfully contacted each satellite following lift-off on a Falcon 9 rocket at 1:13 a.m. Eastern from Vandenberg Space Force Base, California. Eutelsat spokesperson Katie Dowd

A Hawaiian story hints at a huge wave that once struck the island of Maui Dawn Jermaill A Hawaiian narrative story involving the wrath of two deities has helped scientists track down remnants of an 8-metre-high tsunami that battered the state’s second largest island, Maui, at least 350 years ago. “Our work breathes new life

Data-intensive PhDs at LIV.INNO prepare students for careers outside of academia – Physics World Skip to main content Discover more from Physics World Copyright © 2024 by IOP Publishing Ltd and individual contributors Read the original article here

MILAN — For many of the more than 11,000 participants at the International Astronautical Congress this year, the biggest news of the week-long conference was not anything that took place within the sprawling convention center here but instead more than 9,000 kilometers away. The latest flight of SpaceX’s Starship/Super Heavy vehicle, which took place in

Illustration of neuron activity in a rat’s brain Connect Images/Alamy Strengthening activity of some brainwaves in rats’ while they sleep improves their performance on a memory test. If we can boost these in people, it could lead to new treatments for dementia and other memory impairments. Memories are encoded in unique patterns of activity between

Liquid-crystal bifocal lens excels at polarization and edge imaging – Physics World Skip to main content Discover more from Physics World Copyright © 2024 by IOP Publishing Ltd and individual contributors Read the original article here

WASHINGTON — SpaceX has been awarded contracts for eight launches under the National Security Space Launch (NSSL) Phase 3 Lane 1 program, the U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command announced Oct. 18. The contracts worth $733.5 million span seven missions for the Space Development Agency (SDA) and one for the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) projected

An ion trap helped create a quantum defect in two places at once ANDREW BROOKES, NATIONAL PHYSICAL LABORATORY/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY Exotic quantum rifts have been created with charged atoms, and they exist in a superposition of being in two places at once. This is a first step towards better understanding the behaviour of such quantum

Century-old photoelectric effect inspires a new search for quantum gravity – Physics World Skip to main content Discover more from Physics World Copyright © 2024 by IOP Publishing Ltd and individual contributors Read the original article here