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TAMPA, Fla. — Yahsat ordered a pair of low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites from Airbus amid a $1.1 billion program for its next two geostationary broadband spacecraft, the Emirati operator announced June 10. The companies said the LEO satellites would be based on Arrow, a satellite platform derived from the 150-kilogram spacecraft Airbus helped build for

Two juvenile elephants greet each other in Samburu National Reserve in Kenya George Wittemyer Elephants may be the only animals besides humans to come up with arbitrary names for each other, according to an analysis of recordings using machine learning. The analysis found that some calls from African savannah elephants (Loxodonta africana) seem to contain

It’s official: United Nations declares 2025 the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology – Physics World Skip to main content Close search menu Discover more from Physics World Copyright © 2024 by IOP Publishing Ltd and individual contributors Read the original article here

WASHINGTON — The Space Development Agency is pushing prime contractors to line up secondary and tertiary suppliers for key satellite components amid fears of supply chain shortfalls that could delay the agency’s ambitious schedule for deploying a new proliferated architecture in low-Earth orbit. Col. Alexander Rasmussen, chief of SDA’s Tracking Layer program, said the agency

High temperatures hit Joshua Tree, California, on 5 June 2024 Gina Ferazzi/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images Mexico has been experiencing a severe heatwave due to a massive heat dome that has been affecting the country for weeks. Now this system has extended northwards into the southern US, causing extreme temperatures across a large region.

Teaching nuclear physics using data rather than models, recovering helium from party balloons – Physics World Skip to main content Close search menu Discover more from Physics World Copyright © 2024 by IOP Publishing Ltd and individual contributors Read the original article here

SPACEPORT AMERICA, N.M. — Virgin Galactic’s VSS Unity spaceplane conducted its final commercial mission June 8, taking a Turkish researcher and three private astronauts on a suborbital spaceflight. VSS Unity, attached to its VMS Eve mothership aircraft, took off from Spaceport America in southern New Mexico at 10:31 a.m. Eastern. Unity released from Eve at

SpaceX successfully launched its Starship rocket on the same day that Boeing’s Starliner craft made its first crewed flight, a sign that the space industry is hotting up Read the original article here

A love of triangles, the physics of spin, volcanic science and Pascal’s papers: micro reviews of the best recent books – Physics World Skip to main content Close search menu Discover more from Physics World Copyright © 2024 by IOP Publishing Ltd and individual contributors Read the original article here

TAMPA, Fla. —  Planet’s first hyperspectral satellite is ready for launch to help push the Earth observation operator to profitability by early next year. Tanager-1 has arrived at California’s Vandenberg Space Force Base ahead of a SpaceX rideshare mission that could take off as soon as July, the operator said June 6 amid earnings results.

Two teeth, viewed from multiple angles, from the newly identified ancient ape Buronius manfredschmidi Böhme et al., 2024, PLOS ONE, CC-BY 4.0 A tiny, vegetarian great ape may have lived in western Europe 11.6 million years ago. Smaller and lighter than any other known great ape, the newly discovered 10-kilogram primate was a skilled climber

Equal1 wins IOP’s qBIG Prize for quantum innovation – Physics World Skip to main content Close search menu Discover more from Physics World Copyright © 2024 by IOP Publishing Ltd and individual contributors Read the original article here

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft docked with the International Space Station on its first crewed flight June 6 after working through problems with the spacecraft’s thrusters. The spacecraft docked with the forward port on the station’s Harmony module at 1:34 p.m. Eastern, nearly 27 hours after its launch from Florida on the

The domestication of horses began on the Eurasian steppes Lina Shatalova/iStockphoto/Ge​tty Images Ancient breeders dramatically shortened the natural generation times of horses starting about 4200 years ago, according to a genetic study of hundreds of ancient horses. This intensive breeding led to a massive expansion of those bloodlines across Eurasia within a few centuries, says

Silverstone racetrack hosts Institute of Physics summer festival – Physics World Skip to main content Close search menu Discover more from Physics World Copyright © 2024 by IOP Publishing Ltd and individual contributors Read the original article here

Join us for an engaging session to explore how both the United States and Japanese space agencies and industry are approaching the challenges of space sustainability. Why do both countries feel it is a priority? How have the government and space agencies taken action to support solutions? What innovations is the industry pursuing and why?

Starliner launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on 5 June Joe Raedle/Getty Images Boeing has successfully launched its Starliner spacecraft with a crew aboard for the first time, on the third attempt. The milestone launch means that NASA now has two commercial options for getting astronauts to space: Boeing and SpaceX. Starliner launched from Cape Canaveral

Simple equation predicts how quickly animals flap their wings – Physics World Skip to main content Close search menu Discover more from Physics World Copyright © 2024 by IOP Publishing Ltd and individual contributors Read the original article here