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More and more satellites are being sent to space. Most of them move in what is known as low Earth orbit, about 1,000 kilometres from Earth. One of the reasons for this increase is the growth in the uses of satellites, the more traditional ones such as meteorological or military, can now also be used to provide internet to remote places. "The space race is growing and growing," Gisela Süss of the European Space Agency (ESA) told Euronews. According to ESA data, there are some 12,500 satellites in Earth orbit. "Now, for example, we have constellations being launched into space from the United St...
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A SpaceX Falcon, Heavy rocket, has launched a hurricane-hunting GOES -U weather satellite into orbit, completing a fleet of four at the heart of a €10 billion upgrade to the nation's forecasting infrastructure. The satellite's launch was delayed after forecasters predicted a 70% chance of late afternoon storms. It took off from the Kennedy Space Centre in Cape Canaveral at 5:26 pm EDT (11.26 pm ET), roughly 10 minutes late. The GOES-U satellite was propelled by more than five million pounds of thrust from the 27 engines at the base of three strapped-together first-stage boosters. After helping...
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Elon Musk travelled to Indonesia’s resort island of Bali on Sunday to launch Starlink's satellite internet service in the world’s largest archipelago nation. Wearing a green Batik shirt, Musk was greeted with a garland of flower petals at a community health clinic in Denpasar, the provincial capital of Bali, where he launched the Starlink service alongside Indonesian ministers. Indonesia, a vast archipelago of 17,000 islands sprawled across three time zones with a population of more than 270 million, has been trying for years to secure deals with Musk's Tesla on battery investment and for Musk...
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Russia on Thursday successfully test-launched a new heavy-lift rocket from its Far Eastern space complex, a lift-off that comes after two aborted attempts earlier this week. The first attempt to launch the Angara-A5 rocket from the Vostochny spaceport on Tuesday was cancelled about two minutes before the scheduled liftoff due to a failure of the pressurization system of the oxidizer tank in the central block of the rocket. The second attempted launch on Wednesday was also aborted by the automatic safety system, which registered a flaw in the engine start control mechanism, said Yuri Borisov, h...
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