1 April 2020Author: Ryo Hinata-Yamaguchi, Pusan National UniversityIn April 2020, Japan will establish the Space Domain Mission Unit (SDMU) within the Japan Air Self-Defense Force, with the unit dedicated to protecting satellites vital to national security. Although the move has attracted much interest, the establishment of the SDMU was no…
bubmagApril 1, 2020
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bubmagMarch 31, 2020
The increasing amount of satellite clusters, often launched into orbit by tech giants, are interfering with the work of astronomers worldwide. A Russian startup claims to have a solution. In any other year, looking up at the night sky, you’d see galaxies, planets, constellations. Perhaps the odd moving light that…
bubmagMarch 31, 2020
After 5 Years of Construction, 'Space Fence' Finally Declared Operational (spacenews.com) Posted by EditorDavid on Sunday March 29, 2020 @03:59PM from the Space-Force-space-fence dept. An anonymous reader quotes Space News: The space surveillance radar site known as the Space Fence is ready for use after five years in construction, the…
bubmagMarch 29, 2020
United States Space Force officials formally declared initial operational capability and operational acceptance of the Space Fence radar system, located on Kwajalein Island in the Republic of the Marshall Islands, March 27, 2020. Space Fence provides significantly improved space surveillance capabilities to detect and track orbiting objects such as commercial…
bubmagMarch 28, 2020
Just because it's been a few months since we last visited HBO and Damon Lindelof's pseudo-sequel/"remix" of Dave Gibbons/ He-Who-Doesn't-Want-To-Be-Named's classic comic book series Watchmen doesn't mean the cast has stopped thinking about us.In this time of social distancing and self-quarantining caused by the coronavirus pandemic, Regina King, Tim Blake…
bubmagMarch 27, 2020
Superconductivity in nature is extremely rare on Earth, but that might not be the case for the rest of the universe. March 24, 2020 A group of scientists has discovered a number of superconducting materials inside two different meteorites. These two are home to superconductive grains, embedded deep inside them. This discovery…
bubmagMarch 24, 2020
Representative image of a gigantic asteroid hurtling through space, similar to asteroid 1998 OR2. Despite its badging as a potential hazard, asteroid 1998 OR2 poses very little to absolutely no threat to our planet. Here's why. News18.com Last Updated: March 24, 2020, 5:55 PM IST Share this: Last weekend, the…
bubmagMarch 24, 2020
AI Helping to commercialize space Getty Even before modern computers became a reality, science fiction gave us a plethora of examples of artificial intelligence and smart robots in the context of outer space. From Hal in 2001: A Space Odyssey and the computer on Star Trek to C3PO and R2D2…
bubmagMarch 21, 2020