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Author of the article: Julie Kotsis Shawn Bastien displays a video on his cell phone on Thursday, October 21, 2021 of a possible meteor that flew over the skies of Windsor recently. Photo by Dan Janisse /Windsor Star Was it a meteor, a fireball, space debris? No one knows for…

by Sandra Erwin — October 21, 2021 Rendering of space debris and defunct launcher stages in the geostationary ring. Credit: European Space Agency Investors may be wary of backing nascent companies without a guarantee of future procurements by the government WASHINGTON — U.S. Space Force generals made headlines recently calling…

Zipmex has released a fun, arcade-style mobile game where players will ‘fly to the moon’ avoiding space debris and collect crypto along the way to achieve the highest score. Players will get the opportunity to win A$1300 worth of crypto and an iPhone 13 Pro if they refer other players…

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On Wednesday Elon Musk’s commercial space company SpaceX launched four astronauts into orbit as part of Inspiration4, the first all-civilian spaceflight mission. They will return to Earth three days later, having made history. Yet apart from collecting data to add to a robust body of research on human health and…

by Jeff Foust — September 15, 2021 Maj. Gen. DeAnna Burt said a commercial orbital debris removal capability would be "very valuable" since it would avoid concerns that one developed by the military would also be used as a weapon. Credit: SpaceNews/Jeff Foust WAILEA, Hawaii — A Space Force general…

Home News Tech Apple computer company co-founder Steve Wozniak, seen here in a 2010 photo, is launching the new company Privateer Space to clean up space junk. (Image credit: Marcel Antonisse/ANP/AFP via Getty Images) Apple's co-founder plans to bring disruption to a new industry: the long-standing effort to clean up…

Leer en Español Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak is starting a private space company called Privateer. The company has been founded alongside Alex Fielding, who was a member of the first iMac team and founded “Wheels of Zeus” (‘WoZ’) in 2002 – a company that created wireless location trackers - but…

Engineers are set to test a device that could pull defunct spacecraft and used rocket parts back to Earth, allowing them to burn up harmlessly in the atmosphere. Researchers at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, are launching a prototype drag sail Thursday aboard a rocket made by Firefly Aerospace,…