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Spanish startup Sateliot joins race for cheap space connections
By Inti Landauro and Miguel Vidal NIGRAN, Spain (Reuters) - Spanish space startup Sateliot is raising cash to send 100 microwave oven-sized satellites to the orbit, entering a crowded race for a slice...
Thomson Reuters Mar 07, 2024
Patagonia cave paintings are earliest found in South America
By Miguel Lo Bianco NEUQUEN, Argentina (Reuters) - Archaeologists have discovered the earliest dated cave paintings in South America in Argentine Patagonia, dating back 8,200 years. The 895 paintings ...
Thomson Reuters Mar 07, 2024
Nobel laureates sound alarm as Argentina cuts science funding
BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Sixty-eight Nobel laureates in chemistry, medicine, economics, and physics sent a letter on Wednesday to Argentine President Javier Milei voicing concern that cuts to science ...
Thomson Reuters Mar 06, 2024
Russia and China are considering putting a nuclear power unit on the Moon -RIA
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia and China are considering putting a nuclear power unit on the Moon around 2033-35, Yuri Borisov, the head of Russia's space agency Roscosmos said on Tuesday, the RIA state ne...
Thomson Reuters Mar 05, 2024
Italy to host main control centre for EU satellite constellation
ORTUCCHIO, Italy (Reuters) - A space centre in the heart of Italy is set to host the main control site for the IRIS EU satellite constellation, Italy's industry minister said on Monday. The Fucino Spa...
Thomson Reuters Mar 04, 2024
Scientists reveal secrets of Earth's magnificent desert star dunes
By Will Dunham (Reuters) - They are among the wonders of our deserts: star dunes, the vaguely pyramid-shaped sand formations up to about 1,000 feet (300 meters) tall with arms stretching out from a ce...
Thomson Reuters Mar 04, 2024
SpaceX launches its eighth long-duration crew to orbit for NASA
By Joe Skipper and Steve Gorman CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - A SpaceX rocket lifted off from Florida on Sunday night carrying a crew of three U.S. astronauts and a Russian cosmonaut on their wa...
Thomson Reuters Mar 03, 2024
NASA to discontinue $2 billion satellite servicing project on higher costs, schedule delays
(Reuters) - NASA said on Friday it is shutting down a more than $2 billion project to test satellite servicing like fueling in space, citing higher costs and schedule delays. The space agency said in ...
Thomson Reuters Mar 03, 2024
In risky moon business, Intuitive Machines sets sights on second moonshot
By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Intuitive Machines and its space-cargo customers expect the company to emerge stronger from its problem-plagued moon landing this week, with improvements set fo...
Thomson Reuters Feb 29, 2024
US moon lander Odysseus nears shutdown a week after sideways landing
By Joey Roulette and Steve Gorman (Reuters) - Odysseus, the first U.S. spacecraft to land on the moon in half a century, was nearing shutdown on Thursday, as scientists watched out for the final signa...
Thomson Reuters Feb 29, 2024




