US Military Shuts Down Longest-Running Intelligence System in American History
A satellite launched in 1970 spent decades watching for nuclear missile launches, but the US military has finally shut down the program.
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Google’s Project Suncatcher aims to anchor AI data centers to orbiting solar arrays
Google sends fridge-sized satellite with AI chips into orbit, testing the sun as a limitless power source for space data centers.
Google’s Data Center In Orbit Relies on SpaceX Launching Starship 1,600 Times
Google sends a TPU into orbit aboard SpaceX's Starship to test space data centers, requiring 1,800 launches to reach orbit.
NASA pushed Treasury, hid its signals in music, and changed how government handles emergencies
A swift observatory, doomed to fall, was rescued by a satellite wrought in nine months — yet the mission was lost unto the heavens.
Starship Reaches Orbit on Debut Flight, Drops 26 Next-Generation Starlinks
SpaceX's Starship reaches orbit, deploying 26 next-gen Starlinks in a historic first test flight from Texas.
US Cold War-Era Spy Satellite Explodes Above Earth — and Nobody Knows Why
A Cold War spy satellite exploded in orbit, and experts cannot say why it broke apart or how many pieces it made.
SpaceX’s Starship Heads for Its First Orbit Test Around Earth
SpaceX's Starship launches from Texas aiming to orbit Earth for the first time, deploying 26 Starlink satellites.
Data centers face rising heat and power costs — one company thinks the solution is orbiting Earth
AI data centers face Earth's water and power limits. Google, SpaceX, and startups push the hardware into orbit, powered by the sun.
Google’s Suncatcher orbital data center heads for space on October 1
Google's Suncatcher satellite, carrying four TPU chips, launches Oct 1 atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 to test orbital AI data centers.
US-India Satellite Captures a Volcano’s Hourglass-Shaped Plume Over the Pacific
A joint US-India satellite captures time-lapse video of a volcano erupting after nearly five centuries of silence.
Satellite data now makes it possible to watch Australia’s forests change almost as they happen
A scheme is devised whereby the forests of a far land may be watched near-instantly from the heavens above, ere ruin befall them.