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Suborbital space tourism finally arrives | FCC prepares to run public C-band auction | The big four in the U.S. launch industry — United Launch Alliance, SpaceX, Blue Origin and Northrop Grumman — hope to be one of two providers that will receive five-year contracts later this year to launch national security payloads starting in 2022. | China’s launch rate stays high | The International Space Station is the largest ever crewed object in space.

 
Why do we still have to use...
Share The holiday season is here, and for many of us, this means flying across the country to see family or–if we’re lucky–across the world to escape the winter. In either case, boarding a plane in the US means being greeted with the familiar instruction to turn portable electronic devices onto airplane mode or turn them off entirely. The reason for this policy has long been that cell phones might interfere with aircraft systems. But the EU lifted its...

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This tiny smartphone proves size doesn’t matter
Share We may earn revenue from the products available on this page and participate in affiliate programs. Learn more › Techies everywhere are freaking out over the NanoPhone. Why? It’s an Android smartphone that’s smaller than a credit card. People are grabbing them for their micro appeal (they’re great for travel) or as a backup for their primary phone. We’re slashing the price of this mini smartphone to $89.97 during our end-of-year sale and making shipping free—a 50 percent...

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Did you know Windows 11 Pro is...
Share We may earn revenue from the products available on this page and participate in affiliate programs. Learn more › Remember when Windows 10 first came out? Those were the good old days. It seemed like they’d last forever. Well, they didn’t. In a few months, Microsoft will no longer support Windows 10. Windows 10 is dead. Long live Windows 11.  Windows 11 Pro is an advanced operating system edition designed for professional and business users. However, it can...

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The mystery surrounding two severed Baltic subsea...
Share A massive Chinese cargo ship suspected of intentionally severing a pair of fiber optic cables in the Baltic Sea has left the area amid an ongoing international investigation. Cables like these, which are the veins connecting the global internet, have been at the center of suspicious maritime activity in recent years that has resulted in an uptick of outages. In this case, the ship had remained motionless in the Kattegat strait between Sweden and Denmark for months as...

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Ken Freeman Receives Air Traffic Control Association...
Air Traffic Control Association (ATCA) Award to the NASA ATM-X Digital Information Platform (DIP) TeamIn November 2024, the Digital Information Platform (DIP) team received the prestigious Industry Award from the Air Traffic Control Association (ATCA) at the annual ATCA Connect Conference in Washington, DC. The award recognized the team’s efforts in supporting NASA’s Sustainable Flight National Partnership (SFNP), which aims for net-zero carbon emissions from aviation by 2050.  The DIP sub-project focuses on increasing access to digital aviation information to enable efficient and sustainable airspace operations.  DIP team has...

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Science Done by Volunteers Highlighted at December’s...
More than 30,000 scientists gathered in Washington, D.C. during the second week of December – many to show off the work of NASA’s science volunteers! The American Geophysical Union held its annual meeting of professionals this month – the world’s largest gathering of Earth and Space Scientists. Here’s what they were talking about. Eighteen NASA-sponsored project team members presented discoveries made with volunteers on topics from solar eclipses to global freshwater lake monitoring and  exoplanet research.<!–> Overall, 175 posters...

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