World-first satellites for commercial science set for launch in 2025
by The Next Web
The Next Web— A British startup aims to launch science satellites into space in 2025 after raising a fresh £2mn. Blue Skies Space has devised a unique business plan for the stargazers. They will be the first-ever science satellites that provide data directly to researchers via a membership model, the company said. The approach offers a new route to the secrets of our universe. Currently, researchers rely on government agencies such as NASA and ESA to access space data. Unfortunately, this supply doesn't...
NASA Science (.gov)—First Light! TESS Shares First Science Image in Hunt to Find New Worlds. NASA’s newest planet hunter, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), is now providing valuable data to help scientists discover and study exciting new exoplanets, or planets beyond our solar system.
Drudge Report—Satellite Image Shows Construction of World's First Floating City. A floating city, considered the world's first, is starting to take shape in the turquoise waters of the Indian Ocean.Satellite imagery provided exclusively to Newsweek by Maxar Technologies shows the state of construction of the Maldives Floating City, a development of modular floating platforms that is scheduled to be completed in 2027.The "island city," the brainchild of the Maldivian government in partnership with the Dutch architectural firm Waterstudio, is sprouting in a lagoon about 10...
WESH—SpaceX set to launch another batch of Starlink satellites from Cape Canaveral. SpaceX is expected to launch another batch of 23 Starlink satellites from Cape Canaveral on Thursday. The Falcon 9 rocket is set to take off...