Canadian Government Awards EO Satellite Contracts to Calian, Kepler, MDA Space 2d ago Via Satellite · Mark Holmes Earth Observation & Remote SensingSatellite Manufacturing
Viasat Secures PTS-G U.S. Space Force SSC Swarm 1 Contract 2d ago Via Satellite · Mark Holmes Satellite CommunicationsGround Segment & Networks
SpaceX Goes Public – Will You Take Stock in the Future? 2d ago Inside Outer Space · Leonard David Launch ServicesSatellite Communications
In 1994, a park ranger rappelling into a sandstone canyon 150 kilometres from Sydney found a living stand of trees known until then only from 90-million-year-old fossils and presumed long extinct, and fewer than 100 wild Wollemi pines still exist in a grove whose coordinates the Australian government keeps classified. 2d ago Space Daily · Space Daily Editorial Team
The critical robot arm on the ISS isn't working properly, but NASA has a plan to fix it 2d ago Space.com · Elizabeth Howell
VCs Predict the SpaceX IPO Will Lift the Entire Industry 2d ago Payload · Douglas Gorman Launch ServicesSatellite Communications
My quiet obsession with satellites — and how they're ruining everything 2d ago Space.com · Jamie Carter
Op-ed: Up to a Trillion Dollars is About to Chase Space. What Kind of Economy Will Be Built? 2d ago Payload · Kevin M. O'Connell and Kelli Kedis Ogborn
An email with the subject line “ILOVEYOU” infected 45 million computers in 24 hours after it was released in May 2000 — disabling email systems at the Pentagon, the CIA, and most of the world’s largest corporations — and the 23-year-old Filipino college dropout who wrote it now runs a phone repair booth in Manila, never prosecuted because cybercrime was not yet illegal in the Philippines 2d ago Space Daily · Space Daily Editorial Team
Around 40% of US teens are online ‘almost constantly’ — nearly double the share a decade ago — yet nearly half of them say social media is mostly bad for people their age 2d ago Space Daily · Space Daily Editorial Team
Breathable oxygen has now been produced on the surface of Mars — generated between 2021 and 2023 by a NASA experiment about the size of a toaster, riding inside the Perseverance rover — in the first time humans have ever made air on another planet, opening the door to bringing astronauts safely home one day 2d ago Space Daily · Space Daily Editorial Team
SpaceX goes public with a mind-bogglingly historic IPO. The space industry may never be the same. 2d ago Space.com · Leonard David Launch ServicesSatellite Communications
A 2020 study in Sweden found that dogs can sense heat and thermal radiation with the tip of their nose — meaning they can detect a warm object across a room even with their eyes closed — making them only the second mammal on Earth known to possess this ability, alongside the vampire bat, which uses it to find blood vessels beneath the skin of sleeping prey 2d ago Space Daily · Space Daily Editorial Team
The people of Okinawa, Japan only eat until they are about 80 percent full, then stop — and the practice has been linked in multiple peer-reviewed studies to lower rates of cardiovascular disease, slower biological aging, and a measurable extension of healthy lifespan, in one of the simplest evidence-backed longevity practices ever identified 2d ago Space Daily · Space Daily Editorial Team
In 1932, the Australian government deployed soldiers with two machine guns and 10,000 rounds of ammunition to wage war on roughly 20,000 emus destroying wheat crops in Western Australia — and after weeks of campaign, the soldiers had killed only a few hundred birds, in the only war on record in which birds officially won 2d ago Space Daily · Space Daily Editorial Team
In 1962, a Mariner 1 probe bound for Venus was destroyed 293 seconds after launch because a single missing overbar in a line of guidance code told the rocket it was veering off course when it wasn’t, and Arthur C. Clarke later called it the most expensive hyphen in history. 2d ago Space Daily · Space Daily Editorial Team
When 61 UK companies cut the working week to four days with no cut in pay, the worry was probably output — but revenue stayed roughly flat, burnout fell for 71% of staff, and 56 of the 61 firms decided not to go back 2d ago Space Daily · Mal James
