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Satellite images capture how Russia is shielding its warships in port from threats like Ukraine's exploding drone boats
Russia placed floating barges at the entrance of the Novorossiysk port, which has become a crucial …
Jake Epstein
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Amazon launches its first internet satellites as Jeff Bezos looks to rival SpaceX's Starlink
The satellites were prototypes for Project Kuiper, Amazon's $10 billion plan to create a constellat…
Polly Thompson
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A veteran who hadn't used his army medical training in decades helped save a fellow British Airways passenger whose foot was 'hanging' off
Hemal Patel hadn't used his combat-medical training in 20 years but stepped up to help a passenger …
Joshua Zitser
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What went wrong at Virgin Orbit? 4 red flags signaled trouble for Richard Branson's satellite launch firm.
Richard Branson's Virgin Orbit filed for bankruptcy protection after laying off staff, not securing…
Kate Duffy
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Richard Branson's Virgin Orbit says its rocket suffered an 'anomaly,' stopping it from taking 9 satellites to orbit
Cosmic Girl, a repurposed Boeing 747, took off and released Virgin Orbit's LauncherOne, but the roc…
Kate Duffy
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SpaceX's internet has changed our lives — and saved us money — say some Starlink users
One customer said he couldn't video call his doctor before SpaceX's Starlink internet, while anothe…
Kate Duffy
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Elon Musk says SpaceX has sent 15,000 Starlink internet kits to Ukraine over the past 3 months
This is the first time SpaceX has announced the number of Starlink kits delivered to Ukraine since …
Kate Duffy
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Satellite images showing thousands of craters at a battle site in eastern Ukraine capture just how intense the 'savage' artillery fight there actually is
In a nightly speech on Monday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that Russia has focused…
Azmi Haroun
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Satellites could soon beam clean power down to Earth — all details here
The idea of space-based weapons has been orbiting around and now space agencies are thinking about …
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Rise in the number of satellites are threatening orbital space around Earth, say scientists
The rapid growth of the anthropogenic space object population, including satellite mega-constellati…
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Satellite images show a plume of methane erupting from the leaking Nord Stream pipelines - take a look
Analysis by the International Methane Emissions Observatory and the Universitat Politècnica de Valè…
Jyoti Mann
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A satellite-internet company snubbed Russia in favor of Elon Musk's SpaceX
OneWeb is a direct competitor with SpaceX's Starlink service as both companies are working to provi…
Grace Kay
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Suspected Nord Stream sabotage shows 'vulnerability' of everything we build on the seabed, top British admiral says
In 2015, a senior British defense official described interference with undersea telecommunications …
Christopher Woody
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The UK's newest aircraft carrier has already encountered a century-old undersea threat
After decades focused elsewhere, navies are reemphasizing anti-submarine warfare in order counter a…
Vivienne Machi
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Richard Branson's Virgin Orbit to go public in SPAC merger valuing the satellite launch company at $3.2 billion
Virgin Orbit in January took 10 small satellites to Earth's orbit for NASA in its first successful …
Carla Mozée
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The Perisher: Inside the grueling test the Royal Navy uses to pick its submarine commanders
"You see people laid bare psychologically," a British submarine officer who passed the Perisher tol…
Vivienne Machi
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Deep-sea divers helped solve a century-old U-boat mystery in the waters between the UK and France
British divers helped confirm the identity of two German U-boats found at the bottom of the English…
Vivienne Machi
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Elon Musk's Starlink satellite internet is acquiring a license to provide blanket coverage to Britain, the Telegraph says
SpaceX's space internet venture would reach remote and rural areas in northern Britain, providing f…
Francis Agustin
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Images from space show California's forests and lakes drying out in a record mega-drought
Satellite images show the climate crisis playing out across the western US. Drought and heat are tr…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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SpaceX has denied OneWeb's claim that their satellites almost collided - and accused it of deliberately misleading the press
Elon Musk's company SpaceX said it had worked with OneWeb to avoid a satellite collision and that i…