NewsSpace

Starlink’s Dishy McFlatface internet now available for Boaty McBoatfaces — just $5,000 per month

July 8, 2022
Starlink’s internet-from-space service continues expanding to new use cases with the launch of Starlink Maritime. What started in the home before expanding to stationary RVs is now available for boats on the move, at a cost of $5,000 a month. SpaceX is targeting merchant vessels, oil rigs, and wealthy owners of superyachts with the service. Starlink Maritime also requires a one-time $10,000…
Read more
NewsSpace

NASA Helps Decipher How Some Distant Planets Have Clouds of Sand

July 8, 2022
A new study using archival observations by the now-retired Spitzer Space Telescope found a common trait among distant worlds where the exotic clouds form. Most clouds on Earth are made of water, but beyond our planet they come in many chemical varieties. The top of Jupiter’s atmosphere, for example, is blanketed in yellow-hued clouds made of ammonia and ammonium hydrosulfide. And on worlds…
Read more
NewsSpace

The FCC authorizes SpaceX’s Starlink system to be used on vehicles in motion

July 1, 2022
Today, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) granted SpaceX authorization to use its Starlink satellite internet system on vehicles in motion — including cars, trucks, boats, and aircraft. It’s a big win for SpaceX’s Starlink system, potentially opening up the service to a more diverse range of use cases and customers. SpaceX requested regulatory approval from the FCC in March of last…
Read more
NewsSpace

My Favorite Martian Image: ‘Enchanted’ Rocks at Jezero Crater

June 30, 2022
Not even Obi-Wan Kenobi could convince Perseverance’s Katie Stack Morgan that these are not the rocks she’s looking for. Ask any space explorer, and they’ll have a favorite photograph or two from their mission. For Katie Stack Morgan, the deputy project scientist for NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover, the first close-up image of layered rocks at the base of Jezero Crater’s ancient river…
Read more