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Starlink delays orders by years for unlucky customers who played with the site’s digital map

It was an exciting moment when Starlink rolled out preorders for its satellite internet service in February since it can potentially provide faster speed and better service to those in rural areas or with spotty internet access. But a single feature on the Starlink site is causing preorders to be delayed by years and there appears to be no fix in sight, an issue first spotted by Ars…
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Getting NASA Data to the Ground With Lasers

. Getting NASA Data to the Ground With Lasers Two optical ground stations, including one managed by JPL, will support NASA’s Laser Communications Relay Demonstration mission when it launches this fall. NASA launches satellites…
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How to Find Hidden Oceans on Distant Worlds? Use Chemistry

. How to Find Hidden Oceans on Distant Worlds? Use Chemistry A new study shows how the chemicals in an exoplanet’s atmosphere can, in some cases, reveal whether or not the temperature on its surface is too hot for liquid water. In our solar system, planets are either small and rocky (like Earth) or large and gaseous (like Neptune). But around other…
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You Can Help Train NASA’s Rovers to Better Explore Mars

. You Can Help Train NASA’s Rovers to Better Explore Mars Members of the public can now help teach an artificial intelligence algorithm to recognize scientific features in images taken by NASA’s Perseverance rover. Artificial intelligence, or AI, has enormous potential to change the way NASA’s spacecraft study the universe. But because all machine…
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A ‘Monster’ Star-Forming Region Spied by NASA’s Spitzer

. A ‘Monster’ Star-Forming Region Spied by NASA’s Spitzer Just like clouds on Earth, clouds of gas and dust in space can sometimes resemble familiar objects, or even popular movie creatures. Loading Image Comparison… NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope imaged this cloud of gas and dust. The colors represent different wavelengths of infrared light and can…
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