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Police ticket driver for sticking Starlink terminal on car’s hood

A California Highway Patrol officer stopped a Toyota Prius on Friday that had what looks like a Starlink dish fastened to its hood, the agency said in a Facebook post. The “visual obstruction,” sitting right smack in the middle of the car’s hood, landed the driver a ticket. “Sir I stopped you today for that visual obstruction on your hood. Does it not block your view while driving?” an…
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Elon Musk counts on 500,000 Starlink users within the next year

SpaceX’s satellite internet network, Starlink, should have roughly 500,000 users within the next 12 months, Elon Musk said at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) conference on Tuesday. SpaceX’s current goal, Musk said, is to beam broadband internet to most of the planet by August. The internet network, in the midst of an open beta phase, has launched more than 1,700 satellites to low-Earth orbit…
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Study Looks More Closely at Mars’ Underground Water Signals

. Study Looks More Closely at Mars’ Underground Water Signals A new paper finds more radar signals suggesting the presence of subsurface ‘lakes,’ but many are in areas too cold for water to remain liquid. In 2018, scientists working with data from ESA’s (the European Space Agency’s) Mars Express orbiter announced…
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NASA Balloon Detects California Earthquake – Next Stop, Venus?

. NASA Balloon Detects California Earthquake – Next Stop, Venus? The technique is being developed to detect venusquakes. A new study details how, in 2019, it made the first balloon-borne detection of a quake much closer to home. Between July 4 and July 6, 2019, a sequence of powerful earthquakes rumbled near Ridgecrest…
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