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Apple and Amazon are teaming up to challenge Starlink’s smartphone ambitions

Amazon has made a deal to buy Globalstar’s low-Earth orbit satellite network for $11.57 billion, snapping up its spectrum licenses, operations, and assets to combine with its upcoming Leo internet satellite constellation. Apple owned 20 percent of Globalstar, and as a part of the deal, Amazon will continue to support satellite services like Emergency SOS […]

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Icon Launches Icon Prime, a Dedicated Government Division Focused on Robotic Construction for Defense and Space

Insider Brief Icon has launched Icon Prime, a new defense and space-focused business unit aimed at deploying its robotic construction systems for U.S. military and NASA applications. According to the company, the unit will focus on modernizing military infrastructure and developing construction technologies for use in space, including lunar surface building, as defense and space […]

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NASA is building the first nuclear reactor-powered interplanetary spacecraft. How will it work?

MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world of technology to help you understand what’s coming next. You can read more from the series here. Just before Artemis II began its historic slingshot around the moon, Jared Isaacman, the recently confirmed NASA administrator, made a flurry of announcements from the agency’s headquarters…

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How to watch the Artemis II astronauts return to Earth

The Orion capsule, carrying Artemis II commander Reid Wiseman, pilot Victor Glover, mission specialist Christina Koch, and Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen, is expected to land back to Earth after a nine-day mission that set a record for the farthest distance humans have ever traveled from our planet. After making a high-speed re-entry through the atmosphere, […]

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