Cedar Rapids, Iowa (KCRG) – KCRG-TV9 received several phone calls and messages from viewers on Friday evening saying they were seeing a long line of lights in the sky west of our viewing area. The good news: they are not UFOs! After a brief investigation, we decided that the lights …
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A dead Soviet satellite and an abandoned Chinese rocket body flew into space this week, but avoided a catastrophic crash on Thursday night. LeoLabs, a company that uses radar to track satellites and debris in space, Said Tuesday that he is observing a “very dangerous” connection – an intersection in …
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At first glance the seemingly desolate expanse of the Sahel and Sahara deserts looks a bit greener, but the detailed satellite image attached to the computer deep learning reveals a different picture. In fact, the 1.8 billion trees in some parts of the West African Sahara and the Sahel Desert, …
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For the second time this year, experts can only glimpse and wait as two large .bases come close to a potentially colliding course in low-Earth orbit. An old, discarded Chinese rocket stage and a failed Russian military satellite are scheduled to pass within 12 meters (40 feet) of each other …
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London: U.S. Elon Musk’s SpaceX won a 14 149 million contract to build missile tracking satellites for the Pentagon, the Space Development Agency (SDA) said Monday (Oct. October) in the company’s first government contract to build satellites. SpaceX, known for its reusable rockets and astronaut capsules, is increasing satellite production …
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