Cell phone service via satellite
Many companies are seeking to do this, including the announced SpaceX/T-Mobile partnership: Satellite companies are rushing to connect our phones and eliminate dead zones. Source: The space race for our…
This is a very big deal: SpaceX and T-Mobile team up to use Starlink satellites
Existing T-Mobile phones should have access to text messaging capabilities in remote areas, routed via Starlink satellites. The satellites to support this capability will launch in 2023. SpaceX CEO Elon…
Fabric from 1903 Wright Flyer sent to Mars
This is so cool! A piece of the Wright brothers’ first airplane is on Mars. NASA’s experimental Martian helicopter holds a small swatch of fabric from the 1903 Wright Flyer,…
Space: Chinese capsule returns to Earth carrying moon rocks
Awesome! BEIJING (AP) — A Chinese lunar capsule returned to Earth Thursday with the first fresh samples of rock and debris from the moon in more than 40 years. Source:…