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BeiDou Technology Helps Overcome the “Information Islands” Isolating Small Hydropower Plants in Southwestern China
Read more →: BeiDou Technology Helps Overcome the “Information Islands” Isolating Small Hydropower Plants in Southwestern ChinaA research team from China Southern Power Grid’s Guizhou Electric Power Research Institute has integrated BeiDou high-precision positioning…
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First Geological Mapping Results from China-Saudi Geoscience Cooperation Released
Read more →: First Geological Mapping Results from China-Saudi Geoscience Cooperation ReleasedSaudi Arabia’s Geological Survey released the first batch of 24 detailed 1:100,000-scale geological maps of the Saudi Arabian…
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China Unveils First AI Systems for Geological Mapping and Mineral Prospecting
Read more →: China Unveils First AI Systems for Geological Mapping and Mineral ProspectingChina’s Ministry of Natural Resources on Sept. 11 unveiled the AI-GeoMapping and AI-OreSeeking systems at the 2026 China…
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SpaceX Launches Final O3b mPOWER Satellites on 700th Falcon Mission (Video)
Read more →: SpaceX Launches Final O3b mPOWER Satellites on 700th Falcon Mission (Video)SpaceX launched three Boeing-built O3b mPOWER communications satellites for SES on September 13, completing the Luxembourg-based operator’s 13-satellite…
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Trump Orders Study of NASA-Led U.S. Space Academy as Civilian-Military Questions Emerge
Read more →: Trump Orders Study of NASA-Led U.S. Space Academy as Civilian-Military Questions EmergePresident Donald Trump signed an executive order at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston on August 28, 2026,…
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Rocket Lab Challenges NASA’s $700 Million Mars Orbiter Award to Blue Origin
Read more →: Rocket Lab Challenges NASA’s $700 Million Mars Orbiter Award to Blue OriginRocket Lab filed a formal protest with the U.S. Government Accountability Office on September 11, challenging NASA’s decision…
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Rocket Lab Deploys Confidential Earth Observation Satellite on 95th Launch
Read more →: Rocket Lab Deploys Confidential Earth Observation Satellite on 95th LaunchRocket Lab launched a single Earth observation satellite for an undisclosed commercial customer on September 11, deploying the…
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ESA Records Final Cluster Satellite Reentries in South Pacific Airborne Campaign
Read more →: ESA Records Final Cluster Satellite Reentries in South Pacific Airborne CampaignThe European Space Agency’s final two Cluster satellites, Samba and Tango, reentered over a remote part of the…
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SpaceX’s Nasdaq-100 Weighting Set to More Than Double in September Rebalance
Read more →: SpaceX’s Nasdaq-100 Weighting Set to More Than Double in September RebalanceSpaceX is expected to more than double its weighting in the Nasdaq-100 Index when the benchmark completes its…
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Air-Breathing Plasma Thruster Targets Sustained Satellite Operations in Very Low Earth Orbit
Read more →: Air-Breathing Plasma Thruster Targets Sustained Satellite Operations in Very Low Earth OrbitAn atmosphere-breathing plasma propulsion system developed at the University of Stuttgart could allow satellites to operate for extended…
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Impulse Space Miras Approach Within 200 Meters in Orbital Rendezvous Demonstration
Read more →: Impulse Space Miras Approach Within 200 Meters in Orbital Rendezvous DemonstrationTwo Impulse Space Mira orbital transfer vehicles approached within approximately 200 meters of each other in low Earth…
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NOAA Selects 14 Commercial Satellite Data Providers for Expanded Weather Contract
Read more →: NOAA Selects 14 Commercial Satellite Data Providers for Expanded Weather ContractNOAA has selected 14 commercial satellite companies to compete for orders across seven environmental-observation categories under a new…