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Scientists announced a major discovery about Uranus using 34-year-old data from Voyager 2, and the Canadian telescope CHIME has detected 9 new FRB repeaters, helping us learn more about these mysterious signals. Hosted by: Hank Green SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It’s called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ———- Support SciShow by becoming

NGA’s Dave Gauthier: ‘We have some obligation to think about commercial protection’ NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — U.S. defense and intelligence agencies that increasingly rely on commercial satellites for imagery and other services are discussing how they might compensate companies if their spacecraft is damaged during an armed conflict, officials said Sept. 15. If private sector

PARIS — The satellite industry’s largest and most established operators are bracing for major disruption as consolidation and new entrants shake up the state of play. “The way the industry looks today with the core players may or may not look the same in the next couple of years,” Intelsat CEO David Wajsgras said during

PARIS – Satlantis, a Spanish Earth-observation technology company, signed a contract Sept. 14 to buy two multispectral satellites from OHB Sweden. Satlantis will supply the instrument, a sensor to gather optical and infrared imagery with a resolution of 80 centimeters per pixel, for OHB’s InnoSat platform. The satellites are expected to weigh less than 150