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Forget Amazon or AST SpaceMobile: Starlink’s newest competitive threat may be the Qianfan “Thousand Sails” satellite constellation from China’s Shanghai Yuanxin Satellite Technology, which just signed an agreement with the Brazilian government. The company says it signed a memorandum of cooperation with Brazil’s state-owned telecommunication firm Telecomunicacoes Brasileiras to supply satellite internet in remote and […]
China’s electronic warfare ability would present “a significant challenge” to the US in the event of a conflict across the Taiwan Strait, according to a report to the US Congress. The report published by the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission (USCC) on Tuesday said the People’s Liberation Army had developed “substantial” electronic warfare capabilities […]
ပေကျင်း၊ နိုဝင်ဘာ ၁၄ ရက် (ဆင်ဟွာ)သမုဒ္ဒရာ ဆားအငန်ဓာတ် ထောက်လှမ်းရေး ဂြိုဟ်တုကို Long March-4B Y53 သယ်ဆောင်ရေးဒုံးပျံဖြင့် နိုဝင်ဘာ ၁၄ ရက် နံနက် ၆ နာရီ ၄၂ မိနစ်က ထိုက်ယွမ်ဂြိုဟ်တုလွှတ်တင်ရေး စင်တာမှ လွှတ်တင်ခဲ့ကြောင်း တရုတ်နိုင်ငံ အမျိုးသားအာကာသစီမံခန့်ခွဲမှုဦးစီးဌာန (CNSA) မှ သိရသည်။ သယ်ဆောင်ရေးဒုံးပျံ၏ ပျံသန်းမှုမှာ ပုံမှန်ဖြစ်ပြီး ဂြိုဟ်တုအား သတ်မှတ် ဂြိုဟ်ပတ်လမ်းကြောင်းသို့ အောင်မြင်စွာ ပို့ဆောင်နိုင်ခဲ့ရာ မစ်ရှင် အပြည့်အဝ အောင်မြင်ခဲ့ကြောင်း သိရသည်။ သမုဒ္ဒရာ ဆားအငန်ဓာတ် ထောက်လှမ်းရေး ဂြိုဟ်တုသည် တရုတ်နိုင်ငံ အရပ်ဘက်သုံး အာကာသ အခြေခံအဆောက်အဦများအနက် သိပ္ပံသုတေသနရေးရာဂြိုဟ်တု ဖြစ်ပြီး Haiyang 4-01 ဟု ခေါ်ပေသည်။ ဂြိုဟ်ပတ်လမ်းကြောင်းသို့ […]
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL), the government-run telecom service provider, launched a direct-to-device satellite connectivity service on Wednesday. The Indian Department of Telecommunications (DoT) announced the launch, calling it the “India’s first Satellite-to-Device service”. The Indian telecom developed this technology along with Viasat, a California-based communications technology company. It is aimed at offering seamless connectivity […]
Chinese commercial space firm CAS Space announced that it successfully launched 15 satellites into Earth orbit, including one for the Sultanate of Oman. CAS Space’s Kinetica-1 (also known as Lijian-1) solid rocket lifted off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the Gobi Desert on Sunday 11:03 pm Eastern time on Sunday, Nov. 10 (0403 […]
The world’s first wooden satellite was launched into space in an early test of using timber in lunar and Mars exploration, with scientists studying whether the material might help reduce the creation of space junk. What do you think? “But what if it rains?” Miles Hart, Unemployed “I fear the day beavers enter space.” Charlotte […]
SpaceX is set to tie its rocket-reuse record today (Nov. 11). A Falcon 9 rocket is scheduled to launch the KoreaSat-6A telecom satellite from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida today, during a four-hour window that opens at 12:07 p.m. EST (1607 GMT). It will be the 23rd mission for this rocket’s first stage, […]
Satellite images and documents indicate China working on nuclear propulsion for new aircraft carrier
China has built a land-based prototype nuclear reactor for a large surface warship, in the clearest sign yet Beijing is advancing toward producing its first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, according to a new analysis of satellite imagery and Chinese government documents provided to The Associated Press. China’s navy is already the world’s largest numerically, and it […]
Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance pressed India’s telecom watchdog on Friday to reconsider its plan not to auction satellite spectrum but to simply allocate it, in a fresh clash with Elon Musk’s Starlink. India’s telecoms Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia last month said the government would allocate spectrum administratively in line with global trends but a final notification on […]
Traditional geosynchronous (GSO) satellites, like Viasat and Hughesnet had very restrictive data caps compared to terrestrial internet for most of their history; however, Starlink set out to challenge these assumptions. At the time of its launch, Starlink offered truly unlimited data, though it had to roll this back as its network struggled to manage the […]