These 2 companies are teaming up to offer insurance for space debris strikes on satellites

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Over 46,000 space debris fragments more than 4 inches wide now clutter Earth’s orbit.  (Image credit: ESA) A pair of companies are teaming up to provide customers with pioneering insurance for spacecraft specifically to cover space debris collision events. Space insurance underwriters typically offer premiums that are mission-wide and include possible satellite replacement and canContinue Reading

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is rapidly moving away from us. Can we ‘intercept’ it before it leaves us forever?

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Astronomers want to send a spacecraft to “intercept” 3I/ATLAS or the next interstellar object. Doing so would help researchers learn more about distant star systems in the Milky Way. (Image credit: Nicholas Forder/Future) We’ve watched it speed through the solar system using the most powerful telescopes in human history . We’ve studied its light withContinue Reading

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Mario Lubetkin on Washington’s revived sphere-of-influence doctrine, Venezuela, and China’s growing footprint., Mario Lubetkin on Washington’s revived sphere-of-influence doctrine, Venezuela, and China’s growing footprint. The United States is reviving a policy first set out in the 1800s that treats Latin America as its strategic sphere of influence. As Washington expandsContinue Reading