On July 9, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) approved Reflect Orbital’s application to launch and operate Earendil-1, a demonstration satellite carrying a 59×59 foot (18×18 meter) mirror ...

A “space mirror” test satellite meant to beam sunlight and turn night into day on targeted swaths of Earth just received approval to proceed—and astronomers are aghast. The satellite, called ...

Editor's note: This is the second of three feature articles Ars is publishing to explore the financial, technical, and competitive dimensions of orbital data centers. Although the idea of putting data ...

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) approved a startup business’s request to build and launch a mirror satellite that would reflect sunlight back toward the dark parts of Earth. Reflect ...

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On July 9, the US Federal Communications Commission authorized Reflect Orbital to build, launch, and operate a mirror satellite in low Earth orbit. The experimental satellite, named Eärendil-1, would ...

The FCC issued approval for startup Reflect Orbital to launch a demonstration satellite that will test a solar reflector in orbit that’s designed to reflect sunlight back to Earth. The company is ...

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NEW YORK, June 9 (Reuters) - SpaceX executives say the company is aiming to launch initial demonstrations of space-based artificial intelligence computing infrastructure by late 2027, ahead of the "as ...

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