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Amazon’s Kuiper Approved to Compete with Starlink

The FCC in the US has greenlit Amazon’s ambitious plans to compete with Starlink for global satellite internet dominance. The Jeff Bezos led company has a leg up on Elon Musk’s project though, given Amazon Web Services serve much of the internet backbone already, and there are ground based stations worldwide.

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A Star Remnant Confounds Astronomers

Astronomers long thought the earliest stars had all died out, and the universe was on it’s third generation of pinpoints of light in the night sky. However, the Phoenix cluster has thrown those theories out the window… as it’s jam packed with “first generation” stars.

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Splashdown! Crew Dragon Returns

Astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley are back on Earth following the successful test flight of the Crew Dragon capsule. It means NASA is back in the game of launching astronauts from American soil, for the first time since the shuttle retired almost a decade ago.

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Checking in on Axanar

It’s the Star Trek Fan Film that’s been promised for five years. After putting our coverage aside for eighteen months, it’s time to check in with Axamonitor’s Carlos Pedraza to see if any progress has been made.

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Volcanic Venus

Once thought dormant, our other nearest planet – the one that’s not Mars – has astronomers speculating that there is volcanic activity on the surface.

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