Jeff Bezos reaches space—a small step toward big spaceflight dreams nationalgeographic.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from nationalgeographic.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
A record number of satellites were launched into orbit in 2020, according to the
Satellite Industry Association’s (SIA) State of the Satellite Industry Report. By the end of 2020, there were 3,371 satellites orbiting Earth, an increase of 37% from 2019. The commercial satellite industry dominates the $371 billion global space economy, making up $271 billion, or nearly 73% of its revenue.
“Increased demand for satellite broadband, remote sensing imagery and other services balanced declines in demand for services affected by the pandemic. Thanks to leaps in domestic innovation, costs to design, build and deploy satellites decreased while U.S. market share in manufacturing and launch services increased,” commented Tom Stoup, president of SIA. “Nearly 1,200 satellites were launched during 2020 and that trend continues as the industry has virtually matched that total in the first half of 2021.”
Reckless : Rocket gamble raises alarm about China s safety record in space nzherald.co.nz - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from nzherald.co.nz Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Safety comes second in China s race for space
China has been rapidly expanding its space ambitions, but without international collaboration experts warn that lives are being put at risk
16 May 2021 • 4:00pm
China s Long March-5B Y2 rocket recently made an uncontrolled re-entry, and many feared it was going to crash into a populated area
Credit: China Daily via REUTERS
The remnants of China’s biggest rocket came crashing into the Indian Ocean just west of the Maldives archipelago a week ago on Sunday May 9.
It was, according to Harvard astrophysicist Jonathan McDowell, a “reckless” end to one of the largest uncontrolled re-entries of a spacecraft in history.
SpaceX Launches Crewed Rocket in Latest NASA Mission msn.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from msn.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.