Tag: space
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Experts fear that massive solar storms will shut down the internet around the world.
Solar storms, also known as coronal mass ejections, are known to disrupt electrical grids and create blackouts, but experts believe they might also harm internet infrastructure, resulting in a global internet outage. This was presented this week at the SIGCOMM 2021 data communication conference by Sangeetha Abdu Jyothi of the University of California, Irvine. Even…
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SpaceX prepares to send first all-civilian crew into orbit
The crew vehicle, called Resilience, was scheduled to fly from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on one of Musk’s reusable Falcon 9 rockets on Wednesday at 8 p.m. EDT, with a five-hour launch window opening at 8 p.m. EDT. Another rich entrepreneur is slated to fly into space this week, strapped into the capsule of a…
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