satellite
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What if launching a satellite was as easy as calling a cab?
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
After the Russian invasion, he reached out to US tech titan Elon Musk to secure Starlink satellite connectivity for Ukrainian troops.
From Barron's ● Jul. 16, 2026
Shares of a SpaceX competitor dropped on Thursday after the company said it needed to raise new funds and announced a delay with its satellite targets.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 16, 2026
Because these blooms are easily detected from orbit, satellite observations provide scientists with an important way to monitor marine ecosystems in areas where collecting water samples is difficult.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 15, 2026
In August 1955, Russian rocket scientists announced that they would soon be able to send a satellite into space.
From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau
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Skyroot came into being in 2018 when Chandana and Naga Bharath Daka - who were colleagues at Isro - quit their jobs and co-founded the space-tech start-up to build rocket components for satellites.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
They include scientific instruments such as a robotic arm for removing space debris, an Earth observation camera and satellites, including one from a German company.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
The Pentagon relies on SpaceX for launching rockets and managing satellites for communications and missile tracking.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
Amazon launched its first batch of low-Earth orbit satellites last year and says it now has more than 390 satellites deployed, far behind Starlink's fleet of more than 10,000.
From Barron's ● Jul. 15, 2026
It ran faster than any computer she’d ever had, could access satellites or Hephaestus-TV broadcasts from Mount Olympus, and ran custom-made programs that could do just about anything except tie shoelaces.
From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan
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