The Eclipse’s Path in 2024 Will Cross Parts of Texas
Texas Hill Country, the only part of the United States in the path of both last week’s “ring of fire” and April’s total eclipse, offered a preview of the spectacle to come.
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Dish Is First Company to Be Fined By F.C.C. Over Space Junk Rule
Dish, the television provider, failed to move its dead satellite into a higher orbit, where it would pose little threat to active satellites, the agency announced. The company agreed to pay a $150,000 fine.
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SpaceX Needs to Make 63 Fixes Before Next Starship Launch, FAA Orders
The agency closed an investigation into what went wrong during an April flight of the massive spacecraft that NASA will rely on to land astronauts on the moon.
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Lewis Branscomb, Champion of Science Across Fields, Dies at 96
He led scientific advances at I.B.M. and within the federal government during a career that spanned the space race and the dawn of the internet.