Tag: Space Research

Space junk is a problem that has to be tackled at the world level. An assignment was undertaken by astroscale and various governmental organisations.

Starlink is a satellite internet constellation being constructed by SpaceX aiming to provide fast and low latency internet access to everyone.. The constellation will consist of thousands of mass-produced small satellites in low Earth orbit, which communicate with designated ground transceivers. Starlink currently provides internet speeds between 50-150 Mbps with latency of 20-40 milliseconds in most locations of its service. 

Last week Jeff Bezos announced that he and his brother Mark alongwith a winner of online auction will travel on first crewed flight of Blue Origin’s New Shephard scheduled on July 20. With “Tourism” industry flourishing high up there in space, few firms like Axiom Space are orchestrating “space hotels” and luxury living up there. According to Union Bank of Switzerland (UBS), by 2030 space tourism will be a $3 billion dollar market and space industry will be growing with $805 billion market. Whether space tourism with such a niche market of accommodating only the uber-rich can ever be profitable? Whether civilians will actually understand and overcome the life-threatening challenges of space travel? Get down to thehavok.com with Om Desai on this soothing space tour…

Ever since, the first artificial satellite, Sputnik 1 was launched in 1957, we have launched more than 10,000 satellites, with nearly 6,000 still in orbit out of which about only 3,000 are currently operational. The amount of space junk generated by them is so much that it's now becoming a huge concern to us.

Everyone dreams of a day when we finally make contact with an intelligent alien race from beyond galaxies. But this might not be real good news. Not because they could be hostile to us, but because a fundamental hypothesis about the universe itself, connected to the fermi paradox, would doom us to extinction in such a case

Thought this year may have been a bad one for some, it wasn't the same in the field of Astronomy & Astrophysics as we were able to witness many new findings and events throughout the year, starting with the dazzling first image taken of the Sun by the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope to witnessing the closest Great Conjunction in 397 years.