News
Fancy a getaway in space? It’s a steal at $35K a night.
NASA will allow private citizens to stay at the International Space Station (ISS) for a month-long getaway at a cost of about $35,000 per night. Read more…
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Features
Friday Futures: inflatable astronauts, black hole, bio-hacking
This week: inflatable astronauts; a big black hole; bio-hacking; are humans safe in space; artificial muscles. Read more…
Features
Friday Futures: eggs vs cancer, storms on Jupiter, kill the URL
Friday Futures: Chickens are laying eggs with cancer drugs in them; Google wants to kill the URL; and astronomers find cool distant object with cheap telescope. Read more…
Off the Wire
Ambitious Thai company, mu Space, enters the space race
mu Space, Thailand’s newest space and satellite company plans to enter into the projects of the US space agency NASA. Read more…
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New Zealand company launches 13 tiny probes into space
SYDNEY (Reuters) – Rocket Lab, a rocket propulsion company backed by investors in Silicon Valley, has launched a batch of 13 tiny probes from New Zealand to study space. The Electron rocket lifted off on Read more…
Features
Amazon wants to harvest big data from outer space
SANTIAGO (Reuters) – Amazon is in talks with Chile to house and mine massive amounts of data generated by the country’s giant telescopes, which could prove fertile ground for the company to develop new artificial Read more…
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Vodafone will build an LTE network on the moon because why not?
BARCELONA (Reuters) – The moon will get its first mobile phone network next year, enabling high-definition streaming from the lunar landscape back to earth, part of a project to back the first privately funded moon Read more…
Features
Friday Futures: AI comprehension, space signals, urban farming
Welcome to Friday Futures, our weekly guide to the latest visions of The Future from around the web. This week: AI beats humans at reading comprehension (sort of); the latest on weird signals from space; antibiotics Read more…