Space
Data centres in space? That’s less crazy than you think
Elon Musk and other tech leaders explore building data centres in space to overcome terrestrial constraints, with launch costs and satellite efficiency key factors.
- The Economist
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Weir science: From The Martian to Project Hail Mary, this geek gets it right. Mostly
Andy Weir’s novels, and the films they spawn, have been praised for their scientific accuracy – but not by everyone. Which is just how he likes it.
- Karl Quinn
‘I’ve waited 10 years for the truth’: The billionaire, the French president and the satellite that crashed to Earth
NewSat investor Ching Chiat Kwong has returned to Australia to mete out retribution over the company’s 2015 failure via a case brought by liquidators that could drag in Emmanuel Macron.
- Sarah Danckert
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Australian hypersonic plane completes first test flight at five times speed of sound
An Australian-made hypersonic aircraft reached five times the speed of sound in a test scientists say will forge the future of air travel.
- Michael Koziol
‘I don’t know if they’re real’: Trump tells agencies to release files on aliens, UFOs
The directive came after the US leader accused Barack Obama of disclosing “classified information” when the former president recently suggested extraterrestrials existed.
- Michelle L. Price
To the moon: Elon Musk announces major change to his plan to save civilisation
The world’s richest person announced that his SpaceX company had shifted focus away from populating Mars to building a “self-growing city” on the moon.
- Loren Grush
Elon Musk’s space junk blazes across Victorian skies
Scientists say falling space junk will become more common with the increase in satellite launches in recent years.
- Angus Delaney
Space junk enters the atmosphere over Victoria
Scientists believe it is one of Elon Musk's SpaceX satellites.
SpaceX seeks approval for million-plus satellites in space data-centre complex
Elon Musk says the lowest cost place to put AI will be space, and that it will be true “within two years, maybe three at the latest”.
- Sana Pashankar and Loren Grush
New planet that could support life discovered by Queensland scientists
It’s so far away, scientists are effectively viewing it as it was during the 19th century – around the time the telephone was being invented.
- William Davis