Astro-challenge: Following Venus from dusk until dawn
Up for a challenge? If skies are clear, you may be able to complete a rare feat of visual athletics this coming weekend, and ...
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‘Space Advertising’ Could Outshine the Stars—Unless It’s Banned First
Astronomers are racing to protect the dark skies as private companies seek to place large advertisements in Earth orbit ...
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BlackSky Delivers First AI-Enabled Analytics Derived from Very High-Resolution Gen-3 Imagery Three Weeks Following Launch
BlackSky Technology Inc. (NYSE: BKSY) has delivered its first AI-enabled analytics derived from new, very high-resolution ...
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All The Planets Are Parading In The Night Sky – Catch Them Now Or Wait Until 2034
Planets orbit roughly on the same plane ... It is not unusual to see a few of them aligned before dawn or after sunset, but getting all of them on one apparent side of the Sun doesn’t happen ...
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BlackSky Delivers First AI-Enabled Analytics Derived from Very High-Resolution Gen-3 Imagery Three Weeks Following Launch
With BlackSky's first Gen-3 satellite now on orbit, the company expects to expand ... enhancing the value of our current Gen-2 dawn-to-dusk dynamic monitoring services. Adding additional Gen ...
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SPHEREx launches to conduct a cosmic census
Once in space, SPHEREx will occupy a dawn-dusk Sun-synchronous orbit. “That means our orbit plane … is always facing the Sun,” said SPHEREx deputy project manager Beth Fabinsky in the news ...
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BlackSky Achieves Commercial Earth Observation Industry First by Delivering Gen-3 Very High-Resolution Imagery Five Days from Launch
“Adding very high-resolution imagery to our high-frequency, low-latency monitoring constellation gives customers the ability to unlock the transformative power of dawn-to-dusk time-diversity and ...
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March 2025: What’s in the sky this month? A total lunar eclipse, Venus remains bright, and Mars and Jupiter continue to dominate
The alignment is a line-of-sight effect, as Venus stands closer to Earth (0.29 astronomical unit [AU]; 1 AU is the average Earth-Sun distance), while Mercury is on the far side of its orbit (at 0. ...