Russia refuses to launch UK's OneWeb satellites unless demands are met | Ukraine's proud space industry faces obliteration but country's former space chief has hope for future | Scientists gearing up for rocket body's March 4 moon crash
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Roscosmos will not launch three dozen OneWeb internet satellites as planned on Friday (March 4) unless the company meets new demands, the Russian space agency announced today (March 2). This morning, Roscosmos rolled a Soyuz rocket out to the launch pad at the Russia-operated Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan carrying 36 satellites for the London-based company OneWeb. Shortly after the rollout, Roscosmos Director-General Dmitry Rogozin made an online statement that the agency will not launch the satellites as planned if the company does not guarantee that the craft will not be used for military purposes.
Ukraine has a mighty space industry whose Zenit rocket is Elon Musk's favorite. But the country's potential might soon lie in ruins together with its dreams as Russia continues its bloody siege. However, the country's former space boss told Space.com that he still has hopes for the future and believes the underdog Ukraine could help fill Russia's shoes in international collaborations.
A wayward rocket stage is poised to bombard the moon on Friday (March 4), and the coming impact has earned some scientific attention. Reportedly, the Goldstone Solar System Radar near Barstow, California, is set to observe the object a few days before impact. And NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) will look for changes in the moon's exosphere — a very thin layer of gases — due to the crash and then later scan the lunar surface for the impact crater itself.
On March 2, 2004, the European Space Agency launched the Rosetta mission to study Comet 67P. See how it happened in our On This Day In Space video series.
In 2020, a team of astronomers with the European Southern Observatory (ESO) discovered the closest black hole to Earth in the HR 6819 system, just 1,000 light-years away, only to have other scientists dispute the findings. As it turns out, those critics seem to have been correct. In new research, an international team of scientists led by researcher Abigail Frost of KU Leuven in Belgium has disproved the existence of a black hole in HR 6819.
Two huge black holes are locked together by gravity as they inevitably spiral towards a collision, researchers have found in a new study. Researchers in a new study have spotted two supermassive black holes that whip around each other every two Earth years, on average, with respective masses each of hundreds of millions of times that of our sun. They found that the pair are also relatively close, being only about 2,000 Earth-sun distances apart (or about 50 times the distance between the sun and Pluto.)
Stonehenge may have been used as a solar calendar, with each of the stones representing a day and sections of the circle of stones possibly corresponding to weeks, an archaeologist now says.
A crescent-shaped crater in Northeast China holds the record as the largest impact crater on Earth that formed in the last 100,000 years. In July 2021, scientists confirmed that a geological structure in the Lesser Xing'an mountain range had formed as a result of a space rock striking Earth.
What happens when two of the largest objects in the universe collide? Simple, says a new study: They create one of the largest shock waves in the universe.
Amid concern from NASA, SpaceX says it has "significant resources" to exceed best practices with Starlink when it comes to sustainability and safety. In an update published to the company website Feb. 22, SpaceX outlined its sustainability and safety protocol for its Starlink internet satellites on Monday (Feb. 28), as the company seeks to add tens of thousands more of the probes to its fast-growing megaconstellation.
Russia's attacks on Ukraine continue to take lives and destroy infrastructure as the country invades. This infrastructure damage has disrupted internet access in Ukraine, leading a government official to publicly request Starlink satellite internet access for the country from SpaceX CEO Elon Musk. Musk obliged, activating Starlink service in Ukraine and sending additional hardware. But with continued attacks on infrastructure, how will Ukraine stay connected?
Patrick Stewart in 'Star Trek: Picard' on Paramount Plus (Trae Patton/CBS)
Star Trek: Picard season 2 will be beaming up for streaming on March 3 and Paramount Plus is probably going to be your best bet if you want to watch. The anticipated return of the popular series centered on the legendary Star Fleet captain is almost here and you can watch the trailer above. Season one saw Jean-Luc Picard's consciousness downloaded into a synthetic body, giving him a fresh lease on life. After this, adventure and drama follows meaning the series was well received by both fans and critics.
Since Disney Plus is the home of Marvel these days, some well known Marvel titles are making the jump over from Netflix. TV shows including Daredevil, The Defenders, Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D and more are moving from one streaming service to another. These shows will add to Disney's already huge Marvel collection and will be available to stream from March16.
