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Aegis Aerospace and United Semiconductors plan in orbit semiconductor materials plant
8+ mon, 6+ day ago (273+ words) Space Daily Aegis Aerospace and United Semiconductors plan in orbit semiconductor materials plant The Aegis Advanced Materials Manufacturing Platform, or AMMP, is being developed to use the microgravity environment of low Earth orbit to demonstrate how semiconductor and other advanced…...
Southern Launch to host INNOSPACE missions from South Australian spaceports
8+ mon, 3+ week ago (314+ words) in 2023, demonstrating its 150 kN thrust hybrid rocket engine on a suborbital flight from Brazil's...international customers. Related Links Southern Launch Rocket Science News at Space-Travel.Com...
Southern Launch to Host Lux Aeterna Re-Entries South Australia
8+ mon, 3+ week ago (204+ words) Under the agreement, two Lux Aeterna Delphi satellites will return to the Koonibba Test Range with Southern Launch. The first mission is targeted to return in 2027. "Lux Aeterna's mission is to make repeatable space operations as routine as reusable launch…...
ESO signs MOSAIC deal for Extremely Large Telescope spectrograph
9+ mon, 5+ day ago (398+ words) Potsdam, Germany (SPX) Dec 08, 2025 The European Southern Observatory ESO has signed an agreement with a large international consortium for the design and construction of the Multi-Object Spectrograph MOSAIC, an instrument for the Extremely Large Telescope ELT. On what will be…...
One country holds an estimated twenty-four trillion dollars in mineral wealth beneath its soil — cobalt and copper, the very metals that power the phones and electric cars of the modern world — and it remains among the five poorest nations on Earth
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (510+ words) A nation blessed with trillions in minerals essential to the modern world, yet condemned to poverty—a paradox that reveals how resource wealth can become a curse rather than a path to prosperity. By Daniel Moran · Editorial process Published July…...
Electric vehicles could catch on in Africa sooner than expected
7+ mon, 4+ week ago (191+ words) What helps here is that the cost of solar power and batteries has fallen sharply in recent years. At the same time, more and more affordable electric vehicles are hitting the market, especially from China. Motorbikes and eScooters are particularly…...
A tonne of old phones holds more gold than a tonne of gold ore. Each handset carries traces of gold, silver and copper, concentrated enough that recycling them, so-called urban mining, pulls more gold per tonne than an actual mine.
1+ mon, 2+ day ago (29+ words) The most valuable gold deposit within a hundred kilometres of you is probably not underground, it is sitting in a drawer inside a phone you have not turned on...
Off the coast of South Africa, orcas have learned to kill great white sharks with surgical precision — seizing a pectoral fin, eviscerating the shark in under two minutes, and taking one organ above all: the enormous, oil-rich liver, leaving most of the carcass behind
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (421+ words) A deadly partnership off South Africa's coast is reshaping the ocean's apex hierarchy, with two orcas systematically hunting great whites for a single prize. By Daniel Moran · Editorial process Published July 30, 2026 The smell arrives before the evidence does. Crews working…...
Flint tools, scorched soil and two pieces of spark-producing pyrite suggest humans were deliberately making fire in Britain 400,000 years ago — far earlier than firm evidence had previously shown
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (856+ words) At a former clay pit in Suffolk, archaeologists found a small patch of ancient ground that had been heated repeatedly above 700°C. Heat-fractured flint...
A Single Chokepoint Failure Reveals the Fragile Architecture of Africa's Energy Supply Chain
5+ mon, 5+ day ago (449+ words) The Strait of Hormuz, the 21-mile-wide passage connecting the Persian Gulf to the open ocean, is now effectively closed. Oil tankers that would normally transit the strait carrying crude from Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Kuwait, and the UAE are sitting idle,…...