In the 1960s, NASA launched two spacecraft into elliptical medium Earth orbit, hoping they would demonstrate the satellite-based communications technology that had yet to transform the world. The ...

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A powerful blast of energy detected in March marks the brightest fast radio burst — a mysterious type of outburst from space — observed to date. FRBs, first observed in 2007, are millisecond-long ...