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Cable TV companies required to give direct pricing totals, FCC rules

Barbara Terrio

Cable and satellite-TV providers will need to show the total costs for video subscriptions as part of a Federal Communications ...

Doing the impossible: harvesting solar power from space

Daisy Hips

It’s an idea straight out of science fiction: A space station orbits around Earth, harvesting energy from the sun and ...

Agreement reached after 6-week blackout

Barbara Terrio

DirecTV and Tegna have ended their standoff. The TV provider and the media company announced a new multi-year distribution agreement ...

China’s Spaceplane Just Released Six Mysterious Objects in Orbit

Daisy Hips

China’s Shenlong robotic spaceplane, on its third mission, has added a new layer of intrigue to its space activities by ...

Airbus Launches Device to Prevent Dead Satellites from Tumbling

Daisy Hips

An illustration of space debris littering Earth orbit.Illustration: ESA Earth’s orbit can be a chaotic place, with defunct spacecraft darting ...

Qualcomm’s satellite texting plan is dead because phone makers aren’t interested

Brendan Martin

Back in January, Qualcomm announced , a project that aimed to let Android users send texts via satellite when they ...

Vampiric Viruses ‘Bite’ Other Viruses for Survival

Debi Johnson

Viruses are somehow even weirder than we thought. In a recent study published last month, scientists say they’ve discovered two ...

Starlink’s satellite cell service is set to launch in 2024, but only for SMS

Brendan Martin

The launch of Starlink’s much-anticipated satellite cellular service, Direct-to-Cell, will reportedly begin rolling out for SMS in 2024, according to ...