The Virtual Tribune
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Bezos Says Blue Origin Will Likely Go Public Someday After $10 Billion Raise
SEATTLE, July 16 — On the floor of Blue Origin’s Kent facility, a New Glenn rocket stands in…
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Megaconstellations Push Satellites to Process Data in Orbit, Frontgrade CTO Says
CAPE CANAVERAL, July 16 — The night sky is getting crowded. For the families in rural communities who…
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SpaceX and Amazon, Worth a Combined $4.5 Trillion, Look Set to Collide
LOS ANGELES, July 15 — Two of the world’s most valuable companies are racing to wire the planet…
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Russian Oil and Gas Still Fund the War Despite Sanctions, 2026 Data Shows
BRUSSELS, July 15 — The shift is unmistakable. Europe’s energy relationship with Russia, once a pillar of continental…
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How Starlink Built Its 2026 Lead in the Global Satellite Internet Race
WASHINGTON, July 15 — The race to wire the world from space is no longer a theoretical contest…
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SpaceX and Amazon are valued alike, but their revenues differ by $700 billion
CAPE CANAVERAL, July 15 — The race to control the skies above us is no longer just about…
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How the EU Cut Russian Gas From Over 150 to 36 Billion Cubic Metres
MOSCOW, July 15 — Russia’s position in the European energy sector has undergone a fundamental shift since the…
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Key Researchers and Evidence Behind the Cannabis Lung Cancer Warning
WASHINGTON, July 15 — The largest U.S. study on marijuana and lung cancer has been reported by Medical…
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Sir Francis Beaufort Created the Wind Force Scale for Weather
LONDON, July 11 — Against the backdrop of the North Atlantic, where wind and wave have dictated the…
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SpaceX IPO Filing Shows $1.94 Billion Quarterly Loss and Musk’s Tight Control
LOS ANGELES, July 15 — For a man who built his fortune on electric cars and rockets, Elon…
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Strait of Hormuz Disruption Sends Brent Above $100 and Cuts Gulf Oil Exports by 60 Percent
WASHINGTON, July 15 — A partial closure of the Strait of Hormuz could remove 5 to 10 million…
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Strait of Hormuz: History of World’s Key Oil Chokepoint
TEHRAN, July 15 — The waters of the Strait of Hormuz have a long memory, and for the…
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Gas projects at 11 data center campuses could emit more than Morocco, Wired finds
WASHINGTON, July 15 — A data center in the United States has been operating 59 natural gas turbines…
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Von Braun’s 1969 plan to send humans to Mars and why it was dropped
HUNTSVILLE, July 15 — Against this backdrop of renewed transatlantic debate over the legacy of Nazi-era scientists who…
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Transcontinental Railroad: How Iron Rails United a Coast-to-Coast Nation
WASHINGTON, July 14 — The first transcontinental railroad in the United States was built between 1863 and 1869.…
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Starlink made 148,696 collision-avoidance maneuvers in six months as orbital debris grows
VANDENBERG SPACE FORCE BASE, Calif., July 14 — The figure that matters: 47,000. That is the number of…
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Spanish Biochemist’s Tortoise Genome Study Opens New Aging Research Lines
OVIEDO, July 14 — Against this backdrop of accelerating longevity research, a Spanish biochemist whose work has fundamentally…
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FCC approves Reflect Orbital’s Earendil-1 sunlight mirror satellite over astronomers’ objections
MOSCOW, July 14 — A private American company is preparing to launch a satellite that will deploy a…
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Warwick team finds 25 uncatalogued debris tracks in geosynchronous orbit
TUCSON, July 14 — A newly discovered swarm of space debris in geosynchronous orbit poses a collision risk…
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George Mitchell, Oilman Who Proved Shale Gas Could Pay After 17 Years of Trying
HOUSTON, July 14 — The figure that matters: $250 million. That is what George P. Mitchell poured into…
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How the Petrodollar System Took Shape After the 1973 Oil Shock
LONDON, July 14 — The mechanism that has underpinned global oil trade for half a century is the…
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Lynas CEO Amanda Lacaze Says Her Rare Earths Bet Paid Off as Prices Rose
PERTH, July 14 — The story of Lynas Rare Earths begins deep in the red dirt of Western…
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Warwick team finds 25 faint debris objects in geosynchronous orbit
ISLAMABAD, July 14 — For millions of people around the world, the ability to make a phone call,…
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May 10, 1869: Golden Spike Unites Nation at Promontory Summit
PROMONTORY SUMMIT, Utah Territory, May 10 — The final spike was driven here today, completing the first transcontinental…
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