The Virtual Tribune
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Cold War rockets still launch from Cape Canaveral decades later
CAPE CANAVERAL, July 15 — The ghost of a satellite still echoes through the launchpads here. The Cold…
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Space Race ignited Cold War rivalry with Sputnik and NASA’s rise
WASHINGTON, July 15 — The Cold War’s most visible contest for technological prestige, the Space Race, was fundamentally…
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Panama Canal Locks: Engineering a 110-Year-Old Water Elevator
PANAMA CITY, July 15 — The Panama Canal is one of those feats of engineering that seems almost…
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Space Surveillance Network Tracks Debris Larger Than 10cm in Low Earth Orbit
LONDON, July 14 — The U.S. Space Surveillance Network is the quiet workhorse behind every satellite collision warning…
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The Economic Impact of the Transcontinental Railroad: $100 Million
OMAHA, July 14 — The iron rails that bind this continent together have a history written in steel,…
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Transcontinental Railroad Unites Coast-to-Coast America in Record Time
WASHINGTON, July 14 — The first transcontinental railroad in the United States was built between 1863 and 1869.…
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U.S. Space Force Tracks Growing Threat of Orbital Debris
VANDENBERG SPACE FORCE BASE, Calif., July 14 — The figure that matters: 47,000. That is the number of…
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NASA, ESA, U.S. Space Command, FCC Lead Space Debris Fight
VANDENBERG SPACE FORCE BASE, Calif., July 14 — The hum of computers inside the 18th Space Control Squadron…
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ESA Reports Over 1,000 Tracked Objects Now In Geostationary Orbit
MOSCOW, July 14 — The accumulation of space debris in geostationary orbit has become a matter of increasing…
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Geosynchronous Orbit Faces New Risks and Mitigation Strategies
PARIS, July 14 — Against this backdrop of a rapidly filling orbital environment, the question of what happens…
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Spanish Biochemist’s Aging Research Sparks Global Biomedical Interest
OVIEDO, July 14 — Against this backdrop of accelerating longevity research, a Spanish biochemist whose work has fundamentally…
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Shallow 5.3 quake jolts Aleutian community, no tsunami issued
FALSE PASS, Alaska, July 14 — A magnitude 5.3 earthquake struck 101 kilometers southeast of False Pass, Alaska,…
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U.S., EU, and Academics Lead Space Debris Monitoring
COLORADO SPRINGS, July 14 — The business of keeping track of what is orbiting overhead has become a…
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Mirror Satellite Reflects Sunlight from Low Earth Orbit
MOSCOW, July 14 — A private American company is preparing to launch a satellite that will deploy a…
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Hidden space junk swarm threatens geosynchronous satellites
TUCSON, July 14 — A newly discovered swarm of space debris in geosynchronous orbit poses a collision risk…
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Kessler Syndrome: How Collisions Could Make Orbit Unusable
ROME, July 14 — The shift is happening faster than anyone predicted. A cascade of collisions in orbit,…
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George Mitchell’s $250M bet revolutionized U.S. energy
HOUSTON, July 14 — The figure that matters: $250 million. That is what George P. Mitchell poured into…
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The Economics of Oil: From Price Shocks to the Petrocurrency System
LONDON, July 14 — The mechanism that has underpinned global oil trade for half a century is the…
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Global Satellite Revenue Hits $281B Amid Rising Orbital Debris Threat
WASHINGTON, July 14 — The global satellite industry generated $281 billion in revenue in 2022, according to the…
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Mountain Pass Mine: America’s Sole Rare Earth Mine Revives
MOUNTAIN PASS, Calif., July 14 — 43,000 metric tons. That is the figure that matters for the Mountain…
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Space debris accumulates in crowded geosynchronous orbit
BEIJING, July 14 — A 2023 study published in Acta Astronautica has identified a hidden swarm of over…
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US, Allies Intensify Global Race to Break China’s Rare Earth Grip
BEIJING, July 14 — Global rare earth oxide production reached an estimated 350,000 metric tons in 2023, with…
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Gen. David Thompson shapes U.S. orbital security policy
WASHINGTON, July 14 — The man who helped architect the United States Space Force from the ground up…
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Geosynchronous Orbit: Prime Real Estate 35,786 km Above Earth
GENEVA, July 14 — The finite geography of space is governed by a single number: 35,786 kilometers. That…
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