Samantha Harvey’s ‘Orbital’ Wins the Booker Prize
Most bets were on Percival Everett’s “James,” but the judges chose Harvey’s “beautiful, miraculous” novel, which is set ...
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Orbital wins the Booker prize: “I see it as a kind of space pastoral"
Samantha Harvey has won the UK's top fiction prize for a novel that takes place over 24 hours on the International Space ...
British writer Samantha Harvey’s space-station novel ‘Orbital’ wins 2024 Booker Prize
Samantha Harvey won the prestigious award for a wonder-filled novel, set aboard the International Space Station, that ponders ...
This year’s Booker winner is a smart novel – but the wrong choice
It shouldn’t have been a surprise. This year’s Booker Prize was awarded to Samantha Harvey’s Orbital, a chronicle of one day ...
Right now, the sun is far more active than predicted—and small satellites are paying the price
Last week, three tiny Australian satellites from Curtin University's Binar Space Program burned up in Earth's atmosphere.
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Hello Mars! Musk wants to place multiple SpaceX satellites around the red planet
It recently launched its 7,000th Starlink satellite to orbit and is aiming to place a whopping 42,000 satellites in low Earth ...
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Scientists propose a shocking new theory for the origin of the moon - and claim the popular 'collision theory' is WRONG
Since the 1980s, experts have assumed that our lunar satellite was formed in the aftermath of an explosive impact with the ...
Marslink? SpaceX Wants to Develop a Version of Starlink Around the Red Planet
Earlier in September, SpaceX launched its 7,000th Starlink satellite to orbit as part of its growing internet constellation. Starlink is currently operational in 102 countries, with SpaceX planning ...
The rings inside trees are beginning to tell a different story
If you cut down a tree, you can read an environmental record. Now climate change is complicating the narrative.