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#TGIQF: Das Quiz rund um Satelliten-Navigation
Mit 95 Jahren starb in dieser Woche Gladys West, Pionierin der GPS-Navigation. Wir ehren sie mit einem kleinen Nerdquiz rund um Satelliten-Navigation.

OpenAI scrambled for compute power after the Stargate project stalled; sources: OpenAI still plans to build its own data centers, but not in the near future (Anissa Gardizy/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/inside-op…

Inside OpenAI’s Scramble to Get Computing Power After Stargate Stalled
When President Donald Trump announced the $500 billion Stargate AI data center project in January 2025, the three companies charged with developing it promised to move with lightning speed, spending $100 billion almost immediately to start building 10 gigawatts of computing capacity. More than a ...

A proposed constellation of satellites has astronomers very worried.
Unlike satellites that reflect sunlight and produce light pollution as an unfortunate byproduct,
the ones by US startup
"Reflect Orbital" would produce light pollution by design.
The company promises to produce “sunlight on demand” with mirrors that beam sunlight down to Earth so solar farms can operate after sunset.
It plans to start with an 18-metre test satellite named Earendil-1 wh…

A US startup plans to deliver ‘sunlight on demand’ after dark. Can it work – and would we want it to?
Satellites beaming sunlight down to Earth sound like science fiction – and they have astronomers very worried.

US-Lawinenunglück: iPhone-Funktion „Notruf SOS via Satellit“ half bei Rettung
Apple bietet seit einigen Jahren die Möglichkeit, per Textnachricht außerhalb von Mobilfunkempfangsgebieten zu kommunizieren. In den USA rettete das Leben.

Good to hear @… on this morning's 7am podcast.
Why Elon’s million satellites could spell disaster
#7am #Australia

7am - Why Elon’s million satellites could spell disaster
Listen to 7am - Why Elon’s million satellites could spell disaster by Solstice Media on Podcast Addict. Elon Musk and his SpaceX team want to launch up to one million satellites as part of a proposal to power massive data centres in space. They pitch it as a clean, green alternative to regular data centres. But as Earth’s orbit becomes increasingly crowded, what will Elon’s mega constellation do to our night sky? And could a crash between satellites set off a catastrophic

En de Chinezen gaan daar ook nog eens overheen. Het zal moeilijk worden zonder GPS 😢
Amazon-oprichter Bezos bouwt nóg een satellietnetwerk als rivaal voor Starlink
https://www.volkskrant.nl/tech/amazon-oprichter-be…

Bisher noch weitgehend unbekannt: es gibt 2 wirklich irrsinnige Pläne, Millionen Satteliten in den Himmel zu schicken, die jede eine Bedrohung für uns sind, auf unterschiedliche Weise.
Man kann Einwendungen an die FCC Behörde formulieren, aber das ist leider sehr kompliziert.
Mehr Infos findet ihr bei @…

Satellite proposals threaten the night sky
In the United States, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the agency responsible for authorizing satellite launches and operations…

Auch Blue Origin baut Satelliten-Netz: Terawave
Das Raumfahrtunternehmen Blue Origin will ebenfalls eine große Satellitenkonstellation errichten. Die zweite Etage soll bis zu 6 Terabit/s schaffen.
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AST launches its largest-ever satellite from India, hosting the BlueBird Block-2, the first in a series of deployments to challenge SpaceX in satellite internet (Sana Pashankar/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Blue Origin unveils TeraWave, a satellite communications network for enterprise, data center, and government customers, and plans to begin deployment in Q4 2027 (Annie Palmer/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/21/bezos-blue-origin-satellite-internet-sp…

Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin launches satellite internet service to rival SpaceX, Amazon
Blue Origin is looking to send the first of TeraWave's 5,408 satellites into space in the fourth quarter of 2027.