FCC to fight space debris by requiring satellite disposal in 5 years or less

Enlarge / Artist’s impression of low Earth-orbit satellites like those launched by SpaceX and OneWeb. (credit: NOIRLab / NSF / AURA / P. Marenfeld) The Federal Communications Commission has a plan to minimize space junk by requiring low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites to be disposed no more than five years after being taken out of […]

Bomb disposal op underway in Berlin after ‘suspicious’ car found at kindergarten

Published time: 29 May, 2017 09:38 Edited time: 29 May, 2017 09:46 Berlin police have scrambled a bomb disposal team after a suspicious car was found near a local kindergarten. Police confirmed the car’s registration numbers are registered as stolen, with suspected wires seen inside. DETAILS TO FOLLOW Let’s block ads! (Why?) RT – Daily […]

Greece evacuates over 70,000 residents for WW2 bomb disposal in Thessaloniki

Greek authorities have begun evacuating tens of thousands of people from the country’s second largest city, Thessaloniki, as a bomb disposal unit is preparing to defuse an unexploded World War II air bomb. [embedded content] The authorities have ordered the full evacuation of all residents living within an almost two-kilometer radius of the site where […]