SpaceX is building a facility in Boca Chica, located at the southeastern tip of Texas, to develop, build, and launch fully reusable Starship-Super Heavy rockets. The company is focused on suborbital up-and-down flights of prototypes for now, but it eventually plans to launch Starships to orbit and land them back […]
Over half of all voters under the age of 30 voted in the 2020 elections, a record figure, according to data from the Centre for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement at Tufts University. The surge in turnout greatly benefited President-elect Joe Biden, who won this demographic by […]
President Donald Trump on Sunday slammed the Paris climate accord, telling world leaders at the G20 summit that the pact was detrimental to US citizens. “To protect American workers, I withdrew the United States from the unfair and one-sided Paris climate accord, a very unfair act for the United States,” […]
SpaceX is aiming to soon launch a new 39-story rocket system called Starship-Super Heavy from Boca Chica at the southeastern tip of Texas. However, the aerospace company, founded by Elon Musk in 2002, must first complete a new environmental review with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) before it can receive […]
Carnival Corporation has paid millions of dollars in fines over the years for violating environmental regulations. Carnival is the parent company of major cruise lines like Carnival Cruise Line, Princess Cruises, P&O Cruises, and Holland America. Those cruise lines have all come under scrutiny over pollution since the 1990s. “We […]
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) gave SpaceX a green light to launch a constellation of thousands of internet satellites, called Starlink. But some astronomers worry that the bright satellites could blot out the stars and threaten astronomy itself. A forthcoming paper suggests the FCC’s approval of the project may violate […]
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