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WebBeginning in 1960, two teachers and their pupils at Kettering Grammar School tracked Soviet spacecraft using a war-surplus radio receiver. In 1966, the unusual orbits of Kosmos 112 and later satellites allowed them to pinpoint a secret launch site at Plesetsk, roughly 800 kilometres north of Moscow—17 years before the Soviet Union officially acknowledged the cosmodrome existed.
41+ min ago (482+ words) A school satellite-tracking group used surplus radio equipment and intersecting orbital ground tracks to place the Soviet Union’s hidden Plesetsk launch site on the public map....
From 1974 to 1990 Kumamoto Prefecture sealed about 1.5 million cubic metres of Minamata Bay sediment above 25 ppm mercury under a 58-hectare landfill that cost 48 billion yen
1+ hour, 46+ min ago (26+ words) Stand on the eastern shore of Minamata Bay today and part of the ground underfoot is manufactured: 58 hectares of reclaimed land, capped with mountain soil,...
In 2002 just 94 Iberian lynxes survived in two Andalusian pockets, 54 at Andújar and 40 at Doñana; the 2025 census counted 2,663 across 26 nuclei, with 542 territorial females
1+ hour, 46+ min ago (85+ words) In 2002, field teams could account for 94 Iberian lynxes on the entire planet, and every one of them lived in Andalusia: 54 in the scrub and holm oak of...
In 1995 New Zealand's kākāpō recovery programme began with 51 birds, 20 of them females; on 1 September 2026 DOC added 90 chicks from one season, lifting the official count to 325
1+ hour, 47+ min ago (141+ words) In 1995, the entire known kākāpō population fit into a single ledger line: 51 birds, 31 males and 20 females, spread across offshore islands where...
A box turtle in Louisiana lost both back legs, so veterinarians built it a tiny wheelchair from LEGO car wheels, syringe cases and epoxy — within minutes Pedro was reversing, turning and moving around on his own again
18+ hour, 8+ min ago (232+ words) When a beloved box turtle lost his mobility, a veterinary team improvised with spare parts and rapid engineering—proving that sometimes the best solutions come from creative constraint, not cutting-edge technology....
On 5 September 1977 Voyager 1 left Cape Canaveral at 721.9 kg; as of 21 August 2024 it was 164.7 AU from Earth, moving about 38,027 mph relative to the Sun and still returning data
19+ hour, 56+ min ago (177+ words) Nearly five decades after launch, humanity's most distant emissary continues whispering back from the edge of the solar system, defying every expectation of how long a machine can survive in the void....
Adult females of a millipede newly described from the Kazakh Altai have almost no second pair of legs, the subadult females still have them, and in both of the only two adult females collected the flattened leg bases block the genital opening
1+ day, 3+ hour ago (705+ words) The reduction appears to be unique in the millipede order Polydesmida, and in both known adult females the flattened leg bases sit over the vulva like a lid. More than forty adult males came out of the same litter sample, and…...
After more than 50 years, a solar telescope in New Mexico is being pulled down, after liquid mercury from the bearing that let its 250-ton optical system turn was found inside the tower. Crews found the metal on January 5.
2+ day, 2+ hour ago (575+ words) By The Daily Orbit Published September 11, 2026 · How we edit A solar telescope in New Mexico is being torn down, and the reason is a pool of liquid mercury hidden inside it. The mercury was the clever trick that made the…...
Opportunity’s solar panels were mysteriously getting cleaner long before the rover ever saw the suspected culprit: it did not photograph its first Martian dust devil until six and a half years after landing.
2+ day, 5+ hour ago (1267+ words) Opportunity’s changing power output recorded repeated wind-cleaning events years before its camera caught a dust devil. The six-and-a-half-year gap reveals the difference between detecting an effect and identifying its cause. By Mission Notes · Edited by Lachlan Brown Published September 10, 2026 · How…...
NASA lost a $125 million spacecraft at Mars because one engineering team used English units while another expected metric — the mismatch quietly pushed the orbiter onto the wrong trajectory after nine months in space
2+ day, 13+ hour ago (231+ words) A decade of planning and a quarter-billion dollars in funding vanished in seconds when two teams speaking different measurement languages sent a spacecraft crashing into Mars....