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A SpaceX rocket blasted off early on Friday carrying a U.S.-French satellite designed to conduct an unprecedented global survey of Earth's surface waters, a mission expected to shed new light on the mechanics and consequences of climate change.

A Franco-US satellite is due for launch on Friday for a landmark scientific mission to survey nearly all water on Earth's surface to help scientists investigate its impact on climate.

The Tesla and Twitter tycoon has donated to both parties and proclaims himself ‘neither left nor right’. But his escalating interventions in America’s culture wars tell a different story, writes Io Dodds

He’s ruling his newest acquisition the way he rules the rest of his empire: impulsively, erratically, vindictively, loudly. It really doesn’t need to be this way.

Elon Musk relaunched a Twitter subscription service on Monday after a first attempt saw an embarrassing spate of fake accounts that scared advertisers and cast doubt on the site's future. The first try last month came just 10 days after Musk's $44 billion takeover of the platform and a mass…

For people with disabilities, the sky may not always be the limit.

A Tokyo-based company has become the first private entity to send a mission to the moon. If successful, it will be the first moon landing by a Japanese spacecraft.

Thailand's satellite-related economy is expected to reach an important milestone next year with two major developments -- the auction of rights to use satellite orbital slots, scheduled for Jan 8, and a push by the telecom regulator to amend the rules governing landing rights licences for foreign satellite operators, paving…

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