‘Internet Apocalypse’? Sure but Inspiration4 is also go for launch in this week’s science news

Image credit: NASA / Solar Dynamics Observatory. Article by John Loeffler. Tech Radar – September 11, 2021.

Climate change is, as ever, looming in behind all of it though

Leading off the post-Labor Day science news this week were a couple of newly-announced launch dates for some historic space flights, as well as a new study that examines how a severe solar storm could trigger a months-long internet apocalypse. Inspiration4 set a tentative […]

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