Roughly 60 specialized ships worldwide can lay or repair the undersea cables that carry more than 99% of intercontinental data — and a July 2025 study finds about two-thirds of the maintenance fleet ...
On 5 September 1977, a Titan IIIE/Centaur rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral carrying Voyager 1 toward Jupiter and Saturn. NASA’s Voyager FAQ gives the spacecraft’s launch mass, including hydrazine ...
On 25 August 2012, at 121.7 times the Earth–Sun distance, the particle counters aboard a spacecraft the size of a subcompact car went abruptly quiet. The charged particles streaming out from the Sun, ...