Tariq is the Editor-in-Chief of Space.com and joined the team in 2001, first as an intern and staff writer, and later as an editor. He covers human spaceflight, exploration and space science, as well as skywatching and entertainment. He became Space.com's Managing Editor in 2009 and Editor-in-Chief in 2019. Before joining Space.
Jam packed issues filled with the latest cutting-edge research, technology and theories delivered in an entertaining and visually stunning way, aiming to educate and inspire readers of all agesA brilliant fireball lit up the night sky over some southern states in the United States this weekend, but that was no meteor. It was Chinese space junk.
The fireball, which streaked over parts of Missisippi, Arkansa and Missouri on Saturday night , was the death knell of a defunct Chinese commercial Earth imaging"The commercial imaging satellite 高景一号02星 , operated by Beijing-based SpaceView reentered above New Orleans at 0408 UTC Dec 22 heading northbound towards MS, AR, MO and was widely observed," wrote Jonathan McDowell, an astrosphycist at the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics who tracks satellite launches and...
The SuperView 1 satellites were China's first-ever commercial high-resolution Earth observations satellites. Each weighed about 1,235 pounds and carried cameras with a resolution of about 0.5 per pixel.
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