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On 25 August 2012, at 121.7 times the Earth–Sun distance, the particle counters aboard a spacecraft the size of a…
A signal can cross 13,000 kilometres without an electrical amplifier acting on the data because a chain of erbium-doped fibre…
On Sunday 4 November 1973, the A12 between The Hague and Utrecht was silent enough for children to ride bicycles…
The answer is that the cable is barely doing the work. The glass inside it is. Every intercontinental fibre carries…
On June 3, 1977, Ann Druyan sat for an hour-long recording session in New York while instruments captured the electrical…
From 6 billion kilometres out, Voyager 1 looked back in 1990 and found Earth reduced to a pale blue speck…