In the intense early days of the space race, a small, unusual satellite was launched into space sixty-seven years ago.

A proposed mission seeks to retrieve Vanguard-1 and display it as an ancient relic of the space age.

Stock Advisor returns as of April 1, 2025 John Mackey, former CEO of Whole Foods Market, an Amazon subsidiary, is a member of The Motley Fool's board of directors. Suzanne Frey, an executive at ...

Speaking on the challenges facing the economy and the business environment which forms the basis for the Discourse, Chairman of the upcoming national event, Mr Dele Oye, stated: “As we navigate ...

The BBC said Monday its real income has fallen by £1 billion ($1.3 billion) a year compared to 2010 as it warned of “unprecedented” challenges to funding its content. “Without intervention ...

To be sure, the Vanguard High Dividend Yield ETF (NYSEMKT ... Note that beta is a volatility metric, and a beta of less than 1 indicates lower historic volatility than the S&P 500.

up from £1.50 previously – equivalent to 4.8%. For context, the FTSE 100 delivered a total return of 9.7% in 2024, meaning the Vanguard fee would have wiped out approximately half of your ...

The Vanguard Growth ETF tracks the performance of the Growth Index, and it has beaten the S&P 500 every year since it was established in 2004. The Vanguard ETF is currently down 11% from its ...

The S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC) index returned 25% (including dividends) in 2024, which was more than double its long-term average of 10.5%. However, the CRSP U.S. Large Cap Growth Index delivered ...

China launched its first Tianlian satellite—Tianlian-1 (01)—in 2008. It, and the subsequent Tianlian-1 (02) and (03) satellites, are now in graveyard orbits above the geostationary belt ...

It was described in Nature on March 19. The satellite, called Jinan-1, is ten times lighter, 45 times cheaper and much more efficient than its predecessor, Micius, which launched in 2016 ...

This program has also been driving down launch times through its “Victus” program, which started with the Victus Nox launch in 2023—sending a satellite to space just 27 hours after receiving ...