Thermal shield damage is screwing with daytime observations of X-ray bursts NASA is sending astronauts out to fix an X-ray telescope on the International Space Station (ISS) after the instrument developed a "light leak."…
Lees meerOne last software update installed safely, reconfigured it as 'stationary testbed' NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter concluded its mission on Tuesday, sending a final signal in its role as a companion to the Perseverance Rover.…
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Lees meerWhew! Relief for boffins as rotorcraft slated to arrive at Saturn moon in 2034 NASA has finally confirmed its Dragonfly rotorcraft mission will be heading to Titan, one of Saturn's Moons, meaning the team behind the project can finalize its design a…
Lees meerIf the plan was to make this all-electric droid look mildly terrifying, mission accomplished Video Atlas, the humanoid robot that's been a centerpiece of Boston Dynamics' robot lineup for nearly a decade, has been retired. In its place is, well, At…
Lees meerWhew! Relief for boffins as rotorcraft slated to arrive at Saturn moon in 2034 NASA has finally confirmed its Dragonfly rotorcraft mission will be heading to Titan, one of Saturn's Moons, meaning the team behind the project can finalize its design a…
Lees meerJetson module can efficiently process computational fluid dynamics models Analysis Researchers in China have reportedly demonstrated how a low-cost Nvidia Jetson module could theoretically be used to direct a hypersonic weapon.…
Lees meerJetson module can efficiently process computational fluid dynamics models Analysis Researchers in China have reportedly demonstrated how a low-cost Nvidia Jetson module could theoretically be used to direct a hypersonic weapon.…
Lees meerWho needs aircon when you have NASA to punch holes through your home? NASA has confirmed that a piece of space junk that crashed through a Florida home in March was a fragment of a discarded ISS battery pallet.…
Lees meer'Luminous phenomena' on the cards, but half a ton of debris could survive A pallet of used batteries from the International Space Station (ISS) is due to re-enter the Earth's atmosphere at some point in the next day, and some parts of the 2.6 metric…
Lees meerCurrent plans are too expensive and slow, meaning China could win race to score red rocks NASA still wants to proceed with its Mars Sample Return (MSR) mission but needs its cost to drop – so it's seeking help from the commercial space sector.…
Lees meerSince you can't get a soldering iron out there, the fix will be in software Engineers at NASA have pinpointed some corrupted memory as the cause of Voyager 1's troubles and are working on a remote fix to deal with the hardware problem.…
Lees meerSince you can't get a soldering iron out there, the fix will be in software Engineers at NASA have pinpointed some corrupted memory as the cause of Voyager 1's troubles and are working on a remote fix to deal with the hardware problem.…
Lees meerHydrotreated vegetable oil to power bit barns stateside after successful Euro trial Datacenter operator Digital Realty is replacing diesel with hydrotreated vegetable oil (HVO) at sites in the US in a bid to reduce carbon dioxide emissions following…
Lees meerThe particle bearing his name lives on Obituary In a world dominated by instant gratification, Peter Higgs, who died earlier this week, had to wait more than half of his 94-year lifetime to see his theoretical predictions confirmed, thereby changin…
Lees meer2025 unlikely to see more money flow as Congress turns off the tap An increase in federal spending for the sciences in the US was short-lived, as the 2024 budget has seen significant cuts for many agencies – and 2025 looks to be on a similar track.…
Lees meerByteflow dropped by around half under some of the path of totality Cloudflare has measured the state of the internet during the solar eclipse that was visible on Monday across a swathe of North America, and found a measurable decrease in traffic.…
Lees meerStudy finds workers' sense of meaningfulness and autonomy declines with automation Robots may make companies more productive, as some studies have suggested, but they make people feel that their jobs have less meaning.…
Lees meerEd Dwight, almost America's first Black astronaut, will ride New Shepard rocket Blue Origin has announced the crew flying on its NS-25. Former US Air Force Captain Ed Dwight is among the six aiming to travel aboard the reusable rocket past the Kármá…
Lees meerAt $4.6 billion, this Moon malarkey is getting expensive NASA has selected three companies to develop designs for a lunar terrain vehicle (LTV) to transport astronauts around the Moon.…
Lees meer3.2 glorious gigapixels to make 'the greatest movie of all time' Construction of the LSST Camera, destined for the Vera C Rubin Observatory in Chile has been completed at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in Silicon Valley.…
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