The collaborative effort pits supercomputers against the agency's corrosive reactor research After more than 50 years, molten salt nuclear reactors might be making a comeback. The US Department of Energy (DoE) has tapped Los Alamos National Laborato…
Lees meerInternetwork of satellite networks advances to 'actually building' stuff stage DARPA's attempt to build an internetwork of communications satellites – which operates under the fabulous name Space-BACN – has tapped Intel, SpaceX and others to build k…
Lees meerSupermaterial created from heated scales. Sorry about the smell Scientists in Japan have figured out a new way to create sustainable LEDs: by microwaving fish.…
Lees meerToo much junk in the orbital trunk Debris from a Russian anti-satellite missile is causing chaos in orbit, with shards of ex-spacecraft circling the Earth at perilous speeds.…
Lees meerInterferometry will be used to turn six toaster-sized satellites into one giant solar observatory NASA has plans to build a telescope six miles (9.66km) wide in Earth orbit, comprised of a constellation of six toaster-sized satellites. The first of …
Lees meerSpaceX to pick up the slack while the rocket is updated yet again Russia's invasion of Ukraine is being felt at Northrop Grumman, forcing it to make alternative plans that now include asking Firefly Aerospace to build the first stage of its Antares …
Lees meerLords cite 'frequent' policy changes, lack of metrics, post-Brexit funding issues as top issues How's the UK doing in its ambitions to become a sci-tech "superpower" by 2030? According to a report by the Lords Science and Technology Committee, it's …
Lees meerIt's hard to make things out there when dust-sized particles can destroy them The US Federal Communications Commission is looking at how it can help kickstart manufacturing in space, but said orbital debris needs to be addressed first.…
Lees meerSatellites end up in 'unusable' orbit India’s small satellite launch vehicle (SSLV) made a spectacular debut launch on Sunday, but the mission fell short of overall success when two satellites were inserted into the incorrect orbit, rendering them s…
Lees meerYeah, they do have a habit of being in places where they are no longer welcome Russia's space agency has signaled it may well continue maintaining its chunk of the International Space Station to potentially as far out as 2030. Or as early as 2025.…
Lees meerBuys up land to train and entertain space tourists when they do start Virgin Galactic (VG) is once again delaying its commercial service, shifting the expected launch of well-to-do space tourists from the first three months of 2023 to Q2, amid widen…
Lees meerLicencing snafu sends American invention overseas When US national laboratories develop a new technology, Uncle Sam is supposed to ensure it is commercialized in America. But that's not what happened with what's said to be a breakthrough battery des…
Lees meerThanks, we'll take any good news, large or small, right now Vid The aviation industry's attempts to go green are getting a boost from an unlikely place: carbon-neutral jet fuel pulled from thin air.…
Lees meerA $26m chunk of the infrastructure bill set aside to prove it can handle inverter-based energy The Biden administration is confident in the US's ability to demonstrate its power grid can run entirely on clean power, so it's giving the Department of …
Lees meerWhat would you do with an otherwise healthy spacecraft? ESA has admitted defeat and declared the mission of its Sentinel-1B spacecraft is at an end after attempts to deal with a borked power bus ended in failure.…
Lees meerMonolith found in Australian field actually a piece of SpaceX vehicle Australian media has reported that space debris found in New South Wales was indeed junk from a SpaceX mission, including one piece measuring nearly three meters in length.…
Lees meerDammit Jim, I'm a piece of autonomous equipment, not a doctor NASA is funding research to build an autonomous robot gripper theoretically capable of performing medical surgery, and which is to be launched to the International Space Station in 2024.…
Lees meerIs this what they mean by garbage collection? Anyone who’s driven by a landfill is all too aware of the stinky consequences of our lifestyles.…
Lees meerWhat could go wrong? Study finds waste is more reactive, making it more dangerous The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission is set to approve the country's first ever small modular reactor (SMR) design, setting up a potential expansion of small-scale nuc…
Lees meerNASA chief slams Beijing for not disclosing Long March 5B trajectory Debris leftover from China's Long March 5B rocket has reportedly crashed down into the sea off the Philippines, and scattered on land by the borders of Indonesia and Malaysia.…
Lees meerA dazzling problem SpaceX's has big claims that its second-generation Starlink broadband internet satellites will slash light pollution on Earth, but there's one big catch: they're too heavy to launch.…
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