Mission to lunar orbit is further than any Photon satellite bus has gone before Rocket Lab has taken delivery of NASA's CAPSTONE spacecraft at its New Zealand launch pad ahead of a mission to the Moon.…
Lees meerReport says $42b will need to be poured into industry over next decade Growing demand for lithium for batteries means the sector will need $42 billion of investment to meet the anticipated level of orders by the end of the decade, according to a rep…
Lees meerFor those that want to keep their data in the homeland Quantum computing outfit D-Wave Systems has announced availability of an Advantage quantum computer accessible via the cloud but physically located in the US, a key move for selling quantum serv…
Lees meerWe speak to scientists involved in historic first snap – and no, this isn't the M87* Astronomers have captured a clear image of the gigantic supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy for the first time.…
Lees meerPasqal to provide compute based on approaches by Qu&Co acquisition BMW has become the latest company to give quantum an early chance, with the goal of shrinking development cycles beyond traditional means.…
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Lees meerWhat goes up will also come down. The question is... how? Orbex is showing off a full-scale prototype of the Prime rocket atop its test stand at Kinloss in Scotland.…
Lees meerRockets could fly from the UK as soon as next year The UK's SaxaVord spaceport has agreed a deal with Astra Space to launch satellites from the Unst facility from 2023.…
Lees meerNASA drops heater temp to boost batteries as dust hits solar supply The long-lived Ingenuity helicopter has made contact with NASA's Perseverance rover on Mars after an unexpected communications blackout.…
Lees meerApplications in lunar exploration and Earth-bound locomotion are possible Scientists with a grant have done what none thought possible – perhaps few even gave any thought to – and smashed the world record for the highest jumping robot.…
Lees meerBoffins get excited about building better machine synapses There's a potential solution on the cards to the energy expenditure problems plaguing AI training, and it sounds simple: just strengthen the "synapses" that move electrons through a memory a…
Lees meerScientists develop algorithm that decides if your job can just be an algorithm An online index of nearly a thousand jobs may useful in cluing in folks to the automation risk their field of employment faces.…
Lees meerFinal flight of Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy will be in 2022 Even as NASA publishes images demonstrating progress in the commission of the James Webb Space Telescope, preparations are being made to ground the Boeing 747-based Str…
Lees meerThe walls are alive with the sound of music Video Engineers at MIT have created paper-thin speakers using a plastic film and a piezoelectric layer embossed with tiny domes.…
Lees meerDoing anything Friday night? Fancy watching someone try to catch a rocket with a helicopter? Rocket Lab is to attempt the recovery of an Electron rocket tomorrow night, snagging the booster as it descends back to Earth by parachute.…
Lees meerPrepare your 'turn it off and on' jokes as engineers get ready to flip the heaters Attempts to recover ESA's stricken Sentinel-1B satellite are continuing and one of the failure scenarios engineers are considering will be familiar to some of us: pos…
Lees meerTeam America: Solar System Police The US Space Force has created a unit, the 19th Space Defense Squadron, to monitor activity in the region beyond Earth's geosynchronous orbit, all the way out to the Moon and yonder.…
Lees meerA fair price to get everyone to stop talking about Moore's Law for good Researchers in the US have received a $15 million National Science Foundation (NSF) award to develop superconductor chips that ought to be much faster and use significantly less…
Lees meerNobody wants flappy bits during an engine burn of Trojan asteroid explorer Engineers are to double down on efforts to get Lucy's solar array fully deployed amid worries regarding potential damage during a main engine burn of the Trojan asteroid expl…
Lees meerIf at first you don't succeed... you're probably NASA NASA's third attempt at an Artemis I wet dress rehearsal has ended with a plan to roll the agency's Moon rocket back to the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) for repairs.…
Lees meerPayloads pulled as Europe eyes alternatives The European Space Agency (ESA) has pulled back from yet more "cooperative activities" with Russia as the agency continues to adjust to life without its former partner.…
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