Musk to demonstrate his is mightier than Bezos or Branson's The first orbital spaceflight crewed completely by civilians, Inspiration4, is due to launch tonight from Kennedy Space Center's Launch Complex 39A atop a SpaceX Falcon 9.…
Lees meerFirst try had a habit of melting its mirrors, apparently DSEI 2021 The UK has awarded contracts for laser cannons to be fitted to tanks and warships, a mere five years after first bounding into the field of directed energy weapons.…
Lees meerIn terms of building materials, Mars has nothing to offer but blood, soil, sweat and tears. And urine. Lots of urine A group of boffins from the University of Manchester have proposed an innovative if unexpected way of creating structures for any fu…
Lees meerToo early to confirm ancient alien life, but a 'potentially habitable sustained environment,' though... NASA scientists can breathe a sigh of relief now that Perseverance has successfully collected not one but two Martian rock specimens, after its f…
Lees meerA potentially iffy component in the flight actuation system this time Virgin Galactic's schedule woes worsened last last week as the company pushed its next flight to mid-October thanks to a potentially defective flight control component.…
Lees meerPlans to send remote devices to work at 70-year-old decommissioned nuclear power station may not be so barking Tired of doing parkour on the internet, robots from Boston Dynamics have been deployed at UK nuclear facilities to carry out routine tasks…
Lees meerTime to hit the road Orolia – the Resilient Positioning, Navigation and Timing (PNT) outfit with its European HQ in France – has won two contracts worth €70m to provide atomic clocks for the first 12 satellites of the Galileo Second Generation Syste…
Lees meerAir purified, everyone back to bed, says Roscosmos, studiously ignoring smoke, burning smell Russian cosmonauts on the International Space Station (ISS) had their preparations for an important spacewalk rudely interrupted early this morning when an …
Lees meerThis thing better not explode on the pad The long-awaited James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is set to launch – surprise, surprise – a little later than expected. Space agencies in America, Europe, and Canada said on Wednesday they're now aiming for …
Lees meerHer attorney argues she made mistakes ... like trusting her former partner and COO Sunny Balwani Attorneys representing Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes and the US Justice Department presented their opening arguments on Wednesday in a federal court…
Lees meerIn space, everyone can see you emit brightly shining gas, X-rays, and radio waves A multinational team of astronomers has discovered what happens when a large star accidentally eats a black hole or neutron star: it emits a catastrophically violent, …
Lees meer'Arrived' back on the planet quite a bit sooner than expected, sure Firefly Aerospace has confirmed that one of its Reaver engines shut down shortly after its Alpha rocket left the pad last week, resulting in the destruction of the vehicle in specta…
Lees meerFirefly Aerospace rounds out a wobbly week for rocket fanciers Video The sudden and explosive end of Firefly Aerospace's first test flight of its Alpha rocket rounded out a hat-trick of woe for rocket fans this week.…
Lees meerBiz defends 'safe and successful' ride America's aviation safety officials have grounded Virgin Galactic flights after its rocket trip that took company founder Richard Branson up into the heavens for a few minutes went off course.…
Lees meerNow to enact humanity's cunning interplanetary kidnapping plan NASA's Perseverance Mars rover has successfully drilled into a rock and probably retrieved a sample it's hoped will one day be kidnapped on a one-way trip to Earth.…
Lees meerDuke University boffins figure out a way to boost the security of recognition networks Boffins from Duke University say they have figured out a way to help protect artificial intelligences from adversarial image-modification attacks: by throwing a f…
Lees meerJoby hopes to push its service live in 2024 NASA is testing electric flying cars for a business that's hoping to launch a commercial air taxi service in 2024.…
Lees meerHold onto your hats, tinfoil brigade! Researchers in Japan have developed a means of wireless charging that would enable electronic devices to be pumped with power anywhere within a room.…
Lees meerGadget due to be tested this week Video Space-flight researchers are ready to test a prototype drag sail that could one day be used to prevent spacecraft turning into hazardous junk stuck for years in Earth's orbit.…
Lees meerJudge asks prospective jurors whether they have experience with intimate partner violence The long anticipated fraud trial of Elizabeth Holmes, the founder of biomed upstart Theranos, got underway in San Jose, California, on Tuesday with Judge Edwar…
Lees meerHead of Russia's segment says it's time for Roscosmos to build its own orbiting lab Cracks characterized as superficial by Russia have been discovered in the nation's portion of the International Space Station.…
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