Different hardware, same problem NASA has fired up the Hubble Space Telescope's backup payload computer to find that the spacecraft still has problems.…
Lees meerThat which is born of the hack is hard to kill Column As these words are written, the Hubble SpaceTelescope is out of commission, victim of a computer fault yet to be diagnosed. It still orbits 550km up, still automatically aiming itself at targets…
Lees meerWe're looking forward to the late 21st-century colony wars Over the next quarter century, China wants to set up a permanent base on Mars for "large scale development of the Red Planet," and install a sci-fi carbon-nanotube elevator to shuttle goods …
Lees meerFull instructions given away for free, to 'nurture natural curiosity' A trio of boffins at the Georg August University Göttingen and Münster University have put together a low-cost yet high-resolution microscope for educational users – using smartph…
Lees meerBut the hair dye market isn't about to implode, there are limits Researchers have found that stress does indeed turn your hair grey, and that taking a break from all your worries sure would help a lot, even reversing the process – a discovery with p…
Lees meerMeanwhile, Porterbrook's Hydroflex trials continue A railway pressure group is calling on the UK government to throw its weight behind a new fleet of hydrogen-powered trains to help modernise existing rolling stock and get the nation's transport pol…
Lees meerPerhaps instrument-halting failure is due to compute and interconnect hardware, not memory, after all The Hubble Space Telescope may need to boot up a backup computer that's been dormant since 2009 to carry on operations.…
Lees meerBoffins looking for changes to cephalopods' symbiotic relationship with bioluminescent bacteria on ISS Immunology boffins in the US are hoping to learn the secret of how to keep humans well enough for long enough to live on the Moon or travel to Mar…
Lees meerNext up, the rocket stage to send mannequin to the Moon The stacking of NASA's monster Moon rocket is continuing in Florida with the launch vehicle stage adapter placed atop the newly vertical core stage.…
Lees meerGovernment Accountability Office warns of build-your-own-booster delays Things aren't looking too good for a certain American-produced rocket engine, according to the US Government Accountability Office - and it isn't SpaceX's Merlin.…
Lees meerHave you tried turning it off and on again? The Hubble Space Telescope has continued to resist efforts by NASA last week to bring its payload computer back online.…
Lees meerBiz will develop Magnetized Target Fusion technology at the site General Fusion – the Canadian-based atomic outfit backed by Jeff Bezos and a battalion of other major investors – is to build a test facility in Oxfordshire to showcase its power-gener…
Lees meerHello, 2002 called with one of the oldest low-tech tricks in the book Malware laced with racial epithets tries to block Windows-based victims from visiting file-sharing sites associated with copyright infringement, according to new Sophos research.…
Lees meerISS solar array installation overran after a good old 'off and on again' There are two things a spacewalker doesn't want to hear: "Can you turn it off and turn it on again?" and "What's that hissing sound?"…
Lees meerThough it's mostly just looking to make its cars safer, rather than hide them A team of researchers have detailed a range of techniques which they suggest could one day lead to a genuine cloak of invisibility - although, thanks to Toyota's involveme…
Lees meerJapan Supersonic Research wants to be in the air by 2030 Japan has a assembled a supergroup of aviation, industrial, and space organisations to build a supersonic passenger jet.…
Lees meerImagine the service ticket Computer scientists at NASA are trying to fix the Hubble Space Telescope’s payload computer after the hardware froze due to what's believed to be a degraded memory module.…
Lees meerLego ISS fans, look away now International Space Station (ISS) astronauts are venturing out of the orbiting outpost today to replace its ageing solar arrays.…
Lees meerPlans four crewed missions to assemble “heavenly palace” China will on Thursday launch a crew of three on a mission to start assembling the nation’s first space station.…
Lees meerThen solves a longstanding extinction puzzle Scientists at the University of Michigan have celebrated an experiment where ultra-tiny computers were strapped to the backs of snails – solving a long-unanswered extinction mystery.…
Lees meerPrivate companies to sort out the transportation, US agency's fees are non-trivial NASA is hoping to host more amateur astronauts at the International Space Station, putting them up for as much as two weeks at a time.…
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