Test fire trouble means Musk's rocketeers reset the 'days since Starship had a major anomaly' counter to zero SpaceX has made excellent progress with its Starship rocket. The stainless steel vehicle can now explode before even leaving the Earth.…
Lees meerStartup has already shown how to make drugs in space America's aviation regulator has issued its first license for unmanned spacecraft to reenter the Earth's atmosphere to Varda, a startup that's trying to build a space-based manufacturing business.…
Lees meerUK needs skills task force to get slice of $1.8 trillion pie, Lords told The British space industry is struggling to compete for math, physics, and engineering graduates against a banking sector that can offer £90,000 ($120,000) salaries.…
Lees meerFrance announced its own effort to build re-usable engines on the same day Japanese automotive giant Honda has successfully launched and landed a small rocket.…
Lees meerAmazon's satellite constellation hits another snag as ULA rocket aborts on pad A hardware glitch on United Launch Alliance's (ULA) workhorse Atlas V rocket delayed the launch of the second batch of Project Kuiper satellites.…
Lees meerClock speed of 25 kHz means 2D CMOS system won't run Doom quite yet Gaze into the temporal distance and you might spot the end of the age of silicon looming somewhere out there, as a research team at Penn State University claims to have built the fi…
Lees meerFor researchers yearning to earn some yen and escape Trump 2.0 Japan is the latest nation hoping to tempt disgruntled US researchers alarmed by the Trump administration's hostile attitude to academia to relocate to the Land of the Rising Sun.…
Lees meerEvaluation of latest repairs to Russian segment ongoing NASA has pushed back the launch of Axiom Mission 4 to the International Space Station (ISS), citing concerns over persistent leaks aboard the aging orbital outpost. A new No Earlier Than (NET) …
Lees meerSTEP sucked up £220 million in 2022, and it's still not apparent what that accomplished UPDATED The UK government has just allocated another £2.5 billion to an ambitious fusion energy project without any indication it's progressed much beyond the p…
Lees meerCombining quantum entanglement with hash chains promises randomness which can be relied on Scientists in the US have built a system for creating truly random numbers which cannot be tampered with by a third party.…
Lees meerSTEP sucked up £220 million in 2022, and it's still not apparent what that accomplished UPDATED The UK government has just allocated another £2.5 billion to an ambitious fusion energy project without any indication it's progressed much beyond the p…
Lees meerAll about consolidation as mission mouthpieces archived in pursuit of 'improving the experience' NASA is shutting down many of its social media accounts, including those dedicated to the Voyager mission and the Mars Curiosity and Perseverance rovers…
Lees meerSTEP sucked up £220 million in 2022, and it's still not apparent what that accomplished The UK government has just allocated another £2.5 billion to an ambitious fusion energy project without any indication it's progressed much beyond the planning s…
Lees meerWeather and propulsion system problems conspire to keep astronauts away from the ISS The Axiom-4 private astronaut mission to the International Space Station (ISS) has been held up by a liquid oxygen leak in the Falcon 9's first stage.…
Lees meerConfusingly, the magnetic north and south poles are both down there, where the Solar Orbiter can see them Occupants of planet Earth can’t see the Sun’s poles – unless they look at images the Solar Orbiter spacecraft has just sent home.…
Lees meerNot that kind of edible - this one's electronic DARPA has announced a research program to explore whether an "ingestible form factor" device can stimulate gut neurons to modulate stress responses, potentially improving decision-making and reducing t…
Lees meerNot that kind of edible - this one's electronic DARPA has announced a research program to explore whether an "ingestible form factor" device can stimulate gut neurons to modulate stress responses, potentially improving decision-making and reducing t…
Lees meerAll about consolidation as mission mouthpieces archived in pursuit of 'improving the experience' NASA is shutting down many of its social media accounts, including those dedicated to the Voyager mission and the Mars Curiosity and Perseverance rovers…
Lees meerScientists improve knowledge by 20% thanks to James Webb Space Telescope data The chance of Asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting the Moon has increased, according to boffins making observations from the James Webb Space Telescope.…
Lees meerElon Musk suggested this to Beijing years ago China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has ordered extensive trials of intelligent aged care robots.…
Lees meerOnline catalog gives open science access to data from early universe A NASA-backed project using observations from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has released more than 1.5 TB of data for open science, offering the largest view deep into the …
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