Laser beam comms are fast, so long as the weather cooperates NASA's optical communications demonstration has hit 25 Mbps in a test transmitting engineering data back to Earth from 140 million miles (226 million kilometers) away.…
Lees meerWhat do we say to the God of Death? Not today Japan's Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) has woken up again, having survived three lunar nights.…
Lees meerMusk outfit's figures almost 10 times worse than industry averages Workplace safety data reported to the US government for 2023 indicates that SpaceX's injury rate continues to surpass the industry average.…
Lees meerMusk outfit's figures almost 10 times worse than industry averages Workplace safety data reported to the US government for 2023 indicates that SpaceX's injury rate continues to surpass the industry average.…
Lees meerMusk outfit's figures almost 10 times worse Workplace safety data reported to the US government for 2023 indicates that SpaceX's injury rate continues to surpass the industry average.…
Lees meerAll from billions of miles away NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft has begun returning usable engineering data after engineers devised a way to work around a damaged memory chip.…
Lees meerLook out for a new star next week Updated NASA is to send a solar sail demonstrator into orbit next week, and there is a good chance that the sail, measuring 860 square feet (80 square meters), will be visible from Earth.…
Lees meerCommercial operators must try Varda The US Federal Aviation Administration is updating its launch license requirements: if you're launching something designed for reentry, you'll need a license for that, too. Before you launch.…
Lees meerNot yet the London Underground style efficient schematic we want, but it's a start Boffins at the UK's Surrey Space Centre have devised a way of determining the optimal route for spacecraft that doesn't require the engines to burn precious fuel.…
Lees meerThermal shield damage is screwing with daytime observations of X-ray bursts NASA is sending astronauts out to fix an X-ray telescope on the International Space Station (ISS) after the instrument developed a "light leak."…
Lees meerOne last software update installed safely, reconfigured it as 'stationary testbed' NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter concluded its mission on Tuesday, sending a final signal in its role as a companion to the Perseverance Rover.…
Lees meerIf the plan was to make this all-electric droid look mildly terrifying, mission accomplished Video Atlas, the humanoid robot that's been a centerpiece of Boston Dynamics' robot lineup for nearly a decade, has been retired. In its place is, well, At…
Lees meerWhew! Relief for boffins as rotorcraft slated to arrive at Saturn moon in 2034 NASA has finally confirmed its Dragonfly rotorcraft mission will be heading to Titan, one of Saturn's Moons, meaning the team behind the project can finalize its design a…
Lees meerIf the plan was to make this all-electric droid look mildly terrifying, mission accomplished Video Atlas, the humanoid robot that's been a centerpiece of Boston Dynamics' robot lineup for nearly a decade, has been retired. In its place is, well, At…
Lees meerWhew! Relief for boffins as rotorcraft slated to arrive at Saturn moon in 2034 NASA has finally confirmed its Dragonfly rotorcraft mission will be heading to Titan, one of Saturn's Moons, meaning the team behind the project can finalize its design a…
Lees meerJetson module can efficiently process computational fluid dynamics models Analysis Researchers in China have reportedly demonstrated how a low-cost Nvidia Jetson module could theoretically be used to direct a hypersonic weapon.…
Lees meerJetson module can efficiently process computational fluid dynamics models Analysis Researchers in China have reportedly demonstrated how a low-cost Nvidia Jetson module could theoretically be used to direct a hypersonic weapon.…
Lees meerWho needs aircon when you have NASA to punch holes through your home? NASA has confirmed that a piece of space junk that crashed through a Florida home in March was a fragment of a discarded ISS battery pallet.…
Lees meer'Luminous phenomena' on the cards, but half a ton of debris could survive A pallet of used batteries from the International Space Station (ISS) is due to re-enter the Earth's atmosphere at some point in the next day, and some parts of the 2.6 metric…
Lees meerCurrent plans are too expensive and slow, meaning China could win race to score red rocks NASA still wants to proceed with its Mars Sample Return (MSR) mission but needs its cost to drop – so it's seeking help from the commercial space sector.…
Lees meerSince you can't get a soldering iron out there, the fix will be in software Engineers at NASA have pinpointed some corrupted memory as the cause of Voyager 1's troubles and are working on a remote fix to deal with the hardware problem.…
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