No, this was not the cause of cellular network outages that hit the USA on Thursday NASA has warned of strong solar flares that have the potential to interrupt communications in space and down here on Earth.…
Lees meerGoverment takes TEPCO to task for caesium absorption tower incident Japan's Economy, Trade and Industry minister has called on Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. (TEPCO) to improve its management of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant …
Lees meerIt slides into orbit. Now comes (another) hard part Updated Intuitive Machines has tweaked today's Moon landing time to 2230 UTC following the successful insertion of its Odysseus lander into lunar orbit.…
Lees meerLike the reality, the concept is blown up out of all proportion. So who launched it this time around? Opinion Space nukes. You're kidding, right? Not if scary reports for last week are true, and Russia is indeed reviving some of the Cold War's more…
Lees meerBrain-computer interface trial continues to display troubling lack of transparency Founder Elon Musk has announced that the first human to receive a Neuralink brain-computer interface has fully recovered and can control a computer mouse pointer with…
Lees meerBrain-computer interface trial continues to display troubling lack of transparency Founder Elon Musk has announced that the first human to receive a Neuralink brain-computer interface has fully recovered and can control a computer mouse pointer with…
Lees meerMission a step along the road to commercial orbit decluttering A Japanese satellite lofted by Rocket Lab is to monitor a chunk of space junk ahead of future missions designed to curtail orbital debris.…
Lees meerLike the reality, the concept is blown up out of all proportion. So who launched it this time around? Opinion Space nukes. You're kidding, right? Not if scary reports for last week are true, and Russia is indeed reviving some of the Cold War's more…
Lees meerOne giant leap for astronaut medicine Updated The world's first remote-operated robot space surgeon has been successfully tested, the team behind the device said this week.…
Lees meer121 grams is the largest such sample secured, but NASA won't blow it all at once NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft snagged 121.6 grams of material from asteroid Bennu – the largest quantity ever retrieved by such a mission.…
Lees meerOne giant leap for astronaut medicine The world's first remote-operated robot space surgeon has been successfully tested, the team behind the device said this week.…
Lees meer121 grams is the largest such sample secured, but NASA won't blow it all at once NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft snagged 121.6 grams of material from asteroid Bennu – the largest quantity ever retrieved by such a mission.…
Lees meerSaffire concludes after eight years of flaming good times NASA has concluded its Spacecraft Fire Safety Experiment (Saffire) with a test onboard a Northrop Grumman Cygnus spacecraft after it departed from the International Space Station (ISS).…
Lees meerTaking Disaster Recovery as a Service to lunar extremes NASA is taking another crack at a commercial mission to the Moon with the launch of the Intuitive Machines' IM-1 mission this morning.…
Lees meerThe curious incident of the instrument cover on the Red Planet rover NASA's Perseverance is having trouble with one of its instruments – which could mean the rover will no longer be able to zap rocks with its laser.…
Lees meerReady for cruising: successful deployment leaves the ball in the scientists' court NASA says its latest take on solar sail technology is ready for proposals for it to be flown on science missions.…
Lees meerThe Small Bodies Nomenclature Working Group has just given 29 space rocks names The Small Bodies Nomenclature Working Group (WGSBN) – the folks responsible for assigning names to minor planets and comets – last week published a bulletin in which it …
Lees meerThe Small Bodies Nomenclature Working Group has just given 29 space rocks names The Small Bodies Nomenclature Working Group (WGSBN) – the folks responsible for assigning names to minor planets and comets – last week published a bulletin [PDF] in whi…
Lees meerSecond test flight for failed H3 booster after a run of bad luck Japan will on Wednesday try to reboot its space program with a second test flight for its H3 booster.…
Lees meerAround The World in 84 days It is 50 years this week since Skylab's final crew departed the station after a record-setting 84 days of flight.…
Lees meerMeanwhile ITER's not slated to start deuterium-tritium ops until 2035 The Joint European Torus (JET) has bowed out with a final hurrah by setting a world record in energy output.…
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