Billionaire suggests a payload would have solved the problem. And we have a suggestion for who that payload could be SpaceX boss Elon Musk has blamed a lack of payload coupled with the venting of liquid oxygen for last year's fiery end to the second…
Lees meerDoing science and still alive ... but not for long Astrobotic has confirmed that the doomed Peregrine Lunar Lander's mission will end on Thursday, January 18 with the spacecraft burning up in the Earth's atmosphere.…
Lees meerApplications across chemistry, energy, and medicine await human-free acceleration Scientists have developed a platform based around a robot guided by an AI-based computer system, which could slash the time for engineering new proteins from months to…
Lees meerBoffins say the quiet part out loud: There's no room for the sonic boom NASA's X-59 quiet supersonic aircraft made its public debut on Friday in a media event at the Lockheed Martin Skunk Works in Palmdale, California, where the plane was designed.…
Lees meerHeads up, this isn't about Elon When the World Economic Forum meets in Davos next week, global leaders are set to discuss how to prevent a future unknown "Disease X" the World Health Organization predicts could kill 20 times more people than the rec…
Lees meerNo human will set foot on regolith for 2-plus years now NASA's Moon mission launch dates have slid by about a year – Artemis II to September 2025 and Artemis III to September 2026. Artemis IV, the first mission to the Gateway lunar space station, re…
Lees meerGulp! The average store-bought bottle of water contains somewhere in the neighborhood of 10 to 100 times more minute plastic particles than previously believed, judging from a study published this week.…
Lees meerRoll up, roll up. See Ouroboros-3 eating its own fuselage Interview The concept of a self-eating rocket is rearing its head once again as engineers showcase their work at the AIAA SciTech Forum.…
Lees meerRoll up, roll up. See Ouroboros-3 eating its own fuselage Interview The concept of a self-eating rocket is rearing its head once again as engineers showcase their work at the AIAA SciTech Forum.…
Lees meerNo human will set foot on Moon for 2+years now NASA's Moon mission launch dates have slid by about a year – Artemis II to September 2025 and Artemis III to September 2026. Artemis IV, the first mission to the Gateway lunar space station, remains sch…
Lees meerGulp! The average store-bought bottle of water contains somewhere in the neighborhood of 10 to 100 times more minute plastic particles than previously believed, judging from a study published this week.…
Lees meerUS, Netherlands, Germany all show spikes while UK no longer collects data US President Joe Biden declared the pandemic over in September 2022. Weeks into 2024, however, global data points to a surge in infections.…
Lees meerUS, Netherlands, Germany all show spikes, while the UK no longer collects data US President Joe Biden declared the pandemic over in September 2022. Weeks into 2024, however, global data points to a surge in infections.…
Lees meerUK trumpets British tech aboard doomed spacecraft The Peregrine Mission One lunar lander has just hours of power left before its ambitious mission will be prematurely terminated.…
Lees meerUS, the Netherlands, and Germany all show spikes, while the UK no longer collects the data US President Joe Biden declared the pandemic over in September 2022. Weeks into 2024, however, global data points to a surge in infections.…
Lees meerAlso: Huawei in patent deal with Nokia, and China slates 2025 as year for mass produced flying cars ASIA IN BRIEF The Indian government’s commercial space agency arm, NewSpace India, has spilled the details [PDF] on how the country would launch a b…
Lees meerAstrobotic's Peregrine packed with NASA science gear and other payloads may be a bust Updated The first commercial American Moon lander – built by startup Astrobotic to carry NASA instruments and private payloads to the lunar surface – is in troubl…
Lees meerAstrobotic's Peregrine packed with NASA science gear and other payloads now looks like a bust The first commercial American Moon lander – built by startup Astrobotic to carry NASA instruments and private payloads to the lunar surface – is in trouble…
Lees meerAstrobotic's Peregrine packed with NASA science gear and other payloads now looks like a bust The first private Moon lander – built by startup Astrobotic to carry NASA instruments and private payloads to the lunar surface – is in trouble: spacecraft…
Lees meerYour turn, Starship The relief was palpable as United Launch Alliance (ULA) successfully launched the first of its next-generation Vulcan rockets.…
Lees meerYour turn, Starship The relief was palpable as United Launch Alliance (ULA) successfully launched the first of its next-generation Vulcan rockets.…
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