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Boeing and NASA have announced that astronaut and mission commander Chris Ferguson is stepping down from the first crewed CST-100 Starliner space mission for family reasons. He will be replaced by veteran NASA astronaut Barry “Butch” Wilmore.Continue R… Continue reading Boeing’s CST Starliner mission swaps commanders
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has passed a major milestone, completing its prelaunch environmental testing. The space agency and primary contractor Northrop Grumman subjected the fully assembled spacecraft to several weeks of acoustic and sine-vibr… Continue reading James Webb Space Telescope completes prelaunch environmental tests
A team of scientists led by Washington State University (WSU) geobiologist Dirk Schulze-Makuch has identified two dozen exoplanets that could be more favorable to life than the Earth. Based on data from the Kepler mission, these super-habitable worlds … Continue reading 24 “super-habitable” exoplanets potentially better than Earth identified
AeroVironment has unveiled its latest loitering missile unmanned aircraft system for the US Army and other customers. Based on the Switchblade 300, which was deployed with US forces in Iraq and Afghanistan in 2011, the Switchblade 600 is larger with in… Continue reading Switchblade 600 drone provides improved loitering missile capability
DARPA has awarded a US$14-million contract to the Gryphon Technologies engineering firm to develop and demonstrate a nuclear rocket engine for the agency’s Demonstration Rocket for Agile Cislunar Operations (DRACO) program. The High-Assay Low Enriched … Continue reading Gryphon Technologies to develop nuclear rocket engine for DARPA
DARPA has awarded a US$14-million contract to the Gryphon Technologies engineering firm to develop and demonstrate a nuclear rocket engine for the agency’s Demonstration Rocket for Agile Cislunar Operations (DRACO) program. The High-Assay Low Enriched … Continue reading Gryphon Technologies to develop nuclear rocket engine for DARPA
A new study of the orbit of comets suggests that the plane of the ecliptic, where the Earth’s orbit rests, may not be the only major alignment in the solar system. By tracking the point where long-period comets are farthest from the Sun, Arika Higuchi,… Continue reading Comet orbits suggest a second major solar system alignment plane
A new study of the orbit of comets suggests that the plane of the ecliptic, where the Earth’s orbit rests, may not be the only major alignment in the solar system. By tracking the point where long-period comets are farthest from the Sun, Arika Higuchi,… Continue reading Comet orbits suggest a second major solar system alignment plane
Britain has sent two satellites into space that are smaller than a microwave, yet are the smartest ever produced by the UK. On September 28, 2020 at 12:20 pm BST, four Glasgow-built Spire nanosatellites lifted off atop a Russian Soyuz launcher, two of … Continue reading UK’s supercomputer nanosatellites to better predict ship movements
Britain has sent two satellites into space that are smaller than a microwave, yet are the smartest ever produced by the UK. On September 28, 2020 at 12:20 pm BST, four Glasgow-built Spire nanosatellites lifted off atop a Russian Soyuz launcher, two of … Continue reading UK’s supercomputer nanosatellites to better predict ship movements