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Richard Browning’s Jet Suit may have a lock on cool, but now it’s looking for practical applications. Britain’s Great North Air Ambulance Service (GNAAS) has collaborated with Gravity Industries on a test flight at the Langdale Pikes in the Lake Distri… Continue reading Jet Suit flight test raises prospect of flying “Iron Man” paramedics
Richard Browning’s Jet Suit may have a lock on cool, but now it’s looking for practical applications. Britain’s Great North Air Ambulance Service (GNAAS) has collaborated with Gravity Industries on a test flight at the Langdale Pikes in the Lake Distri… Continue reading Jet Suit flight test raises prospect of flying “Iron Man” paramedics
ZeroAvia says it has completed the world’s first hydrogen fuel-cell-powered flight of a commercial-grade aircraft. On September 23, 2020, a modified Piper M-class six-seater plane, which ZeroAvia says is now the largest hydrogen-powered aircraft in the… Continue reading World’s largest hydrogen-powered plane makes maiden flight
ESA’s Mars Express orbiter has found evidence of more liquid water beneath the ice cap in the south polar region of Mars. Based on data from the Mars Advanced Radar for Subsurface and Ionosphere Sounding (MARSIS) radar instrument, researchers found thr… Continue reading Mars Express finds more subsurface ponds of liquid water on Mars
The first results from ESA’s Characterising Exoplanet Satellite (Cheops) exoplanet mission has revealed one of the hottest and most extreme planets orbiting another star. Located 322 light years away in the constellation of Libra, WASP-189 b is an ultr… Continue reading Ultra-hot Jupiter exoplanet where iron turns to gas discovered
The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has uncovered the coldest temperature ever recorded in the Northern Hemisphere. Based on historical readings from an automatic weather station in Greenland, on December 22, 1991, Klinck, located on the summit… Continue reading 1991 data reveals Northern Hemisphere’s coldest recorded temperature
In a move that could lead to new innovations in antibiotic production, the genome of a freeze-dried sample of Sir Alexander Fleming’s original mold that led to his discovery of penicillin has been sequenced for the first time.Continue ReadingCategory: … Continue reading Original penicillin mold genome sequenced for the first time
The International Space Station (ISS) made an emergency course correction to move it out of the path of a then-unidentified piece of space debris earlier this week. The Russian Progress 75 cargo ship fired its thrusters for 150 seconds in order to make… Continue reading The ISS changes course to dodge space debris on short notice
NASA has awarded a contract to Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) and its spinoff Astrobotic to complete development and build an autonomous Moon rover as a technology demonstrator and water prospector. Slated to launch on Dec. 7, 2022, the robotic explo… Continue reading MoonRanger robotic rover will seek out water on the Moon
NASA has released an updated outline of its Artemis program to return US astronauts to the Moon and set up a permanent human presence there, beginning with the landing of the first woman and the next man on the Moon in 2024.Continue ReadingCategory: Sp… Continue reading NASA updates Artemis Plan for returning astronauts to the Moon in 2024