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After years of delays and mishaps, Boeing is taking another shot at launching its Starliner spacecraft with a crew aboard despite a leaky helium valve. Here’s how to watch the event, which is scheduled for 12:25 pm EDT on June 1.Continue ReadingCategor… Continue reading Boeing to roll the dice on a leaky Starliner June 1: Here’s how to watch
Researchers have found a surprisingly simple way to build cryogenic coolers that reach near-absolute zero up to 3.5 times faster, or using about 71% less energy, than current gear. That’s big news for anything requiring seriously low temperatures.Conti… Continue reading Cryo-cooling breakthrough slashes the energy cost of serious cold by 71%
Commercial operations on the Moon won’t just be round-the-clock but round-the-calendar as ispace, inc. and the University of Leicester partner to develop nuclear heaters to allow future landers and rovers to survive the freezing lunar night.Continue Re… Continue reading New nuclear heaters use americium-241 to stop spacecraft freezing
An ancient mystery may have been solved after researchers, with the help of 13 Hellenic Marines, proved that a unique 3,500-year-old suit of Greek armor wasn’t necessarily just for show, but could have been used for combat at the time of the Trojan War… Continue reading Greek Marines don 3,500-year-old armor to prove it’s combat-capable
The Q1 desktop microcomputer, the world’s first microcomputer that was uncovered in storage boxes by accident by cleaners at Kingston University in London, is going on the auction block at Heritage Auctions, along with a later version and a printer.Con… Continue reading World’s first microcomputer is up for auction right now
Aurora Flight Sciences has revealed its latest concept for a low-drag, fan-in-blended-wing body design for DARPA’s Speed and Runway Independent Technologies (SPRINT) program aimed at producing a high-speed VTOL aircraft for Special Forces missions.Cont… Continue reading DARPA’s new high-speed, blended-wing VTOL X-plane
Although snapshots of the B-21 Raider nuclear bomber in flight have been taken previously by the public in the vicinity of Edwards Air Force Base in California, these weren’t with permission. Now the United States Air Force has released the first offic… Continue reading US Air Force releases first official pics of B-21 bomber in flight
Boeing’s ill-fated Starliner spacecraft has suffered another major setback as NASA announced today that its first crewed launch has been postponed indefinitely. This comes after four launch dates were scrubbed in less than three weeks due to technical … Continue reading Boeing scrubs Starliner launch indefinitely
A luxury superyacht is the testbed for green hydrogen technology as the ship, formally known as Project 821, is put in the water at Feadship’s Amsterdam base. It’s the largest motor yacht ever launched in the Netherlands.Continue ReadingCategory: Energ… Continue reading World’s first superyacht to run on hydrogen
Hermeus has stolen another quick march on its way to building a hypersonic aircraft as it begins testing its proprietary precooler on a Pratt & Whitney F100 jet engine that will be installed in the company’s Quarterhorse Mk 2 prototype.Continue Reading… Continue reading Video: Hermeus hypersonic aircraft gathers speed with precooler test