Collaborate Disseminate
The world’s largest prime number has been discovered, but we can’t show it because it’s so large it would take up 21 standard-sized novels to turn into text. Called M136279841, its shorthand version is 2136,279,841-1. That comes to 41,024,320 digits.Co… Continue reading World’s largest prime number discovered – and it’s a doozy
In a major jump into the era of eVTOL air taxis and multicopter cargo drones, the US FAA has issued new regulations that introduce the first new aircraft category, called “power-lift” aircraft, since modern helicopters were introduced in the 1940s.Cont… Continue reading FAA creates America’s first new aircraft category since the 1940s
Making a virtue out of necessity, Airbus is joining forces with Toshiba to develop a super-efficient superconducting motor for aircraft that uses the liquid hydrogen that supplies the electricity to cool the propulsion and adjacent systems.Continue Rea… Continue reading Airbus and Toshiba team up to create superconducting aircraft motor
If, like me, you can’t decide which ammunition to load into your chain gun, Northrop Grumman has a variant of its 30 x 113mm M230 Link Fed (M230LF) Dual Feed Bushmaster Chain Gun that can swap from one ammo to another at the flip of a switch.Continue R… Continue reading New M230LF chain gun cannon swaps ammo at the flip of a switch
In one of the strangest partnerships we’ve come across, Axiom Space and Prada (yes, that Prada) have teamed up to produce the space suits NASA astronauts will wear when they return to the Moon as part of the space agency’s Artemis program.Continue Read… Continue reading NASA’s Moon suit gets runway treatment in Prada partnership
Leonardo UK has publicly rolled out its BriteStorm electronic warfare system that allows air forces to penetrate hostile airspace by creating phantom squadrons of fighter planes and missiles to jam and spoof radar defenses.Continue ReadingCategory: Mil… Continue reading Electronic warfare system creates fleets of phantom aircraft
Lockheed Martin’s famous-yet-secret Skunk Works is conducting live flight tests of its Smart Adaptive Flight Control Environment (SAFE) autonomous AI system on the X-62A. The system can be reconfigured in real time while the X-plane is still in the air… Continue reading New system lets X-62A aircraft adjust flight control behavior in the air
The prospect of virtually unlimited clean geothermal power is now substantially brighter. EPFL’s Laboratory of Experimental Rock Mechanics (LEMR) has shown that the semi-plastic, gooey rock at supercritical depths can still be fractured to let water th… Continue reading Ultra-deep fracking for limitless geothermal power is possible: EPFL
In an astonishing bit of space gymnastics, SpaceX has pulled off a true first. It captured a Super Heavy booster at about 7:31 am CT using its own launch tower after delivering a Starship second stage to orbit, followed by a controlled reentry.Continue… Continue reading Watch: SpaceX makes historic booster capture
The US Space Force’s secret-but-not-really-secret spaceplane will carry out a novel maneuver called aerobraking to change its orbit. Instead of using thrusters, the robotic spacecraft will dip into the Earth’s atmosphere to change its trajectory.Contin… Continue reading Not-so-secret spaceplane to use “first-of-a-kind maneuver” to change orbit