Collaborate Disseminate
A piece of space history has sold at auction for US$744,994 after the moondust-besmirched checklist Apollo 17 Commander Gene Cernan wore on his spacesuited wrist during the last crewed lunar mission went on the block at RR Auctions.Continue ReadingCate… Continue reading Checklist from last Apollo lunar mission sells for almost US$800,000
ESA’s historic mission to explore the moons of Jupiter – and orbit the largest moon in the solar system, Ganymede – is on its way today, as its eight-year voyage to the giant planet begins. At 2:14 pm CEST (12:14 GMT), the JUpiter ICy moons Explorer (J… Continue reading Juice mission to Jupiter’s moons lifts off from French Guiana
In order to protect the venerable F-16 fighter from modern electronic threats, Northrop Grumman has put its AN/ALQ-257 Integrated Viper Electronic Warfare Suite (IVEWS) up against a series of “attacks” from the US Air Force Laboratory Intelligence Vali… Continue reading Northrop Grumman tests electronic defense system for F-16 fighters
ESA’s Sentinel-2 satellite is tracking what may be the largest bloom of Sargassum seaweed ever recorded as it drifts toward the US East Coast, threatening to dump millions of tons of rotting vegetation on thousands of miles of beaches.Continue ReadingC… Continue reading Largest ever mass of Sargassum seaweed drifts toward North America
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has captured spectacular new infrared images of the planet Uranus revealing new details of the ice giant’s atmosphere over the north polar region, its ring system, and multiple moons.Continue ReadingCategory: Space… Continue reading James Webb Space Telescope sends back spectacular images of Uranus
Racing to beat the arrival of the Antarctic winter, contractors have completed a major milestone in constructing a new two-story science and operations building at British Antarctic Survey’s (BAS) Rothera Research Station that is designed to withstand … Continue reading Construction of new Antarctic facility races against coming of winter
What do medieval monks and volcanic eruptions have in common? According to a team of researchers led by the University of Geneva, quite a bit because chronicles from the 12th and 13th century are helping volcanologists to precisely date ancient eruptio… Continue reading Medieval monks and lunar eclipses shed light on ancient volcanos
Elbit America recently showed off its X-Sight Helmet Display (HMD) system to customers in Huntsville, Alabama to showcase how the bug-eyed visor can provide helicopter pilots tactical displays and 360-degree super-vision.Continue ReadingCategory: Milit… Continue reading X-Sight HMD brings F-35-like augmented vision to helicopter pilots
NASA has confirmed that on October 9, 2022, our solar system was struck by a gamma-ray burst originating 1,900 light years away that was brighter than any since the beginning of human civilization, in what the space agency calls a “1 in 10,000 year” ev… Continue reading Earth hit by brightest gamma-ray burst on record in 1-in-10,000-year event
MIT’s Improbable Artificial Intelligence Lab has developed a Dexterous Ball Manipulation with a Legged Robot (DribbleBot) that can dribble a soccer ball under real-world conditions similar to those encountered by a human player.Continue ReadingCategory… Continue reading DribbleBot learns to dribble a soccer ball under realistic conditions