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DARPA has chosen two radically different designs from teams led by General Atomics and Aurora Flight Systems for development of the Liberty Lifter Seaplane Wing-in-Ground Effect full-scale seaborne strategic and tactical heavy lift demonstrator.Continu… Continue reading DARPA selects competitors for its Liberty Lifter seaplane project
A DARPA-led project has successfully completed the final test of Lockheed Martin’s Hypersonic Air-breathing Weapon Concept (HAWC) missile. Powered by an Aerojet Rocketdyne scramjet, the craft reached a speed in excess of Mach 5 over a course of 300 nm … Continue reading DARPA nails latest US hypersonic missile test flight
The United States, Britain, and Germany have agreed to supply Ukraine with main battle Tanks to aid its resistance to Russia’s invasion. What are these tanks, will they turn the tide of the war, and in which direction? New Atlas takes a look.Continue R… Continue reading Ukraine gets NATO main battle tanks. Will it change the tide of the war?
NASA and DARPA have agreed to develop and test a nuclear rocket engine in space as soon as 2027. Using a nuclear reactor as its power source, it would outperform chemical rockets and greatly reduce the time for the first crewed Mars mission.Continue Re… Continue reading DARPA and NASA plan orbital nuclear rocket test
The US Army has awarded Eprius a contract worth US$66.1 million to deliver prototypes of a new microwave weapon called Leonidas that is capable of bringing down entire swarms of enemy drones in a single burst, while leaving friendly aircraft intact.Con… Continue reading US Army awards contract for microwave weapon to counter drone swarms
In a move that could see a new generation of deep-space CubeSats, NASA has greenlighted a project by the Rochester Institute of Technology to develop a nuclear power source that is a tenth the size of those in current use for planetary missions.Continu… Continue reading Miniature nuclear generators could power deep-space CubeSats
In a remarkable shift in policy, the United States government announced on December 21, 2022 that it would supply Ukraine with the Patriot Missile System to aid in its fight against Russia. On January 5, Germany announced that it was sending a Patriot … Continue reading Ukraine to get Patriot missiles. Is this a game changer?
The mystery of why the first orbital mission launched from the UK fell into the sea on January 9 had some light shed on it today as Virgin Orbital announced that telemetry indicated that the second stage engine shut down prematurely.Continue ReadingCat… Continue reading Second stage engine malfunction blamed for UK space launch failure
Britain’s attempt to launch its first orbital rocket in over half a century and the first from UK soil failed today as the second stage of the mission’s Virgin Orbit rocket malfunctioned due to an undisclosed problem.Continue ReadingCategory: Space, Sc… Continue reading First space mission launched from British soil fails to reach orbit
It was another bumper year for breakthroughs, records, and firsts for science, in fields ranging from conception to death, with some freak waves and prehistoric fish hearts thrown in for good measure. New Atlas looks back at the year in science for 202… Continue reading The year in science 2022