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Aerospace startup Hermeus recently unveiled a full-size, partly-functional mock-up of its highly-streamlined, delta-winged Quarterhorse hypersonic aircraft before an invited audience of investors, military and government officials, and others.Continue … Continue reading Quarterhorse hypersonic mock-up goes public with live engine fire
Thanks to a pilot project by Heinz and a team of researchers led by Andrew Palmer at the Florida Institute of Technology, when astronauts set up outposts on Mars they may be able to make their own ketchup using locally grown tomatoes.Continue ReadingCa… Continue reading Heinz serves up ketchup made from “Martian” tomatoes
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson announced today in a press conference that the next US crewed Moon landing mission has been pushed back to 2025. The setback is due to COVID-19, lawsuits, and budget shortfalls, but the agency remains committed to a plan … Continue reading NASA pushes back plans for crewed lunar landing to 2025
Sandia National Laboratories is developing an avocado-sized vacuum chamber made out of titanium and sapphire that could one day use quantum mechanical sensors to provide GPS-grade navigation without the need for satellites.Continue ReadingCategory: Tec… Continue reading “Titanium avocado” could provide GPS-grade navigation sans satellites
If you were yearning to own a hypersonic missile, you’ve just missed your chance. In a live online sale on November 6, Auction Team Breker offered one of the four remaining CIAM-NASA Hypersonic Flying Laboratory (HFL) “Kholod” hypersonic test bed missi… Continue reading Cold War Russian hypersonic test missile sold at auction
Boeing’s Loyal Wingman prototype combat drone reached a new milestone as two of the autonomous aircraft took to the skies recently in separate flights over the Woomera Range Complex in Australia. This marks the first time that the second drone has flow… Continue reading Second Loyal Wingman combat drone takes to the air for the first time
Flippy the burger-flipping robot has received an upgrade as Miso Robotics rolls out its Flippy 2 model. Taking on board feedback from a pilot program with the White Castle hamburger chain that started in Chicago in September 2020, the new cybernetic ch… Continue reading Flippy 2 kitchen robot can singlehandedly work a fast food fry station
Amazon announced today that it is going ahead with Project Kuiper, its rival to SpaceX’s Starlink orbital global internet service, by launching a pair of prototype satellites into low-Earth orbit next year. Operating under an experimental license from … Continue reading Amazon to launch prototype satellites for global internet service
In a step closer to flight tests, the US Navy has conducted a successful live-fire ground test of the First Stage Solid Rocket Motor (SRM) that will be used in the American offensive hypersonic missile system. The October 28, 2021 test at Promontory, U… Continue reading US Navy conducts live-fire ground test of hypersonic missile motor
A team of scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology have come up with a concept that would see bacteria shipped to Mars produce rocket fuel and liquid oxygen from atmospheric CO2 to power a spacecraft on its return journey to Earth.Continue Rea… Continue reading Microbes could be used to make rocket fuel on Mars