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The first paying seat on Blue Origin’s initial New Shepard passenger flight into space has sold at auction for an eye-watering US$28 million. The telephone auction of qualified bidders was conducted on June 12 by RR Auction in Boston, Massachusetts and… Continue reading First passenger seat on Blue Origin’s New Shepard sells for $28 million
ESA has selected EnVision as its next Venus orbiter. Scheduled to launch atop an Ariane 6 rocket between 2031 and 2033, the robotic deep-space probe will carry out a comprehensive survey of Earth’s sibling planet to learn why the two turned out so very… Continue reading ESA selects EnVision orbiter to uncover mysteries of Venus
DARPA’s Mobile Force Protection (MFP) program has developed a system designed to counter unauthorized drone intrusions over military installations or operations. Because they may need to be used over populated areas, the program sought a non-explosive … Continue reading DARPA shoots streamers to counter drone swarms in urban areas
Saab and Varjo Technologies are developing a new low-cost, high-resolution mixed-reality (XR) technology for flight simulators to train pilots of the Saab Gripen E/F multi-role fighter aircraft. Called Bionic Display, it cuts the computing power requir… Continue reading Bionic Display cuts computing power for flight simulator mixed reality
NASA’s Juno deep-space probe has sent back the first close-up images of Jupiter’s largest moon, Ganymede, to be captured in two decades. Snapped during Juno’s flyby of the giant moon on June 7, the images were taken by the spacecraft’s JunoCam visible-… Continue reading Juno probe snaps first close-up images of Ganymede in over 20 years
Jeff Bezos has announced that he and his brother Mark will be aboard the first passenger-carrying Blue Origin flight on July 20, joining the winner of the continuing auction for the first paid seat, which now stands at US$2.8 million. If all runs to pl… Continue reading Jeff Bezos and his brother to be on first Blue Origin passenger flight
The United States Air Force and United States Space Force are looking at rockets as a way to send supplies to inaccessible war zones and disaster areas. Led by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), Rocket Cargo Vanguard will look at ways that comme… Continue reading US Air Force and Space Force look to rockets to transport supplies
With the aid of a Dutch De Zeven Provincien-class frigate, the US Navy destroyer USS Paul Ignatius (DDG 117) has used two Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) Blk IA interceptors to destroy ballistic missiles while they were still in space during the Formidable S… Continue reading US Navy intercepts ballistic missiles with the aid of a Dutch frigate
Blue Abyss Ltd. is building the world’s largest and deepest indoor pool in Cornwall. Set to hold 1.5 million ft3 (42,000 m3) of water or, to use the standard British unit, 168 million cups of tea. It will be used for testing advanced undersea robotics, as well as acting as the world’s first commercial astronaut training facility.
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The Royal Navy has used artificial intelligence to help counter live-fire supersonic missile attacks in sea trials for the first time. Part of the Formidable Shield NATO exercise involving 10 nations, 15 ships, dozens of aircraft, and about 3,300 perso… Continue reading Royal Navy pits AI systems against live supersonic missiles