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A year after it was selected to supply the first private module for the International Space Station (ISS), Axiom Space has announced the crew for the first-ever all private crewed orbital space mission. Still awaiting legal clearance and the green ligh… Continue reading Axiom Space announces crew for first all-private orbital mission
High-end watchmaker MB&F has released a limited edition of its Horological Machine No. 9 (HM9) wristwatch called the “Sapphire Vision, which sets the movement inside a specially engineered, transparent, three-dimensional sapphire and precious metal cas… Continue reading HM9 Sapphire Vision watch puts intricate movement in full view
In a development that could help slow the proliferation of space junk, the orbit of a communications satellite has for the first time been altered using solid iodine as a propellant. The Beihangkonshi-1 smallsat made the maneuver earlier this month usi… Continue reading Satellite fires up iodine-fueled ion thruster for the first time
Lockheed Martin and Boeing have taken the wraps off the Defiant X advanced military helicopter being developed for the US Army’s Future Long-Range Assault Aircraft (FLRAA) competition. Billed as the fastest, most maneuverable, and most survivable assau… Continue reading Lockheed Martin and Boeing debut Defiant X advanced assault helicopter
Exactly one hundred years ago, a play premiered that introduced a significant new word to the world – robot. When the first production of Karel Čapek’s R.U.R. opened on January 25, 1921, at the National Theater in what is now the Czech Republic, it not… Continue reading Robots got their name 100 years ago today
SpaceX’s latest orbital mission has set a new record for the most spacecraft launched by a single rocket at one time. On January 24, 2021 at 10:00 am EST, the Transporter-1 mission lifted off atop a Falcon 9 booster from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape… Continue reading SpaceX puts record 143 satellites in orbit in one launch
Researchers at the Paris Observatory’s Institute of Celestial Mechanics and Ephemeris Calculation have found that the unusual tilt of Saturn’s axis is due to the periodic gravitational pull of its moons over the last billion years.Continue ReadingCateg… Continue reading Saturn’s moons explain the planet’s tilt and why it’s increasing
A pair of researchers at McMaster University’s School of Biomedical Engineering have developed a way of cultivating meat that not only does away with the animal, but also allows for greater control over the texture and taste of the end product.Continue… Continue reading Stacking sheets of tissue builds better lab-grown meat
A pair of researchers at McMaster University’s School of Biomedical Engineering have developed a way of cultivating meat that not only does away with the animal, but also allows for greater control over the texture and taste of the end product.Continue… Continue reading Stacking sheets of tissue builds better lab-grown meat
It was the second time’s a charm as Virgin Orbit’s airdropped LauncherOne rocket put 10 NASA CubeSat payloads into low-Earth orbit on the second attempt in less than eight months under the space agency’s Launch Services Program (LSP).Continue ReadingCa… Continue reading Virgin Orbit’s LauncherOne reaches orbit on second attempt