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A US Air Force jet has became the first military aircraft to have an artificial intelligence algorithm serve as the co-pilot. On December 15, 2020, a U-2 Dragon Lady high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft attached to the 9th Reconnaissance Wing and pilo… Continue reading Artificial intelligence co-pilots military jet for the first time
The giant iceberg A-68a is likely to ground itself in the shallows of South Georgia island, so a scientific expedition is getting ready to visit the site to determine the impact of the event on the local ecology using underwater glider robots.Continue … Continue reading Science mission to head to South Georgia to assess giant iceberg impact
The European Space Agency has selected Thales Alenia Space in the UK to lead a study for the planned mission to “ambush” a passing comet. Called Comet Interceptor, this cosmic brigand represents a new strategy for exploring comets fresh from the Oort c… Continue reading Mission to “ambush” pristine comet enters new study phase
NuScale Power has released the results of a new evaluation that indicates that a single small nuclear NuScale Power Module (NPM) could economically produce almost 50 tonnes of hydrogen fuel per day. The study, originally conducted by the Idaho National… Continue reading Modular nuclear reactors promise cost-competitive hydrogen production
DARPA has revealed that attempted air-recovery of three X-61A Gremlins missed success by just inches during recent tests over Dugway Proving Ground, Utah. Nine attempts to capture the drones as they flew behind a C-130 transport plane failed, and they … Continue reading DARPA’s X-61A Gremlin drone misses airborne retrieval by inches
A very rare piece of computer history is up for grabs at RR Auctions. The early three-button “X-Y” mouse, designed by computer pioneer Douglas Engelbart, is the direct ancestor of today’s ubiquitous computer mouse and was made famous when it was first … Continue reading Ground-breaking Engelbart 3-button computer mouse goes to auction
President Emmanuel Macron has announced that France will be replacing the aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle with a nuclear-powered carrier in 2038. While on a visit to the French nuclear reactor company, Framatome, in Le Creusot, he said the decision … Continue reading Macron says France’s next aircraft carrier will be nuclear-powered
Boeing has successfully carried out flight tests involving five high-performance, pilotless “surrogate jets” that operated as a team without the intervention of a human supervisor. The tests at the Queensland Flight Test Range in Cloncurry, Australia d… Continue reading Boeing tests squadron of 5 autonomous mini-jets working as a team
Northrop Grumman has carried out successful ground tests of a Solid Fuel RamJet (SFRJ) tactical engine that the company is developing for the US Army. Part of the Army’s XM1155 Extended-Range Artillery Projectile (ERAP) program, the engine is designed … Continue reading Tests of solid fuel ramjet engine to extend artillery range over 100 km
After a voyage of more than a year, the capsule carrying samples of the asteroid Ryugu collected by Japan’s Hayabusa2 deep-space probe has returned to Earth and has been recovered. On December 6 at 2:28 am JST, the re-entry capsule blazed a fiery path … Continue reading Hayabusa2 returns asteroid samples to Earth after fiery reentry