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NASA has announced the first three contracts for unmanned lunar landing missions as part of the Artemis program that will see US astronauts returning to the Moon by 2024. Under the space agency’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS), the … Continue reading NASA reveals first three commercial Moon landing contracts
As part of a celebration of Victorian cinema, the British Film Institute (BFI) and the Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) have released the oldest known moving picture of a solar eclipse. Recently restored to 4K quality by conservation experts … Continue reading First moving picture of a total solar eclipse restored to 4K quality
MIT has developed an inexpensive sensor glove that helps researchers put together massive databases that allow an artificial intelligence algorithm to figure out how humans can identify objects by touch. Called the Scalable TActile Glove (STA… Continue reading Low-cost sensor glove could lead to robots that identify objects by touch
An international team of astronomers led by the University of Warwick has found a “forbidden” planet orbiting the “Neptunian Desert” of another star. Located 920 light years from Earth, exoplanet NGTS-4b is 20 percent smaller than Neptune, yet it retains an atmosphere despite being close enough to circle its star once every 1.3 days and having a surface temperature of 1,000° C (1,800° F).
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Continue Reading Astronomers discover oddball planet that shouldn’t be where it is
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Continue reading Astronomers discover oddball planet that shouldn't be where it is
The National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park, Buckinghamshire, UK is marking the 75th anniversary of the Colossus Mark II computer today with new revelations about its role in winning the Second World War. At a gathering of those who op… Continue reading The National Museum of Computing celebrates the 75th anniversary of Colossus with new revelations
At a recent live-fire exercise in Tapa, Estonia, the latest version of Milrem Robotics and ST Engineering’s ground combat robot showed off its ability to operate under Beyond Line Of Sight (BLVOS) control. In the April tests, the THeMIS Unman… Continue reading Combat robot with over-the-horizon control put through its paces in live-fire exercise
By combining moondust and lasers, Laser Zentrum Hannover (LZH) and the Institute of Space Systems (IRAS) of the Technical University of Braunschweig are experimenting with ways to use 3D printing to build lunar colonies. Slated to fly in 2021… Continue reading Moonrise to bring 3D laser printing to the lunar surface
MIT is working on a new way for self-driving cars to get around in unfamiliar areas by imitating the way human drivers navigate. Called Variational End-to-End Navigation and Localization, it uses basic maps and video cameras to analyze and na… Continue reading MIT is teaching cars to navigate using a simple map and visual data, just like humans
The Royal Air Force (RAF) has begun testing the latest version of the BriteCloud missile decoy on its Typhoon fighter aircraft. At the Typhoon Ministerial Meeting in Germany, British Defence minister Stuart Andrew revealed that the disposable… Continue reading RAF tests BriteCloud missile decoys on Typhoon fighters
At NASA’s White Sands Test Facility in New Mexico, Boeing recently completed live-fire tests of the complex array of thrusters that will be used to guide the seven-passenger spacecraft in orbit and provide propulsion for the emergency abort s… Continue reading Boeing CST-100 Starliner completes hot-fire thruster tests