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NASA has put a key component of its Orion deep-space probe through its paces, conducting a static firing of the spacecraft’s service module’s main engine at the space agency’s White Sands Test Facility near Las Cruces in New Mexico. The purpo… Continue reading NASA test fires Orion service module engine
The German Aerospace Center (DLR) is developing a new type of gyrocopter that gets rid of the pilot to provide more cargo space. The focus of the Automated Low Altitude Air Delivery (ALAADy) system, the ALAADy Demonstrator unmanned gyrocopter… Continue reading DLR develops unmanned gyrocopters to autonomously cart heavier cargo
Coastal wastewater treatment plants may be a nasty but necessary way to handle the effluent from our cities, but a new study by Stanford University indicates that they could also double as power plants to make them energy independent and carb… Continue reading "Blue power" could make wastewater plants energy-independent
Stand by to start space mining – not on an asteroid, but aboard the International Space Station (ISS). Delivered to the station by an unmanned Dragon cargo ship on July 27, an experimental mining kit developed by a team led by the University … Continue reading ISS receives prototype bacteria-based space mining kit
A new electronic tag developed by ESA and other partners has been attached to four tiger sharks in the Caribbean in a test of a new satellite-connected fish tracking system. Described by the space agency as cheaper and more animal friendly, t… Continue reading Satellite-connected tags keep more detailed tabs on tiger sharks for longer
NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is halfway through its two-year primary mission and has completed its survey of the southern sky in its search for extrasolar planets. According to the space agency, the unmanned telescope h… Continue reading TESS completes survey of southern sky, marking halfway mark of mission
NASA’s Mars 2020 rover got a bit of a workout recently as it flexed its mechanical muscles. Captured in a time-lapse video, the 7-ft (2.1 m) robotic arm with its 88-lb (40-kg) “hand” did a bit of curling as space agency engineers guided it fr… Continue reading Mars 2020 rover flexes its arm ahead of 2020 launch
NASA has decided to put a major component of the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket through a “Green Run” in the runup to the scheduled 2021 launch of the Artemis 1 lunar mission. The July 25 announcement by space agency Administrator Jim Bride… Continue reading NASA commits SLS booster rocket to "Green Run" static testing
Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories led by computational neuroscientist Frances Chance are looking to the common dragonfly for clues to develop smaller, more efficient missile defenses. By replicating the predatory insect’s brain in a… Continue reading Dragonfly brains could make missile defenses faster and more accurate
France has announced it will expand its military space assets and defend them using systems that may include anti-satellite lasers. In a speech before the Commandement de Défense Aérienne et des Opérations Aériennes (Command of air defense and air operations, CDAOA) at Air Base 942 Lyon Mont-Verdun, the Minister of the Armed Forces, Florence Parly said that the government will spend an additional €700 million (US$780 million) by 2025 to produce new surveillance satellites with self-defense capabilities.
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