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Fifty years ago, two men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the surface of the Moon. That’s a very simple sentence to write, but getting to grips with what is almost certainly one of the top five events in the whole of human history – … Continue reading Apollo 11: Fifty years since that One Small Step
The NASA-led Gateway deep-space station is still years away from the launch of its first component, but NASA and ESA’s Operations Centre (ESOC) are zeroing in on the orbit it will travel in cis-lunar space. Called a Near-Rectilinear Halo Orbi… Continue reading Halo orbit selected for Gateway space station
France has launched the first of its six next-generation nuclear attack submarines in a ceremony in Cherbourg. On July 12, 2019, President of the French Republic Emmanuel Macron presided over the unveiling of SNA Suffren before a crowd of con… Continue reading France launches its first Barracuda class nuclear attack submarine
According to a recent Newcastle University study, if you want to build a replica of Stonehenge, get some lard – lots of it. By studying neolithic pottery from a site near the ancient stone circle, archaeologists suggest that the traces of pig… Continue reading How do you build Stonehenge? Add lard
Boeing announced today that the first of the RAF’s new maritime patrol aircraft has made its maiden flight in the skies over Renton, Washington. Attended by British Ministry of Defence (MoD) and Royal Air Force personnel as well as Boeing P-8 program leaders, the twin-engine P-8A Poseidon jet took off at 10:00 am on July 12 for a 90-minute test flight that will be followed by the installation of military systems.
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In a move that may one day lead to satellites that can build other satellites, NASA has agreed to a US$73.7 million contract with Made in Space of Mountain View, California to launch a demonstrator spacecraft that will manufacture and assembl… Continue reading NASA funds demonstrator mission to print and assemble spacecraft in orbit
For this year’s Monegasque Association against Muscular Dystrophy annual Only Watch charity auction, Louis Moinet has come up with something completely different – a wristwatch with a completely independent chronograph function. The second consecutive Moinet Only Watch entry for Louis Moinet, the 2019 Memoris Only watch’s separate movements means that the chronograph’s 147 components are displayed front and center on the dial side.
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One of the original designers of a pioneering Apollo Moon experiment is leading an effort to create an upgraded version for future lunar landing missions. A team under professor emeritus at the University of Maryland (UMD), Doug Currie are de… Continue reading NASA green lights upgrade of Apollo era lunar laser experiment
To develop a new artificial muscle for robots MIT researchers are taking inspiration from an unlikely source – the cucumber. It’s not the fruit of the plant that’s good for sandwiches and salads that the engineers are interested in, but the t… Continue reading MIT team draws on cucumbers to develop surprisingly strong artificial muscles
We’ve seen robots that can walk, trot, run, and even do backflips, but now a student team is working on a rover robot prototype that hops about like a springbok. Designed and built by students from ETH Zurich and ZHAW Zurich, the SpaceBok bei… Continue reading SpaceBok robot designed to bound around in low-gravity environments