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Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 Hits New Altitude Record as Supersonic Travel Nears Reality (Image Credit: Gizmodo-com) Boom Supersonic’s demonstrator aircraft completed its eighth flight earlier this month, setting a new record for altitude and matching its top speed as it prepares to go supersonic by the end of the year. The flight is […]
The dark energy pushing our universe apart may not be what it seems, scientists say (Image Credit: Phys.org) This Dec. 14, 2023 image made available by NOIRLab shows meteors from the Geminid meteor shower streaking across the sky above the Nicholas U. Mayall Telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory (KPNO), a Program […]
Watch Rocket Lab launch 5 French ‘Internet of Things’ satellites Nov. 24 (Image Credit: Space.com) Rocket Lab plans to launch five “Internet of Things” (IoT) satellites to orbit on Sunday night (Nov. 24), and you can watch the action live. An Electron launcher carrying five spacecraft for the French company Kinéis is […]
Watch Rocket Lab launch 5 French ‘Internet of Things’ satellites tonight (Image Credit: Space.com) Rocket Lab plans to launch five “Internet of Things” (IoT) satellites to orbit tonight (Nov. 23), and you can watch the action live. An Electron launcher carrying five spacecraft for the French company Kinéis is scheduled to lift […]
NASA awards $11.5 million to help design the aircraft of tomorrow (Image Credit: Space.com) NASA is looking to develop a new generation of low-emission commercial aircraft that will offer a more efficient and sustainable mode of travel. The space agency has commissioned five new design studies as part of its Advanced Aircraft […]
Rare Asteroid Sample Contaminated by Microorganisms Despite Scientists’ Best Efforts (Image Credit: Gizmodo-com) Researchers found evidence of microbial life in what should have been a pristine sample of an asteroid, a frustrating sign that avoiding earthly contamination may be harder than we thought. A team from Imperial College London discovered a population […]
NASA spotted a very young planet. It could become a super-Earth. (Image Credit: Mashable) Astronomers got lucky. NASA has confirmed over 5,780 worlds beyond our solar system, called exoplanets. But it’s rare to detect a juvenile, still-maturing planet, because they inhabit chaotic systems that are flush with obscuring dust and gas. By […]
SpaceX chalks up 82nd Space Coast launch of the year (Image Credit: Phys.org) Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain SpaceX sent up another rocket on Nov 21 to mark the 82nd launch of the year on the Space Coast. A Falcon 9 lifted off at 11:07 a.m. from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Space […]
Proba-3 will use laser for millimeter precision in space (Image Credit: Phys.org) Credit: ESA – M. Pédoussaut / J. Versluys ESA’s double-spacecraft precision formation flying mission, Proba-3, is due to be launched from India on 4 December. The spacecraft pair will employ a set of positioning technologies to keep formation in space […]
