Credit: Thomas Pesquet / ESANASA has "holoported" somebody to the International Space Station for the first time, demonstrating a new method for astronauts and people on Earth to interact with one another.Holoportation 101Holoportation is the creation of Microsoft research. While the name is one portmanteau of "hologram" and "teleportation," that does not quite explain...
NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket with the Orion spacecraft aboard is seen atop a mobile launcher at Launch Pad 39B, Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2022, after being rolled out to the launch pad at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Credit: NASA/Joel KowskyAfter several setbacks, NASA is slowly scheduling its Artemis I mission's launch dates of September 23rd...
Voyager’s high-gain antenna, seen at the center of this illustration of the NASA spacecraft, is one component controlled by the attitude articulation and control system (AACS). Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech.Engineers have repaired a concern affecting information from NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft. Back this year, the probe's attitude articulation and control system (AACS), that keeps Voyager 1's antenna...
lookup, it's okayA recent Phys.org report might have been the story of 2021's "Don't Look Up," the Netflix series about an asteroid that threatens to strike Earth. Fortunately, it was merely a close call.The website's initial observations of an asteroid named 2022 AE1 presented a possible impact with Earth on July of 2023. However, the risk...
SpaceX's Starship carrying out test flight maneuvers. Credit: SpaceXAccording to a statement from Politico, Elon Musk recently provided the first big update on SpaceX's Mars-bound rocket, Starship, and its competitors are monitoring on with "a mix of admiration and fright." At his latest Starship presentation, SpaceX CEO Musk emphasized the truth that Starship would...
Laser-thermal propelled spacecraft in Earth orbit awaiting its departure. Credit: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International LicenseCould a laser send a spacecraft to Mars?That is a proposed mission from a group at McGill University, made to fulfill a solicitation from NASA. The laser, a 10-meter vast array in the world, would certainly heat up...
Credit: Volatus AerospaceThe global supply chain is presently experiencing all kinds of glitches, from material scarcities to labor scarcities and beyond. Moving goods from one point to another has become much more expensive, and there is no quick fix in sight. However, a San Diego-based start-up plans to meet some of the demand for air...
Researchers have carried out experiments on a parabolic flight to examine the efficiency of oxygen-evolving electrolysis on the Moon and Mars.Researchers Bethany Lomax and Gunter Just conducting experiments on a parabolic flight. Credit: Manchester UniversityThe discovery from the Universities of Manchester and Glasgow is stated to supply beneficial insights into establishing human habitats far...
A SpaceX Cargo Dragon spacecraft docked to the International Space Station. Credit: NASAA retired microscope and samples from research studies on colloids and cellular signaling are among the load returning from the International Space Station aboard the 24th SpaceX commercial resupply services mission. The Dragon craft, which reached the station on December 22, 2021,...
A conceptual hypersonic aircraft is pictured. Background image credit: NASA. Aircraft and composite image credit: Daniel Rosato, UCF.The UCF-developed propulsion system might allow for flight To reach speeds of Mach 6 to 17 (beyond 7,403 to 20,921 kilometers per hour) and have air and space travel applications.University of Central Florida scientists are improving their...
