Starship poised on the launchpad, prepared for its second test. Credit: SpaceX. The success of NASA's Artemis program is paramount, with the current contract involving SpaceX's Starship to transport astronauts for the Artemis III and Artemis IV lunar missions. There is no alternative means for astronauts to reach the Moon, although NASA recently opened the...
Credit: CNBC Starlink, the satellite internet venture owned by SpaceX, has silently introduced its Direct Cell service on its official website, heralding a breakthrough in connectivity for LTE phones under open skies. This innovative service requires no modifications to existing phone hardware, firmware, or special applications. Future Expansion of Services According to the website, Starlink has a...
Artist impression of the Euclid mission in space. The spacecraft is white and gold and consists of three main elements: a flat sunshield, a large cylinder where the light from space will enter, and a 'boxy' bottom containing the instruments. The spacecraft is shown half in the shadow, because the sunshield will always be...
SpaceX's Starship. Credit: SpaceX Unless you have been extremely busy, you must have heard of SpaceX's Starship fully assembled test flight. Despite the fact that the test did not go as planned, there are good lessons to take from it. It is important to notice that such an event is still a landmark for humanity,...
Earth as seen by the Danuri orbiter. Credit: KARI. South Korea's first-ever lunar orbiter Danuri has sent out black-and-white pictures of the Moon's surface and Earth, the national space center claimed Tuesday. Danuri-- a portmanteau of the Korean words for "Moon" and "enjoy"-- was released on a SpaceX rocket from the USA in August 2022 and went...
Soyuz MS-22 spacecraft carrying the crew of Russian cosmonauts launched September, 2022. (NataliaKolesnikova/ AFP) Russia stated Wednesday that it will send an empty spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS) coming month to bring home 3 astronauts whose planned return vehicle was damaged by a strike from a small meteoroid. The Russian space company, Roscosmos, made the...
Primal dengue mosquito vector, Aedes aegypti, which have shown extremely high level of insecticide resistance in Asia due to concomitant mutations. Credit: Shinji Kasai Mosquitoes extremely resistant to common insecticides A group of scientists affiliated with many institutions in Japan, working with associates from Vietnam, Cambodia, Singapore, Taiwan, Indonesia, and Ghana, has discovered proof of mosquitoes...
An intuitive illustration of our theorem. Assume the state we consider has dimension d and is coupled with an environment with dimension k. We use three balls to represent the states, whereas the outer one contains all the states. Quantum entanglement Quantum entanglement is a process through which 2 particles become entangled and remain linked...
(MoMo Productions/DigitalVision/Getty Images) Putting a screen in front of a kid is a tried and trusted form of keeping them entertained and calm-- and it works very well for grownups, too-- however as a constant calming method, it might have its disadvantages, according to a recent research. Research involving the screen and children The team found that...
A donut-shaped magnetic confinement device called a tokamak is one of the leading designs for a working fusion power generator, with many such experiments running worldwide. Credit: Christopher Roux, EUROfusion Consortium, CC BY Our society faces the grand difficulty of offering sustainable, secure, and affordable forms of generating energy while trying to reduce CO2 emissions to net...
