[ad_1] Elon Musk’s company originally developed the capsule to take astronauts to space from US soil, and its first manned flight with NASA astronauts is expected to take place between April and June. However, it also intends to expand the spacecraft’s uses to include taking paying astronauts outside our planet. In fact, it signed another […]
Category: Space
Waymo’s fifth-generation Driver can peek around blind spots
[ad_1] Waymo says its fifth-gen Driver is the result of more than a decade of work. It brings together new lidars, cameras and radars, and it’s informed by 20 million self-driven miles on public roads, plus over 10 billion miles of simulation. The system includes a rooftop “360 Lidar,” which provides a bird’s-eye view of […]
SETI@Home ends its crowdsourced search for alien life after 21 years
[ad_1] SETI@Home was born at UC Berkeley and released to the world on May 17th, 1999, using the university’s distributed computing platform, BOINC. Whenever people left their machine on, but weren’t using it, the program would take over and crunch data sent from UC Berkeley. In that way, the system created a giant, internet-connected supercomputer […]
NASA accepts applications for astronauts for the first time in four years
[ad_1] NASA says that you’ll need to be a US citizen with either a master’s degree in a STEM field or an equivalent, such as two years of work toward the doctorate in your field, a medical doctorate or the combination of a completed test pilot school program (finished by June 2021) with a STEM […]
NASA wants students’ help designing tech for the Moon and Mars
[ad_1] The awards will be relatively modest at $15,000 to $50,000, but NASA stressed that this doesn’t necessarily involve tangible products. It can also involve research that fills “knowledge gaps” or reduces risks, for instance. Proposals are due by April 24th. The competition may not lead to a major breakthrough in NASA’s Moon and Mars […]
Boeing didn’t conduct end-to-end tests on Starliner before its failed flight
[ad_1] If you’ll recall, the Starliner crew capsule that was designed to ferry astronauts to the ISS failed to enter the right orbit and dock with the station during its first test flight. Turned out the spacecraft’s onboard computer time was miscalibrated by 11 hours, so it wasn’t able to fire the thrusters that would […]
The Morning After: The Galaxy S20 Ultra comes up short
[ad_1] Camera issues and heft hold back even this powerful device.Galaxy S20 Ultra review: Impressive but impractical If all you care about is getting the best of the best, then the Galaxy S20 Ultra wins on specs with big numbers like 108 megapixels, 100x zoom, 8K video, 120Hz screen and 5G support. However, As Cherlynn […]
NASA’s Psyche asteroid mission will use a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket
[ad_1] Scientists want to visit the unique metal asteroid, because they believe that it could actually be the exposed nickel-iron core of an early planet that broke apart due to violent collisions. The mission’s findings could shed light on the formation of our solar system and offer a window into the “violent history of collisions […]
SpaceX approved to build Starship factory and research hub in LA
[ad_1] SpaceX has pursued the permit for some time after first identifying and subsequently leasing the site back in 2018. As Reuters notes, the company has the option to terminate the permit within 180 days, and indeed, it canceled a similar permit two years ago when it moved the initial phase of the Starship project […]
Virgin Galactic will let people hop to the front of the line for tickets
[ad_1] The company didn’t say exactly when those next tickets would be available or how much they would cost, although CEO Gorge Whitesides had warned that prices might climb substantially from the $250,000 for early customers. Virgin is still a long way from courting everyday people, then. The new batch of tickets is believe to […]