[ad_1] The first test flights of this orbital vessel could start as soon as October, with the initial experiment reaching about 63,000 feet. Subsequent tests will up the velocity and, eventually, reach orbit. Commercial flights aren’t expected to start until 2021, but Starship is poised to be the backbone of SpaceX’s business soon after, handling […]
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Initial Creative Emmy winners include Apple, Netflix and NASA
[ad_1] Other victors were decidedly less conventional. Apple’s take on Carpool Karaoke won as the best short form variety series, while Google’s VR short film Age of Sail picked up three awards for color and design. The Outstanding Innovation in Interactive Media award was split evenly between the AI-themed Twitch series Artificial and the Oculus […]
Scientists discover water vapor on an exoplanet with a rocky core
[ad_1] A team at the Institute for Research on Exoplanets at the Université de Montréal published their findings yesterday. Led by Björn Benneke, their work (which has yet to be peer reviewed) points to the possibility that K2-18 b is habitable thanks to the presence of water and hydrogen, as well as the exoplanet’s location […]
India found its missing Vikram lunar lander
[ad_1] The Moon mission, Chandrayaan-2, had been going well up until the lander was about 1.2 miles above the surface. It’s still not certain what caused the failure. The discovery is a sad moment for India, which would have been just the fourth country to land a spacecraft on the Moon. However, it also underscores […]
Preparing for Apple’s 2019 iPhone event
[ad_1] September 10th, 1PM ET — don’t be late.What to expect at Apple’s iPhone event Apple is gearing up to show off a handful of updated models at 1 PM Eastern/10AM Pacific on September 10th, but they’re far from the only things the company plans to introduce. Before we jump on a plane and set […]
India’s Vikram lunar lander lost contact during its descent
[ad_1] Today India attempted to become only the fourth nation to successfully soft-land on the surface of the Moon. That mission appears to have failed, when the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) lost contact with its Vikram lander at an altitude of 2.1km above the lunar surface. The space agency has said only that it […]
The first ever black hole image lands scientists $3 million prize
[ad_1] The prize will be split between the 347 scientists that worked on the ground-breaking project, which produced the very first image of a black hole. The data behind the image — which could confirm or at least pose significant questions about our understanding of the universe — was equivalent to the number of selfies […]
The Morning After: LG’s 88-inch 8K OLED
[ad_1] ‘One of the best laptops you can get.’Dell XPS 15 review (2019) Our $2,649 review unit showed up with an OLED screen, eight-core Intel Core i9 CPU and an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 graphics card inside. Add in 32GB of RAM and a 1TB SSD and, of course, it blazed through any tasks Cherlynn […]
NASA and ESA will team up to deflect Earth-bound asteroids
[ad_1] NASA will provide the collider, the Double Asteroid Impact Test (DART). It should launch in summer 2021 and will smack into the smaller of the two Didymos asteroids at about 14,764MPH. An Italian cubesat, LICIACube, will study the moment of impact. After that, the ESA will launch a Hera probe in October 2024 to […]
SpaceX wouldn’t move its satellite despite European collision warning
[ad_1] ESA experts calculated there was a 1 in 1,000 chance of a collision between the two satellites occurring, as reported by Forbes. That’s a slim chance, but it was enough for the ESA to decide to intervene. “We informed SpaceX, who replied and said that they do not plan to take action,” Holger Krag, […]