Yesterday, American astronaut Frank Rubio, along with the two cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin, landed after spending a record-breaking amount of time aboard the International Space Station (ISS). The three departed from Earth on September 21, 2022, and spent 371 days in space before returning to Earth. This makes Frank Rubio the American astronaut […]
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Capsule with asteroid samples has landed on Earth
Yesterday, the asteroid hunter OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer) returned to Earth after spending seven years in space. During these years, the spacecraft traveled to the asteroid Bennu, collected a sample from it, and then returned to Earth. In total, OSIRIS-REx traveled about 6.2 million kilometers on its round trip journey […]
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NASA Seeks Help in Decommissioning ISS
In a few years, the International Space Station (ISS) will be retired, and NASA is currently working on a plan for its decommissioning. NASA is seeking assistance from the private space sector, among other things, to develop a spacecraft capable of moving the ISS out of its orbit around Earth so that it can re-enter […]
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AST Mobile makes 5G calls via satellite
AST SpaceMobile, the company aiming to establish a space-based mobile network, announced today that it has successfully made a 5G call for the first time using its massive test satellite, BlueWalker 3. The 5G call was conducted on September 8th between a standard model of the Samsung Galaxy S22 in Hawaii and one of Vodafone’s […]
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Varda Space capsule cannot return to Earth
The American space company Varda Space Industries has encountered some issues with the space capsule they launched into space earlier this year. The plan was for the capsule to return to Earth after testing the production of various drugs in a weightless state in space. Apparently, Varda had not obtained permission from the U.S. Federal […]
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Neuralink ready to test brain chip on humans
Neuralink, Elon Musk’s biotech company aiming to implant chips in people’s brains, has begun seeking patients willing to participate in the company’s first clinical study on humans. The study is called the PRIME Study, which stands for ‘Precise Robotically Implanted Brain-Computer Interface.’ Neuralink is looking for individuals who have been paralyzed due to spinal cord […]
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Venezuela’s president announces plans to travel to the moon
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro stated in an announcement that Venezuela intends to send astronauts to the moon in a Chinese spacecraft. This statement follows Venezuela’s participation in the International Lunar Research Station (ILRS) collaboration. ILRS is initiated by Russia and China as a response to the U.S.-led Artemis moon program. In addition to China, Russia, […]
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Stoke Space Takes a Small Leap Toward Space
The American space company Stoke Space, which is developing a fully reusable rocket model, conducted a test of the upper rocket stage of its future rocket for the first time yesterday. The prototype of the rocket stage is called Hopper 2, and in the video below, you can see how it lifted about four meters […]
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Nasa to study UFO observations
The American space agency NASA has decided to scientifically investigate observations of UFOs, or UAPs (Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena), as NASA and other US agencies prefer to call them. In recent years, UFO sightings have once again become a debated topic in the USA, with some claiming they have extraterrestrial origins. However, there is no evidence […]
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Fourth season of For All Mankind on the way
Apple has just released a teaser trailer for the fourth season of For All Mankind, the TV series that follows an alternate history of the US and Soviet space programs. The trailer is designed as a recruitment advertisement for the space company Helios and is voiced by the aged Edward Baldwin (Joel Kinnaman), who also […]
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Ascento Guard is a rolling security robot
The Swiss startup company Ascento has unveiled its first product, which is a security robot called Ascento Guard. As seen in the image above, it is a rolling robot designed to patrol restricted areas and monitor them using its cameras and thermal sensors. The robot could, among other things, check parking lots, detect unauthorized individuals […]
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Tech Tools to Skyrocket Your Company’s Success
Technology, in general, is the application of knowledge to create things that make tasks easier. This is true of everything from the hammer to the computer microchip. Every piece of technology was the result of innovation and someone who has an idea of how to make life more convenient. In the business world, technology plays […]
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SpaceX must address issues with Starship before the next flight
Last week, SpaceX announced that they were once again ready to attempt the launch of their spacecraft, Starship, into space and were awaiting approval from the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to do so. However, at the end of last week, the FAA announced that it would take some time before SpaceX receives approval to […]
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NASA concludes its oxygen experiment on Mars
NASA announced at the end of last week that it has now concluded its Moxie project, an experiment to generate oxygen that was sent to Mars along with NASA’s Perseverance rover, which landed on Mars in 2021. Moxie (Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment) has been tested to generate oxygen on Mars 16 times over […]
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Google Opens Visitor Center
Google is celebrating its 25th anniversary by opening the Google Visitor Experience in Mountain View next month. The visitor center will include a cafe, a Google store, event spaces, and a pop-up shop featuring local businesses. The center will open to the public on October 12, 2023.
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Oculus Founder to Build Unmanned Combat Aircraft
Anduril, the defense company founded by Palmer Luckey, the founder of VR company Oculus, is planning to develop an autonomous combat aircraft called “Fury.” Fury was originally in development in 2019 by the company Blue Force Technologies, which Anduril has now acquired. Fury is described as an aircraft with the highest level of autonomy (Level […]
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Intel invests in the competitor ARM
Yesterday, the American processor giant Intel announced that it would invest in ARM, the company that develops processor architecture that partially competes with Intel’s own x86 architecture. During the Goldman Sachs Communacopia & Technology conference, Stuart Pann, head of Intel Foundry Services, commented on the investment in ARM: 80 percent of TSMC’s wafers have an […]
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MediaTek has developed a 3nm chip
MediaTek announced yesterday that it has developed its first 3nm chipset based on TSMC’s 3nm process. The new 3nm chip will make its debut next year in MediaTek’s flagship Dimensity series. Currently, we don’t know much more about the chip, except that it offers an 18 percent increase in speed while maintaining the same power […]
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China may face further chip sanctions
American politicians are now calling for additional sanctions against Huawei and other Chinese companies that supply components to Huawei for its mobile phones. This comes after Huawei unveiled the Mate 60 Pro last month, a mobile device with support for both 5G and satellite connectivity. American companies have previously been prohibited from exporting 5G technology […]
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Japan has launched two space missions
Earlier today, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) launched two exciting spacecraft into space. One of them is the Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM), intended to make a soft landing on the moon in early 2024. It’s a relatively small moon lander that carries two mini-rovers to explore the area around the Shioli crater […]
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Here are the services covered by the new EU regulations
The EU Commission has officially confirmed which tech companies and which of their services are considered ‘gatekeepers’ under the new stringent Digital Markets Act (DMA). The companies listed all appeared on a preliminary list released in early July and are predominantly composed of American tech giants. These include Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Meta, and Microsoft from […]
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The U.S. Department of Defense has launched a new UFO-website
The U.S. Department of Defense has launched a new website where it has gathered observations of UFOs, or UAPs (Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon), as they prefer to call them. In addition to videos and details about UAP observations, there is also some statistics available regarding these observations. This includes information about the most commonly reported shapes […]
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Four astronauts back on Earth
Yesterday, four astronauts returned from the International Space Station (ISS) to Earth. The returning astronauts included the two NASA astronauts Stephen Bowen and Woody Hoburg, Roscosmos astronaut Andrey Fedyaev, and Sultan Alneyadi from the United Arab Emirates, who returned on the SpaceX Crew-6 mission. While aboard the ISS, they were part of Expedition 68 / […]
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Spotify Takes Action Against White Noise
Spotify is discontinuing ads for podcasts consisting solely of white noise. These types of podcasts are designed to help listeners relax with soothing sounds like rain or static. Spotify informed creators through changes to its Ambassador Ads program that white noise podcasters will no longer be able to participate starting from October 1st. Instead, Spotify […]
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India’s moon rover has entered sleep mode
The Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) announced last Saturday that their rover Pragyan, which landed on the moon two weeks ago, has now entered sleep mode. This occurred as one of the moon’s two-week-long nights set in. Pragyan is powered by an electric motor, with its batteries being charged by the spacecraft’s built-in solar panels. […]
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India Sends Spacecraft to the Sun
After India’s successful moon landing two weeks ago, the country firmly established itself as one of the world’s leading space nations. This weekend marked another milestone for India’s space endeavors, as it set its sights on the sun. On Saturday, the spacecraft Aditya-L1 lifted off from the Indian spaceport on Sriharikota Island. Aditya-L1 is now […]
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Advanced telescopes targeted by cyberattacks
The U.S. National Science Foundation has reported that cyberattacks against their National Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research Laboratory (NOIRLab) have resulted in the suspension of observation activities at two of their most advanced telescopes. The affected telescopes are NOIRLab’s Gemini North Telescope in Hawaii, shown in the image above, and the Gemini South Telescope in Chile. Several […]
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How to manufacture things in space?
In the future, a new manufacturing industry is expected to launch in space, and CNBC has produced a report on how this will happen and what we can expect. According to a report by consulting firm McKinsey & Co, the market for space-manufactured products could reach $10 billion by 2030. The idea behind manufacturing things […]
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German Bionic releases a new exoskeleton
German Bionic has launched a new version of its exoskeleton called Apogee, specifically developed for use in the healthcare sector, primarily to assist in patient lifting. Initially developed to facilitate lifting in warehouses and industrial settings, Apogee has been further enhanced with Apogee+ to cater to the needs of the healthcare industry. Both Apogee, shown […]
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SpaceX is testing Starship’s engines
Last Friday, SpaceX conducted engine tests on the Super Heavy rocket, which is intended to eventually carry their Starship into space. This marked the second test of the 33 Raptor engines designed to lift Booster 9 of the Super Heavy from the ground. During the initial test on August 9th, only 29 of the engines […]