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Airbus to build the Starlab space station

In 2021, Voyager Space presented the Starlab Space Station, and now they are enlisting the help of European aerospace company Airbus to construct it. Starlab is one of the commercial space stations intended to take over when the International Space Station (ISS) is retired at the end of this decade. Voyager Space’s subsidiary, Nanoracks, will […]

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NASA has lost contact with Voyager 2

NASA announced at the end of last week that a series of commands sent to Voyager 2 unintentionally caused it to redirect its antenna, rendering communication with the space probe, sent into space over 45 years ago, impossible. Nevertheless, NASA states that Voyager 2’s original programming causes it to automatically realign its antenna towards Earth […]

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NASA launches streaming service

NASA announced yesterday that they will soon launch NASA+, a new streaming service that will be free. On NASA+, viewers will be able to watch live broadcasts from NASA as well as documentaries and other programs that NASA has recorded over the years. The service will be available through NASA’s apps for iOS and Android, […]

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Lockheed Martin to build DRACO for NASA and DARPA

Yesterday, it was announced that the American aerospace and defense company Lockheed Martin will be responsible for building the spacecraft DRACO (Demonstration Rocket for Agile Cislunar Operations), a vehicle that NASA, together with the United States military’s research division DARPA, presented earlier this year. Lockheed Martin will also enlist the help of the American nuclear […]

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DJI releases Air 3

DJI is now releasing another drone, and this time it comes with dual cameras, which is a first for the Air series. The drone has a wide-angle camera and a 3x telephoto camera, both equipped with a 1/1.3-inch CMOS sensor and a pixel size of 2.4 micrometers. The wide-angle lens is equivalent to 24mm and […]

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Amazon is building a satellite factory

Amazon announced last week that they will construct a new factory for satellites intended for their space internet initiative, Project Kuiper. The new facility will be located adjacent to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida and is estimated to cost around $120 million. Amazon has already started manufacturing satellites at its current facility in Kirkland, […]

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Home Robots Statistics 2023

Home robots are also known as domestic or consumer robots. These robots are designed to assist with tasks we do in our daily lives. These tasks include chores, education, entertainment, and, as well, act as our companionship. The potential applications for home robots are virtually limitless. From robotic vacuum cleaners and lawnmowers to personal assistants, […]

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Now Chandrayaan-3 is on its way to the moon

Today, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) successfully launched Chandrayaan-3 from the Satish Dhawan Space Center in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. Chandrayaan means “lunar vehicle” in Sanskrit, and the objective of Chandrayaan-3 is for its moon lander Vikram (“courage”) to land the rover Pragyan (“wisdom”) near the moon’s south pole. This is India’s […]

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NASA showcases its new minibuses from Canoo

Electric vehicle company Canoo has now delivered the first of the electric minibuses ordered by NASA last year. The order consists of three minibuses intended for transporting NASA’s Artemis astronauts to the rockets that will take them to the moon. The three buses have been modified to accommodate astronauts comfortably in their spacesuits, and NASA’s […]

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Nasa’s Mars helicopter checks in again

Last week, NASA announced that their Mars helicopter Ingenuity has made contact again after being silent for nearly two months. During the radio silence, Ingenuity seems to have had difficulty accessing the Mars rover Perseverance. Ingenuity’s communication with Earth is done through the Mars rover, and if the helicopter cannot establish contact with it, no […]

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Enormous gravitational waves discovered

Since the confirmation of the existence of gravitational waves in 2015, researchers around the world have continued to search for them. Using new technology, a team of researchers has now discovered gravitational waves stretching across several light-years. 190 astronomers from the North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves (NANOGrav) have been tracking radio waves from […]

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BepiColombo sends home new images of Mercury

The European Space Agency (ESA) has released some images from their spacecraft BepiColombo’s third flyby of the innermost planet of the solar system, Mercury. In the three newly released images, we get a closer look at some of the planet’s craters. The image shown above was taken at a distance of approximately 3500 km from […]

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AutoFlights eVTOL now revealed

AutoFlight has previously shown that their eVTOL Prosperity I not only exists on paper, and in February, they set a new record when they flew 25 miles at an average altitude of 170 meters. However, what they were flying then was not the final design, even though it may have appeared so. We have also […]

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Venturi Lab unveils new lunar rover wheel

During the Paris Air Show over the weekend, Venturi Group showcased this deformable lunar rover wheel. They claim to have reinvented the wheel, which will be mounted on their Astrolab Flex lunar lander, set to be transported to the moon by SpaceX’s Starship in 2026. Previous wheels used in lunar missions have always been solid, […]

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Chinese universities are building a flying saucer

The two Chinese universities, Beihang University and Northwestern Polytechnical University, have jointly constructed what is likely the world’s first round eVTOL vehicle, which you can take a closer look at in the images and videos here. The electric-powered vehicle is equipped with six dual rotors and is capable of flying at heights of up to […]

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Astroscale demonstrates how to clean up space debris

Japanese space company Astroscale has released a new video showing how their space debris program, ELSA-M, will work. ELSA-M (End of Life Services by Astroscale – Multiple) is a “garbage truck satellite” that chases down defunct satellites and docks with them. ELSA-M then changes the orbit of the combined spacecraft and eventually releases the dead […]

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Mori3 is a modular robot composed of polygons

Robot researchers at the Swiss École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) have showcased a new modular robot that they believe could be useful in the space industry in the future. The robot is called Mori3 and consists of triangular modules that can be connected to form various polygonal structures, as seen in the image above. […]

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Robotic dog Spot gets some new features

Boston Dynamics has equipped its robotic dog Spot with some new features that can make it more useful during inspection rounds in factories, mines, and other places where the robot is employed. Spot has improved its ability to navigate through different types of spaces and terrains. The robot has also been equipped with a new […]