Earlier today, Russia’s lunar spacecraft Luna 25 lifted off from the Russian spaceport Vostochny Cosmodrome, and in the clip here, you can see how it looked. It will be the first time in 47 years that Russia undertakes a lunar mission, and this time, the goal is to land at the Moon’s South Pole. Luna […]
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Russia is set to send a spacecraft to the moon on Friday
Russia’s space agency, Roscosmos, has announced its plans to launch the unmanned spacecraft Luna 25 to the moon on Friday, August 11th. This will be the first lunar mission conducted by Russia, or the Soviet Union as it was called back then, since 1976. Luna 25’s development began in the late 1990s but has faced […]
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Manned Starliner launch postponed to 2024
The issues for Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft seem to persist, and now the first manned launch has officially been pushed to next year. Starliner is one of the two spacecraft that NASA has planned to use for sending astronauts and supplies to the International Space Station (ISS). The other spacecraft is SpaceX Dragon 2, which has […]
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Chandrayaan-3 sends back an image of the moon
The Indian lunar spacecraft, Chandrayaan-3, which departed from Earth on July 14, has now entered lunar orbit in preparation for its attempt to land on the moon. In the process, the spacecraft took photos of the moon from various distances, and you can see one of these images below. The plan now is for Chandrayaan-3 […]
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James Webb photographs the Ring Nebula
Astronomers involved in the “JWST Ring Nebula Imaging Project” have now released a new picture of the Ring Nebula taken with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). The Ring Nebula is located approximately 2600 light-years away from us and is the remnants of a dying star from which the nebula has formed. Professor Mike Barlow […]
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NASA has regained contact with Voyager 2
The U.S. space agency NASA announced the other day that they have reestablished communication with their spacecraft, Voyager 2, which is the second-farthest space probe from Earth ever. At the end of last month, NASA lost contact with Voyager 2 after an erroneous command was sent to the probe, causing its antennas to reorient. In […]
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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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Spotify is gaining more and more users
Spotify has now provided more details about its latest quarter, and it looks good. They now have a total of 551 million active users, of which 220 million are premium users. This is an increase of 27% and 17%, respectively, compared to one year ago. There are 343 million users who use the service with […]
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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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Unitree releases the robot dog Go2
Chinese robot manufacturer Unitree has unveiled a new version of their robot dog called Go, which is more powerful than the first version released in 2021. The base version of Go2 is equipped with twelve servos and has a top speed of 3.5 meters per second (9 km/h). It is controlled via Wifi 6 or […]
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Hubble captures aftermath of NASA’s asteroid collision
The Hubble Space Telescope has now captured some of the aftermath that occurred when NASA’s DART mission (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) collided with the asteroid Dimorphos in September last year, which NASA conducted to test if they could change the course of the asteroid. As seen in the images above and below, the collision resulted […]
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Astronomers find a white dwarf with two “faces”
Astronomers at Caltech have discovered the remnants of an old star, known as a white dwarf, that looks unlike anything observed before. The white dwarf has two distinct sides, one composed of hydrogen while the other is made of helium. The astronomers have named the white dwarf Janus, after the Roman god often depicted with […]
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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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Robots are being tested for future moon missions
Researchers at ETH Zurich have begun testing a group of dog-like robots that may be used to explore the moon in the future. These robots are three modified robots from the Swiss robotics company ANYmal, which we have mentioned a few times before. The idea behind these robots is that they could assist each other […]
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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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China becomes the first to reach space with a methane-powered rocket
The Chinese space company Landspace became the first in the world to successfully launch a rocket fueled by a mixture of liquid methane and oxygen, known as metalox, into an orbit around the Earth. The Zhuque-2 rocket was Landspace’s second attempt to reach space with a methane-powered rocket. The first attempt took place at the […]
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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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Company wants to change the direction of asteroids with a catapult
The non-profit organization, The Aerospace Corporation, has developed a concept that could be used to alter the course of asteroids that pose a threat to Earth. It involves a catapult-like solution designed to land on asteroids that are on a collision course with Earth. Once the catapult has landed on an asteroid, the idea is […]
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Alef granted permission to test flying car in the US
American company Alef Aeronautics has now been granted permission by the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to test the flying car they presented last year. The electric-powered air and ground vehicle is called “Model A.” It is designed to both fly and be driven as a traditional car, albeit at a slow speed, on public […]
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Japanese university showcases cyborg arms
Researcher Masahiko Inami at the University of Tokyo has developed a pair of cyborg arms intended to be attached to a person’s back. The project is called Jizai Arms, and Inami says he drew inspiration from a horror novel about a man who borrowed a woman’s arms. The wearable arms have so far only been […]
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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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Biden announces a broadband internet plan totaling $42 billion
U.S. President Joe Biden has committed to allocating $42 billion towards ensuring high-speed broadband access to every household in the country within the next seven years. During a speech at the White House, Biden emphasized the significance of this “historic investment” in making affordable high-speed internet available to all Americans by 2030. The funding for […]
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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, […]