ATK Provides Propulsion, Structure for Test of New Technologies to Land Larger Payloads on Mars
ATK (ATK) supported NASA Saturday as it moved one step closer to landing advanced payloads on Mars following the successful test of a next generation braking system. A world-leading producer of rock ... more
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Test-launch of Russia's Angara rocket delayed due to malfunction during pre-launch tests
A defect in the drainage valve of the liquid oxygen tank detected during pre-launch tests led to cancellation of the first test launch of the light-class Angara carrier rocket 19 seconds prior to th ... more
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Microsoft AI weather forecast faster, cheaper, truer: study
Tokyo to waive basic water bills to combat extreme heat
Carbon capture pioneer Climeworks lays off one fifth of staff
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NASA's sounding rocket crashes into Atlantic
NASA's engineers had roughly 19 seconds of excitement in the wee hours of Tuesday morning, as the agency's Terrier-Improved Malemute sounding rocket appeared to successfully blast off from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility. But after less than a third of a minute of hang time, the rocket fell back toward Earth and walloped into the Atlantic Ocean. ... more
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Ask the crowd: Robots learn faster, better with online helpers
Sometimes it takes a village to teach a robot. University of Washington computer scientists have shown that crowdsourcing can be a quick and effective way to teach a robot how to complete tasks. Ins ... more
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New Look At Skyrmions Holds Promise For Spintronics
Skyrmions, subatomic quasiparticles that could play a key role in future spintronic technologies, have been observed for the first time using x-rays. An international collaboration of researchers wo ... more
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NASA aborts launch of OCO-2
NASA's rocket engineers only had a 30-second window to launch its Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 spacecraft into the proper orbit. But at the last second, a problem was detected and, understandably, controllers weren't able to diagnose and repair the defect in just half of a minute. ... more
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Russia plans super-heavy rocket for Lunar, Mars missions
The Russian state corporation Roscosmos intends to hold a meeting in August on developing super-heavy rocket carrier involving a wide range of enterprises of the industry. "In early August we will h ... more
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Iraq signs mega-energy deal with Chinese oil firm
Do photons wear out? An astrophysicist explains light's ability to travel vast cosmic distances without losing energy
Agrivoltaic systems gain public favor over conventional solar parks
