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According to The New York Times, the US Department of Defense is in a hurry to expand its capabilities to wage war in space. Washington is convinced that China and Russia’s lightning-fast progress in space operations poses a serious threat to U.S. satellites in orbit. As journalists have learned, the details of the Pentagon’s plans […]
SpaceX’s Starship megastar, the world’s largest and most powerful rocket, reached orbital velocity for the first time on Thursday during its historic third test flight from South Texas. Watch Starship’s third flight test → https://t.co/bJFjLCiTbK https://t.co/1u46r769Vp – SpaceX (@SpaceX) March 14, 2024 Hundreds of spectators, rocket launch enthusiasts and SpaceX fans gathered to watch the […]
The railgun was invented to accelerate projectiles with the help of ampere power. This is usually understood as a weapon of the future, but this technology can be used not only for shooting. Chinese scientists and engineers are going to combine recent advances in electromagnetic acceleration and hypersonic flight to launch heavy aircraft into space. […]
About 20 meters of space in Earth’s orbit saved the American NASA satellite TIMED from colliding with the inoperable Russian Cosmos-2221 spacecraft. LeoLabs announced this on the social network X (formerly Twitter). The company said that the collision between the two satellites almost occurred around 04:30 Kyiv time. The LeoLabs equipment recorded that at the […]
Scientists have confirmed that gold and other heavy metals are formed during neutron star collisions. Space journalists told more about this. The study analyzed a long-term gamma-ray burst. Scientists have found that this explosion was caused by the collision of two neutron stars. The discovery allowed them to confirm for the first time that elements […]
Scientists continue to search for clean and sustainable energy sources. One of the most promising areas in this activity is the development of technologies that will allow capturing solar energy directly in space and then transmitting it to Earth. Scientists from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have achieved some success in this regard, having […]
For the first time in history, the ability of surgeons to remotely control a surgical robot in space was tested. The tests were conducted on the ISS. Communication with the station occurs with small delays, which gives automation a special role. In the future, surgical robots should be able to perform operations on their own, […]
Under the heavily cratered and icy surface of Mimas, one of Saturn’s smallest moons, scientists have found a vast ocean of liquid water. This is reported by Sciencedaily, Ukrinform reports. This discovery, led by Dr. Valérie Laney of the Paris Observatory PSL, makes Mimas a prime target for studying the origin of life in the […]
An international team of researchers discovered 18 tidal star destruction events (TDEs) by supermassive black holes that had previously gone unnoticed due to dust in space. These phenomena occur approximately once every 10,000-100,000 years in each galaxy and are accompanied by a huge release of energy. According to scientists, due to dust that hides radiation […]
India plans to send a female robotic astronaut into space, The Independent reports. According to Science and Technology Minister Jitendra Singh, the launch of a robotic astronaut called Vyommitra, which means “friend of space,” is scheduled for the third quarter of 2024. Jitendra Singh noted that the Vyommitra humanoid robot is designed to mimic human […]