3 Following the highly successful achievements of Booster 11 and Ship 29 on SpaceX’s Starship Flight 4, engineers are already applying lessons learned from the mission ahead of the next flight, including large-scale changes to the Thermal Protection System (TPS). . Although Elon Musk thinks the next flight is a month away, the pairing of … Read more
Teflon objects (orange cylinders) were placed in a waveguide with a rectangular cross section. Then, an electromagnetic signal (blue wavefront) was injected from the right to extract information about the metallic cuboid shown in gray. By measuring the wave field in the area shown in red, researchers can show how information is generated and transported … Read more
A rare burst of light from a dead star is likely to be visible to humans in earth this summer in a fleeting but potentially gloomy celestial display that scientists are calling “a once-in-a-lifetime event.” The technical term for the impending cosmic explosion is nova, which occurs when a white dwarf suddenly and often spectacularly … Read more
Space changes you, even during short trips off-planet. Four people who spent three days outside Earth in September 2021 experienced physical and mental changes that included modest declines in cognitive tests, heightened immune systems and genetic changes within their cells, scientists report in a suite of papers published Tuesday in the journal Nature and some. … Read more
Following one dirty anchorage on the International Space Station last week, Boeing managed to send a pair of NASA astronauts to the orbiting laboratory. The stressful Starliner saga continues as the crew capsule developed more leaks in its service module. NASA is currently evaluating its ability to return the pair to Earth. The first Sonos … Read more