May 2022
Essential guide to the James Webb Space Telescope
.... Everything is moving further away from everything else - the space between galaxies is stretching, increasing year on year. Combined with the finite speed of light this wonderfully, serendipitously, turns our Universe into a time machine. Its...
08 August 2016
NASA Selects Five Projects for Convergent Aeronautics Solutions Study
... would be able to obtain hydrogen from hydrocarbon-based aviation gas and oxygen from the air, subsequently combining them to generate electricity. The system would not need any new facilities or equipment and could therefore...
29 September 2017
Virgo and LIGO detect fourth gravitational wave signal
... masses means that about 3 solar masses of material were converted into gravitational-wave energy as the two combined. “Little more than a year and a half ago, NSF announced that its Laser Gravitational-Wave Observatory...
30 November 2020
Chang'e 5 separates from spacecraft, prepares for a lunar soft landing
.... The spacecraft is performing well and communication with ground control is normal, CNSA said. The lander-ascender combination will execute a soft landing on the moon and carry out automatic sampling. The orbiter-returner will...
July 2014
Space technology transfer portals and the chance progress of innovation
... whether the light from such telescopes could be combined with the super-precision needed to make the concept...research organisation TNO7 developed an ‘optical delay line’, which combines the light seen from each telescope into a single detailed...
July 2014
Preventing catastrophic impact
... the system of planetary defence will be $1-2 billion. This could be covered by taking one thousandth of the world’s combined military budgets. Miscellaneous problems A situation could arise where, even if the system were in place, we may not be ...
