Despite losing the vehicles in the Starship’s first two test flights, SpaceX engineers learned a lot from the missions and, this time around, hope to get the Starship spacecraft into orbit for the first time. NASA will be watching the third test flight closely as it wants to use the sp...
MIT engineers grow "high-rise" 3D chips Boston MA (SPX) Dec 23, 2024 The electronics industry is approaching a limit to the number of transistors that can be packed onto the surface of a computer chip. So, chip manufacturers are looking to build up rather than out. ... more Rice tea...
In the same work area as the Shooting Star modules, Sierra Space engineers are also working on the Large Integrated Flexible Environment (LIFE) habitat. A key aspect of that project is evaluating and testing the use of softgoods to fashion expandable structures using Vectran, a weave of high-...
SpaceX says that its next Starship vehicle is ready for launch but that the FAA won’t be able to provide a license for it until November. Jeff Foust reports on an increasingly strident dispute between SpaceX and the FAA amid broader industry concerns about the launch licensing process.Monday...
☆ Nov 18— Tiangong Space Station, ~390-km LEO: Shenzhou-19 Commander Cai Xuzhe, Engineers Song Lingdong and Wang Haoze transferring cargo from newly arrived Tianzhou 8 (launch mass 14,000 kg), plan to set up bricks made from lunar simulant for 3-years of experimentation including exposur...
Those seals seemed to be a point of interest, if not concern, for both the crew and the engineers on the ground. Reply controltestguy Ed White was a spacewalk. Alexei Leonov was a spacewalk. Standing in the open hatch moving your arms around is just testing the flexibility of the ...
A Space Engineers inspired addon for Mekanism utilizing Valkyrien Skies 2. Aims to add numerous new blocks to create and pilot airships but also new factories to produce high efficiency fuels. Features Ship Control Interface(WIP) - A interface through which the player can control the ship. Gyro...
On the other side of the planet, at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Russian engineers launched the Progress MS-26/67P cargo ship at 10:25 p.m. EST, kicking off a two-day flight to the International Space Station. The Progress is loaded with 5,500 pounds of cargo, including 3,...
Neil Armstrong made history when he stepped onto the moon. Then some of the dust he carried back vanished.
SpaceX engineers had hoped to improve on the Starship's two past performances, which both ended in explosions minutes after launch. However, the company had acknowledged in advance a high probability that its latest flight might similarly end with the spacecr...