Technology
Huge New ESA Tracking Station is Ready for Duty
Caption: ESA's giant Malargüe tracking station Credits: ESA/S. Marti To keep in contact with an ever growing armada of spacecraft…
Could Plasma Jet Thrusters Kickstart Interplanetary Travel?
A great offshoot from commercial space companies getting a foothold in real missions to orbit is that the old entrepreneurial…
1,000 mph Land Speed Record Car Fires Up Its Engines
Caption: The BloodhoundSSC. Image Credit: Curventa and Siemens. 29 years ago today Richard Noble in Thrust2 broke the land speed…
The Dust “Windshield Wiper” That Didn’t Go to Mars
A device that works as a windshield wiper to eliminate Mars dust from the sensors on Mars spacecraft. Credit: UC3M…
Want to Look Inside a Burning Rocket Engine?
Here's a bit of pretty amazing hobby rocket porn. Ben Krasnow walks us through -- in a rather matter-of-fact way…
Sonic-Powered Levitation Allows for Zero-G Drug Research
It's not special effects: researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois have developed a way…
NASA Looking at Dozens of Advanced Technology Concepts
The Contour Crafting Simulation Plan for Lunar Settlement Infrastructure Build-Up, a NIAC-supported concept. Rendering courtesy of Behnaz Farahi and Connor…
Captains, Cylons and Wizard World Chicago
After years watching from the sidelines, I'm fast becoming a comic convention convert. It seems there is something at cons…
CINEMA and the Cube-Shaped Future of Space Science
Caption: Jerry Kim, a former student and systems engineer, holds the CINEMA nanosatellite before it was packaged up and sent…
DARPA Moving Ahead with Building Zombie Frankensatellites
Caption: Phoenix satellite concept. Credit: DARPA “Alien” meets “Bride of Frankenstein” and “Night of the Living Dead?” Straight from a…