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23 hours ago | News
NASA’s
next flagship mission, the James Webb Space Telescope, will carry the
largest primary mirror ever deployed in space. Researchers has borrowed a
page from its segmented mirror design to create a similar example just a
half-inch in diameter. Strangely, the tiny mirror may one day become
the standard for future space telescopes.
May 24 | News
NASA
has hired Space Exploration Technologies Corp. to deliver cargo to the
International Space Station, but will eventually add astronauts. And the
space agency is hiring other companies, too. Several
firms—at least eight—think they can make money in space and are close
enough to Musk's company to practically surf in his spaceship's
rocket-fueled wake.
May 23 | News
New research from North
Carolina State University shows that a wind-driven "tumbleweed" Mars
rover would be capable of moving across rocky Martian terrain—findings
that could also help the National Aeronautics and Space Administration
(NASA)
design the best possible vehicle.
May 22 | News
The
SpaceX company made history as its Falcon 9 rocket, carrying 1,000
pounds of space station provisions in its Dragon capsule, rose from its
seaside launch pad and pierced the pre-dawn sky, aiming for a rendezvous
in a few days with the space station. If the mission proceeds as
planned, Dragon will be the first commercial vessel to visit the space
station.
May 16 | News
A multiyear collaboration among Stanford University engineering departments uses some of the world's fastest supercomputers to model the complexities of hypersonic flight. Someday, their work may lead to planes that fly at many times the speed of sound.
May 10 | News
After
spending nearly five months conducting experiments in one spot, the
NASA rover moved for the first time this week, rolling off the rock
outcrop where it hunkered down for the Martian winter. Engineers will
check its power supply before directing it north to study dust and
bedrock.
May 9 | News
Scientists
on a planetary-heat-seeking mission have detected the first infrared
light from
a super-Earth—in this case, a planet some 40 light-years away. And
according to
their calculations, 55 Cancri e, a planet just over twice the size of
Earth, is
throwing off some serious heat.
May 4 | News
A
group of scientists took to the skies in a slow-moving airship Thursday
in search of meteorites that rained over California's gold country last
month. It's the latest hunt for extraterrestrial fragments from the
April 22 explosion that was witnessed over a swath of Northern
California and Nevada.
May 1 | News
Part
helicopter, part airplane, the Office of Naval Research-sponsored
Flexrotor vertical takeoff and landing unmanned aerial vehicle has an
oversized propeller with helicopter-like controls for vertical takeoff
and landing and the wings of a conventional aircraft. If successful, the
craft will extend UAV surveillance capabilities to smaller platforms
like ships.
May 1 | News
Radio
signals reach pilots on board an aircraft through the radar dome, the
rounded nose of the aircraft. But if imperfections are introduced during
the production of this nose, it can impede radio traffic. Researchers
have developed a non-destructive testing system that will identify these
errors during production.
