Using newly upgraded air-to-air photographic technology that took 10 years to develop, NASA's ethereal images show for the first time the interaction of shock waves from two supersonic planes in flight. The achievement came about during the latest phase of the agency's Air-to-Air Background Oriented Schlieren (AirBOS) flights at the Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California. [Full Article...]
Wu, now in Beijing for the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, one part of the 'Two Sessions' (known in Chinese as Lianghui), also said that scientific findings made by recently launched Lunar probe, Chang'e 4 , will be made available for members of the public who wish to view them, although no specific timeline for that has been given. [Full Article...]
She was followed almost 20 years later by the second woman in space, Svetlana Savitskaya, who also did a spacewalk 2 years later. Anne McClain and Christina Koch, two NASA astronauts with Expedition 59 , will operate the spacewalk - the name for when an astronaut gets out of a vehicle while in space - on March 29. [Full Article...]
Beresheet - which means "Genesis" in Hebrew - lifted off from Cape Canaveral in Florida two weeks ago atop a used SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. In the photo taken during a slow spin of the 1,300-pound spacecraft, the Israeli flag with the Star of David is seen along with the inscription in English, "Small Country, Big Dreams". [Full Article...]
When a science fiction plot portrays Earth in peril from a potentially devastating asteroid impact, a collection of heroes usually swoops in to save the day by detonating the enormous space rock into fragments. The first phase considered the processes that begin immediately after an asteroid is hit, processes that occur within fractions of a second. The hypothetical asteroid had cracked, but not c... [Full Article...]
A plaque displays Israel's flag with the inscriptions, "Am Israel Chai" ("the Jewish people lives") and, in English, "Small Country Big Dreams". The Beresheet lander, which is the size of a dishwasher and takes its name from the Hebrew phrase for "In the Beginning", was built by SpaceIL and Israel Aerospace Industries with almost $100 million in backing from Israeli billionaire Morris Kahn, ... [Full Article...]
The other face, most of which can not be seen from Earth, is called the far side or "dark side" of the moon, not because it is dark, but because most of it is uncharted. The landing of Chang'e 4 exhibits the nation's growing abilities and also paves the way for new discoveries in the region of the moon that has remained unexplored. [Full Article...]
The miniature version of the Cheetah 3 robot which rather appears like a small dog rolls over and its joints are said to be capable of spinning three times faster. The team wrote a "giant, nonlinear, offline trajectory optimizations" that incorporated the robot's dynamics and actuator capabilities, and specified a trajectory in which the robot would start out in a certain, right-side-up orientat... [Full Article...]
Using newly upgraded air-to-air photographic technology that took 10 years to develop, NASA's ethereal images show for the first time the interaction of shock waves from two supersonic planes in flight. The achievement came about during the latest phase of the agency's Air-to-Air Background Oriented Schlieren (AirBOS) flights at the Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California. [Full Article...]
Wu, now in Beijing for the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, one part of the 'Two Sessions' (known in Chinese as Lianghui), also said that scientific findings made by recently launched Lunar probe, Chang'e 4 , will be made available for members of the public who wish to view them, although no specific timeline for that has been given. [Full Article...]
She was followed almost 20 years later by the second woman in space, Svetlana Savitskaya, who also did a spacewalk 2 years later. Anne McClain and Christina Koch, two NASA astronauts with Expedition 59 , will operate the spacewalk - the name for when an astronaut gets out of a vehicle while in space - on March 29. [Full Article...]
Beresheet - which means "Genesis" in Hebrew - lifted off from Cape Canaveral in Florida two weeks ago atop a used SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. In the photo taken during a slow spin of the 1,300-pound spacecraft, the Israeli flag with the Star of David is seen along with the inscription in English, "Small Country, Big Dreams". [Full Article...]
When a science fiction plot portrays Earth in peril from a potentially devastating asteroid impact, a collection of heroes usually swoops in to save the day by detonating the enormous space rock into fragments. The first phase considered the processes that begin immediately after an asteroid is hit, processes that occur within fractions of a second. The hypothetical asteroid had cracked, but not c... [Full Article...]
A plaque displays Israel's flag with the inscriptions, "Am Israel Chai" ("the Jewish people lives") and, in English, "Small Country Big Dreams". The Beresheet lander, which is the size of a dishwasher and takes its name from the Hebrew phrase for "In the Beginning", was built by SpaceIL and Israel Aerospace Industries with almost $100 million in backing from Israeli billionaire Morris Kahn, ... [Full Article...]
The other face, most of which can not be seen from Earth, is called the far side or "dark side" of the moon, not because it is dark, but because most of it is uncharted. The landing of Chang'e 4 exhibits the nation's growing abilities and also paves the way for new discoveries in the region of the moon that has remained unexplored. [Full Article...]
The miniature version of the Cheetah 3 robot which rather appears like a small dog rolls over and its joints are said to be capable of spinning three times faster. The team wrote a "giant, nonlinear, offline trajectory optimizations" that incorporated the robot's dynamics and actuator capabilities, and specified a trajectory in which the robot would start out in a certain, right-side-up orientat... [Full Article...]