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Nasa streamed a cat video from space

Nasa has now tested streaming video in HD format from Psyche, the spacecraft that left Earth in October and is expected to reach Psyche 16, the metal asteroid about 600 million kilometers from Earth, in 2029. The transmission from Psyche was conducted using a laser system for communication that Nasa calls Deep Space Optical Communications […]

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Now you can talk to the robot Digit

Agility Robotics has released a clip showing how a user can control their logistics robot Digit with voice commands that the robot previously could not understand. In the clip, Digit is instructed to move a box that is the same color as Darth Vader’s lightsaber, i.e., red. Thanks to Agility incorporating support for a large […]

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China Builds Underwater Data Center

Several Chinese companies have now begun constructing what they say will be the world’s first commercial data center submerged in the sea. The idea behind this is that the water surrounding the data center will cool down the computers inside, instead of them being cooled in other ways. This is a huge project consisting of […]

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Check out a replay of Starship’s launch

This past weekend, SpaceX tested launching its spacecraft Starship with the accompanying Super Heavy booster for the second time. If you missed how it looked, you can check out a clip showing the launch from some new angles below. The launch did not go entirely as SpaceX had hoped. The separation between Starship and Super […]

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SpaceX plans to test Starship tomorrow

SpaceX has now received permission to launch its spacecraft Starship into space again. This will be the second time SpaceX tries to get Starship into space after they failed to do so in the first test conducted in April this year. After the first test of Starship, the American Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) considered that […]

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Astronaut Frank Rubio back on Earth

Yesterday, American astronaut Frank Rubio, along with the two cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin, landed after spending a record-breaking amount of time aboard the International Space Station (ISS). The three departed from Earth on September 21, 2022, and spent 371 days in space before returning to Earth. This makes Frank Rubio the American astronaut […]

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Capsule with asteroid samples has landed on Earth

Yesterday, the asteroid hunter OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer) returned to Earth after spending seven years in space. During these years, the spacecraft traveled to the asteroid Bennu, collected a sample from it, and then returned to Earth. In total, OSIRIS-REx traveled about 6.2 million kilometers on its round trip journey […]

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AST Mobile makes 5G calls via satellite

AST SpaceMobile, the company aiming to establish a space-based mobile network, announced today that it has successfully made a 5G call for the first time using its massive test satellite, BlueWalker 3. The 5G call was conducted on September 8th between a standard model of the Samsung Galaxy S22 in Hawaii and one of Vodafone’s […]

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Varda Space capsule cannot return to Earth

The American space company Varda Space Industries has encountered some issues with the space capsule they launched into space earlier this year. The plan was for the capsule to return to Earth after testing the production of various drugs in a weightless state in space. Apparently, Varda had not obtained permission from the U.S. Federal […]

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Neuralink ready to test brain chip on humans

Neuralink, Elon Musk’s biotech company aiming to implant chips in people’s brains, has begun seeking patients willing to participate in the company’s first clinical study on humans. The study is called the PRIME Study, which stands for ‘Precise Robotically Implanted Brain-Computer Interface.’ Neuralink is looking for individuals who have been paralyzed due to spinal cord […]

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Venezuela’s president announces plans to travel to the moon

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro stated in an announcement that Venezuela intends to send astronauts to the moon in a Chinese spacecraft. This statement follows Venezuela’s participation in the International Lunar Research Station (ILRS) collaboration. ILRS is initiated by Russia and China as a response to the U.S.-led Artemis moon program. In addition to China, Russia, […]

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Nasa to study UFO observations

The American space agency NASA has decided to scientifically investigate observations of UFOs, or UAPs (Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena), as NASA and other US agencies prefer to call them. In recent years, UFO sightings have once again become a debated topic in the USA, with some claiming they have extraterrestrial origins. However, there is no evidence […]

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Ascento Guard is a rolling security robot

The Swiss startup company Ascento has unveiled its first product, which is a security robot called Ascento Guard. As seen in the image above, it is a rolling robot designed to patrol restricted areas and monitor them using its cameras and thermal sensors. The robot could, among other things, check parking lots, detect unauthorized individuals […]