The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) delayed completing a final environmental assessment of the proposed SpaceX Starship spacecraft and Super Heavy rocket program in Texas until June 13. The agency said in April SpaceX had made multiple changes to its application that required additional FAA analysis.Read More
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Researchers working closely with the University of Washington have developed a novel algorithm — known as Tracklet-less Heliocentric Orbit Recovery, or THOR — to find and track asteroids that could possess killer impact for our planet. The algorithm has now proved its usefulness by detecting the first candidate asteroids.Read More
NASA officials have confirmed the payload integration of the NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR), which is expected to be shipped to India after testing for integration with the satellite and eventually with the launch vehicle. NISAR is a joint earth-observation mission between ISRO and the US space agency NASA.Read More
A multidisciplinary Liver4Life research team from Zurich has developed a special machine that can stretch the lifecycle of human livers. They say the perfusion machine mimics the human body as accurately as possible, in order to provide ideal conditions for the liver.Read More
NASA has announced that it has awarded contracts to two companies to develop the next generation of spacesuits for missions to the International Space Station and the Moon. The values of the contracts have not yet been announced but they have a combined ceiling of $3.5 billion through 2034.Read More
The research found an explanation for the structure of the Sun’s chemical composition by taking into account the solar rotation and magnetic fields, which have changed over time.Read More
New method of modelling urban building energy takes into consideration heat waves in urban cities and how human-caused parameters aggravate it. It studies the heating pattern of urban cities during city-wide heat waves. The research is based on a case study conducted in Los Angeles, California, during a five-day heatwave event in September 2009.Read More
A team of researchers led by an Indian-origin engineer has created an e-skin that can feel pain and other sensations. The new development could help create a new generation of smart robots with human-like sensitivity.Read More
Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin have developed a low-cost polymer film that can extract atmospheric water in arid environments. The film is flexible and can be moulded into a variety of shapes and sizes. Making the film requires a gel, which has all the relevant ingredients.Read More
Sony has announced the formation of a new company, Sony Space Communications, which will build and supply devices that allow small satellites in orbit to communicate with one another via laser beams. The devices will work between satellites in space and satellites communicating with ground stations.Read More