View photos That’s when your old car doesn’t seem so great anymore (AFP Photo/Boris Roessler) More Frankfurt am Main (AFP) – Automakers descended on Frankfurt Tuesday to show off their latest innovations at the glitzy International Motor Show (IAA), even as the spectre of tough new environmental rules and a […]
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PARIS — Virgin Orbit says it will perform 24 missions with its LauncherOne small-satellite booster in 2020 despite pushing intitial test flights into 2018. Dan Hart, president of Virgin Orbit. Credit: Virgin Orbit Virgin Orbit, before being spun off from human spaceflight-focused Virgin Galactic in March, had set out to […]
Evgenija Lanz/EyeEm By Sam Wong Could the effects of air pollution be mediated by the mix of bugs in our airways? It seems that exposure to pollutants correlates with differences in the species of bacteria living in our respiratory tracts. This may be a hidden link between pollution and disease. […]
The OneWeb-Airbus joint venture tasked with building 900 satellites for OneWeb plans to keep its first production line in France running to build satellites for other operators. OneWeb Satellites is building the first 10 small satellites for OneWeb’s low-Earth orbit broadband constellation in Toulouse, France, before shifting production of the […]
WASHINGTON — Satellite operator SES has selected Arianespace to launch a fifth set of O3b satellites as well as a large geostationary orbit communications satellite, the companies announced Sept. 12. In one announcement, SES said that a fifth set of four O3b satellites will launch on a Soyuz rocket from […]
View photos Firefighters and police officers stand by an ambulance on the site where three people reportedly died when they fell into a crater in a steamy volcanic field in Pozzuoli, near Naples, Italy, Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2017. Italian news reports say an 11-year-old Italian boy and his parents died […]
While most people believe the idea of time travel belongs in the movies, it is technically feasible. Paul Sutter, an astrophysicist at Ohio State University, says if engineers could manufacture a ship that travels at the speed of light and moves away from Earth, this would allow those on board […]
PARIS — Blue Origin will likely launch the third iteration of its New Shepard suborbital launch vehicle by year’s end, paving the way for a human-rated version and ironing out the reusability plan for the orbital New Glenn rocket. The company also revealed a large, 7-meter payload fairing for New […]