Why Israel’s First Moon Mission Failed
Beresheet, Israel’s first spacecraft, was scheduled to land on the moon on April 11. Instead, it failed and crashed on the moon’s surface because the engine stalled in the last few minutes of the descent.…
Beresheet, Israel’s first spacecraft, was scheduled to land on the moon on April 11. Instead, it failed and crashed on the moon’s surface because the engine stalled in the last few minutes of the descent.…
Polymer coatings have applications in various industries, such as aerospace interiors and transportation. An array of advantages of changing surface properties was unknown until recently. However, leading experts in plain bearing technologies (GGB), recently made…
GPS (Global Positioning System) satellites are arranged into six equally spaced orbit planes to ensure that users can view four satellites from virtually any point from earth. All these satellites are located 20 000 km from…
Rescuers have an extremely hard time getting to the victims of natural disasters. New research from the team at the University of Zurich tackles this very problem. They created a drone that retracts its propellers…
Elon Musk’s company has announced the first space tourist to be sent around the Moon. The lucky guy is Yusaku Maezawa, a Japanese online fashion tycoon. Maezawa will be the first private customer to ride…
The US space agency is set to work closely with China National Space Administration (CNSA) last month to explore the possibility of setting up a human colony on the lunar surface. Besides setting up a…
Russian advertising Startup StartRocket is planning a new way of advertising by displaying ads in the night sky via satellites. Using a collection of small cubesats satellites, the images and logos will hover in the…
It seems that our scientists have discovered aliens. Recently astronomers have picked up a mysterious repeating signal emanating from some unknown source in space, for the second time in history. The precise nature and origin…
An aircraft with the mechanics of bird flight was first envisioned by Leonardo da Vinci in 1485. Though scientists only recently have started experimenting with the bird’s flapping wings mechanism for the aircraft. One of…
There has been a continued rise in extreme weather events. There is no existing technology to cope up with such adverse weather conditions. Now, the scientists from Harvard and Yale universities have claimed that the…