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.…
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Benefits of Tribological Coatings for Industry Purposes
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…
The Deployment of 5G in South Korea and The World
South Korea has now become the first nation to implement a full 5G network nation-wide on the 3rd of April 2019. To realize this achievement, three Companies agreed to bring 5G to South Korea: SK Telecom (SKT), KT,…
Measles Is A Health Emergency In The US
Is this even possible in the 21st Century you might ask? Or does histories wheel have a cynical way to turn a full circle and come back to bite us? History In 2000, the CDC…
Russia’s New GPS Spoofing Warfare
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…
Could Rapid-Charging Saltwater Batteries Be the Answer?
Researchers from the Imperial College in London have presented their approach to the latest trend that is saltwater batteries. The team has developed a prototype made of specially structured polymers and demonstrated unprecedented charge and…
Power Plants: Researchers Are Close to Solving the ‘Boiling Crisis’ Problem
“A new understanding of heat transfer in boiling water could lead to efficiency improvements in power plants.” – MIT The ‘Boiling crisis’ or the ‘critical heat flux’ is the thermal limit beyond which the phase…
GM Invests $300 Million in Michigan Electric Vehicle Plant
General Motors has just placed a big bet on the expected growth of the electric vehicles market, investing $300 million in its Orion Assembly Plant in Michigan, USA. This is the same location where the…
Bloodhound Land Speed Record Car Relaunched Under New Ownership
Boys and their toys. It sounds like an extract from a spy movie. After the purse dried up for the UK based Company Bloodhound Programme Ltd., in 2018, the project was left with a financial…
Solid-State Battery Technology on the Moon in 2021
What’s so great about solid state batteries to cause all the excitement? In theory, they will cost less, last long, and be capable of more charge/discharge cycles than traditional lithium-ion batteries. And why are liquid…
