Menu

Blog

Archive for the ‘space travel’ category: Page 196

Feb 22, 2021

This Machine Could Explore Hell for NASA

Posted by in categories: robotics/AI, space travel

With its soaring temperatures and toxic atmosphere, Venus is a punishing place. The longest amount of time a spacecraft has survived on the planet’s surface is just over 50 minutes, when the Soviet-designed Vega 2 mission landed there in 1985.

That’s why NASA dubbed the latest challenge in its Automaton Rover for Extreme Environments (AREE) project “Exploring Hell”: Could designers build a mechanically powered robot that can withstand the harsh environment and explore the unknown world?

Feb 22, 2021

Female Scientist Invents New Plasma Engine That Can Take Humans To Mars 10 Times Faster

Posted by in category: space travel

Female Scientist invents new rocket engine 10 times faster than current engines. More.

Feb 22, 2021

How Fast Can We Travel In Space?

Posted by in category: space travel

Interstellar Travel: Approaching Light Speed.

Feb 21, 2021

SpaceX Space Station concept orbital deployment

Posted by in category: space travel

Feb 21, 2021

Musk Got 4,000 SpaceX Workers to Join a Covid-19 Study

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, space travel

To monitor the prevalence of the virus among employees nationwide, the tech billionaire worked with researchers to build an antibody-testing program. Here’s what he learned.

Feb 21, 2021

Soft Robots

Posted by in categories: robotics/AI, space travel

NASA researchers are developing a series of soft robot actuators to investigate the viability of soft robotics in space exploration and assembly.

Feb 20, 2021

7 ways a trip to Mars could kill you

Posted by in category: space travel

The first human Martian explorers will face huge risks, there’s no way around it.

It doesn’t mean we shouldn’t try.

Feb 20, 2021

What’s behind SpaceX’s $74 billion valuation: Elon Musk’s two ‘Manhattan Projects’

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, internet, space travel

Elon Musk’s SpaceX is now worth $74 billion and investors believe the company’s Starlink and Starship projects will drive that valuation even higher.

Feb 20, 2021

Ingenuity — The First Drone to Fly to Mars!!

Posted by in categories: drones, space travel

PERSEVERANCE CARRYING INGENUITY LANDED ON MARS SUCCESSFULLY!!!

Feb 18, 2021

A Spanish startup is offering trips to space in helium balloons as a cheaper alternative to SpaceX

Posted by in category: space travel

Zero 2 Infinity wants to launch passengers 40 kilometers into space with helium balloons at a much lower price, at just over $130000.