Rice team advances quantum simulation for electron transfer understanding
Sunday, 05 January 2025 10:48
Researchers at Rice University have achieved a significant milestone in quantum simulation by modeling molecular electron transfer processes using a trapped-ion quantum simulator. This innovative study, published in Science Advances, demonstrates an advanced method for studying electron transfer dynamics, which are foundational to many physical, chemical, and biological systems.
Electron t Surface-based sonar system could rapidly map the ocean floor at high resolution
Sunday, 05 January 2025 10:48
On June 18, 2023, the Titan submersible was about an hour-and-a-half into its two-hour descent to the Titanic wreckage at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean when it lost contact with its support ship. This cease in communication set off a frantic search for the tourist submersible and five passengers onboard, located about two miles below the ocean's surface.
Deep-ocean search and recovery i Software-driven smart munitions reshape tactical drone operations
Sunday, 05 January 2025 10:48
XTEND, a leading provider of AI-powered autonomy and tactical drone solutions, has secured an $8.8 million contract with the U.S. Department of Defense's Irregular Warfare Technical Support Directorate (IWTSD). The agreement focuses on delivering Precision Strike Indoor and Outdoor (PSIO) small Unmanned Aerial Systems (sUAS).
The PSIO sUAS platform is a cutting-edge advancement in tactical SpaceX to test vehicle upgrades and payload deployment on next Starship flight
Saturday, 04 January 2025 22:30
SpaceX plans to test several upgrades to its Starship vehicle on its next test flight, scheduled for as soon as Jan.
India unveils plans for 10 missions in 2025 after successful space-docking launch
Saturday, 04 January 2025 08:54
India's space agency says it is planning a record 10 orbital missions, as well as its first commercial effort, during 2025 after successfully launching a space-docking project this week.
Indian Space Research Organization chairman S. Somanath told reporters following Monday's launch of a PSLV-C60 rocket carrying Space Docking Experiment, or SpaDeX, payloads, that the nation has big plan UVA professor aims to boost next-generation space rockets
Saturday, 04 January 2025 08:54
Go faster, farther, more efficiently.
That's the goal driving spacecraft propulsion engineers like Chen Cui, a new assistant professor at the University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied Science. Cui is exploring ways to improve electric propulsion thrusters - a key technology for future space missions.
"In order to ensure the technology remains viable for long-term missi UAH Electric Propulsion Club seeks patent for experimental ion thruster
Saturday, 04 January 2025 08:54
The Electric Propulsion Club (EPC) at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), recently traveled to Milan, Italy, to present STARGATE, an experimental gridded ion thruster developed by the group, at the 75th International Astronautical Congress (IAC). The group's STARGATE team consists entirely of UAH undergraduates and is an independent student research organization working in the fields An autonomous strategy for life detection on icy worlds using Exo-AUV
Saturday, 04 January 2025 08:54
Icy moons like Europa and Enceladus offer intriguing environments for studying potential extraterrestrial life. These environments, particularly the icy shell, ice-water interface, and seafloor, are considered prime regions for identifying robust biosignatures, extant life, and prebiotic chemical systems. Extraterrestrial Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (Exo-AUVs) play a critical role in these ex NASA's LEXI Will Provide X-Ray Vision of Earth's Magnetosphere
Saturday, 04 January 2025 08:54
A NASA X-ray imager is heading to the Moon as part of NASA's Artemis campaign, where it will capture the first global images of the magnetic field that shields Earth from solar radiation.
The Lunar Environment Heliospheric X-ray Imager, or LEXI, instrument is one of 10 payloads aboard the next lunar delivery through NASA's CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) initiative, set to launch Carbon's cosmic 'conveyer belt' across time and space
Saturday, 04 January 2025 08:54
Life on Earth could not exist without carbon. But carbon itself could not exist without stars. Nearly all elements except hydrogen and helium - including carbon, oxygen and iron - only exist because they were forged in stellar furnaces and later flung into the cosmos when their stars died. In an ultimate act of galactic recycling, planets like ours are formed by incorporating these star-built at SpaceX launches UAE’s Thuraya-4 mobile connectivity satellite
Saturday, 04 January 2025 01:04
SpaceX launched the Thuraya-4 voice and data connectivity satellite Jan.
NASA sees strong support for strategy to maintain continuous human presence in LEO
Friday, 03 January 2025 22:54
NASA’s deputy administrator says there is nearly unanimous support for its LEO microgravity strategy that endorses keeping humans in orbit continuously.
AFCEA Space Coast Chapter & SpaceCom Announce Strategic Agreement
Friday, 03 January 2025 18:06
ORLANDO, FL – SpaceCom | Space Congress announced a long-term strategic agreement with AFCEA Space Coast Chapter to expedite procurement acquisition lead times.
Using an oil industry framework to map space resources
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See and hear three years of solar fireworks
Friday, 03 January 2025 13:00
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At the start of this new year, we look back at close-up pictures and solar flare data recorded by the ESA-led Solar Orbiter mission over the last three years. See and hear for yourself how the number of flares and their intensity increase, a clear sign of the Sun approaching the peak of the 11-year solar cycle.
This video combines ultraviolet images of the Sun's outer atmosphere (the corona, yellow) taken by Solar Orbiter's Extreme Ultraviolet Imager (EUI) instrument, with the size and locations of solar flares (blue circles) as recorded by the Spectrometer/Telescope for Imaging X-rays (STIX) instrument. The