Because sometimes you need a V2 rocket with your schnitzel Geek's Guide It's September and the German city of Munich is celebrating Oktoberfest. But away from the beer tents, schnitzel, and lederhosen lies a set of museums worth visiting for the pr…
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Lees meerDSOC hit record speeds beaming data from Psyche before going dark NASA's Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) demonstration has completed its final pass, although there is a chance the system might be reactivated in the second half of 2026.…
Lees meerIf at first you don't succeed, you might be SpaceX NASA and SpaceX have successfully raised the orbit of the International Space Station (ISS) with a 15-minute burn of the Draco thrusters located in the trunk of the Dragon freighter.…
Lees meerThe Register is at the world’s biggest space gabfest and just heard the world's top 6 space agency leaders speak IAC 2025 If the USA’s space strategy succeeds, it will run a “village” on the moon in a decade, NASA administrator Sean Duffy told the …
Lees meerAptly named spacecraft might never make it to the orbital outpost after all NASA and Sierra Space have modified the Commercial Resupply Services-2 contract, which originally called for the Dream Chaser spaceplane to be used to supply the Internation…
Lees meerMeanwhile, Katalyst wins $30M contract to stop Swift telescope falling out of the sky NASA has made progress with plans to boost the rapidly decaying orbit of the Swift observatory while calling an abrupt halt to an attempt to reboost the Internatio…
Lees meerLambda's latest innovation with bit barn builder ECL only supports a handful of Nvidia racks, but it's a start Rent-a-GPU outfit Lambda says its latest Nvidia GB300 NVL72 system is not only powered entirely by hydrogen fuel cells but doesn't consume…
Lees meer21st century tech confused by $100 of shiny stuff Mirrors can fool the Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) sensors used to guide autonomous vehicles by making them detect objects that don’t exist, or failing to detect actual obstacles.…
Lees meerSafety watchdog doubts SpaceX can ready HLS in time for 2027 Artemis mission NASA's Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel (ASAP) has cast doubt on SpaceX's Starship making the 2027 Artemis III lunar landing deadline.…
Lees meerIt's one small sip for man... British boffins say they've discovered a way of taking one of the country's favorite pastimes – having a nice cup of tea – into outer space.…
Lees meerIt's also spinning twice as fast than thought, making a tricky rendezvous even trickier Japan's Hayabusa2 probe faces a tougher mission after new measurements revealed its target asteroid is nearly three times smaller and spinning about twice as fas…
Lees meerJudge rules there’s no quick fix for 1,700+ axed grants, leaving labs scrambling for cash while the lawsuit plays out A US court has cleared the way for the National Science Foundation to press ahead with the cancellation of more than 1,700 research…
Lees meerInject this synthetic phage into E. coli and it kills better than the real thing A group of Stanford bioengineers claim that they've created synthetic bacteriophages using AI-generated designs that not only work in the real world, but are far more i…
Lees meerBatteries emit distinct acoustic signatures depending on how they're failing – a bit like people, really When lithium-ion batteries degrade, they emit acoustic signals that reveal what's going wrong inside. Now, MIT researchers say they've figured o…
Lees meerThanks for the memories, Akatsuki Japan’s Aerospace Exploration Agency has decided to abandon its Akatsuki Venus orbiter, after losing contact with the craft last year.…
Lees meerInject this synthetic phage into E. coli and it kills better than the real thing A group of Stanford bioengineers claim that they've created synthetic bacteriophages using AI-generated designs that not only work in the real world, but are far more i…
Lees meerCrew will have to wait a little longer for science supplies, spares, and 'fun food' NASA has delayed a supply delivery to the International Space Station (ISS) after the engines of Northrop Grumman's Cygnus XL cargo spacecraft did not perform as exp…
Lees meerBatteries emit distinct acoustic signatures depending on how they're failing - a bit like people, really When lithium-ion batteries degrade, they emit acoustic signals that reveal what's going wrong inside. Now, MIT researchers say they've figured o…
Lees meerThat's optimistic based on progress so far US Energy Secretary Chris Wright believes that the country will have at least one small nuclear rector up and running by July 2026, despite the fact that not a single one has been built to date, after multi…
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