Image: Xinhua/Alamy Touchdown: Humans will steer China’s Chang’e-4 lander through the first half of its descent to the moon’s surface. Then, the spacecraft will complete its landing autonomously. In December, China will attempt the first soft landing of a spacecraft on the far side of the moon. No official date has been announced, but the […]
MIT researchers have flown the first airplane that has no moving parts. The aircraft, packed with lithium-ion batteries, used an ion thruster to fly the 60 meters that were available in the indoor flight area. “This was the simplest possible plane we could design that could prove the concept that an ion plane could fly,” said Steven Barrett, […]
Our standards of measurement seem, well, standard. A meter is a meter. A second is a second. The units by which we measure our world simply are—they feel as immutable as an ocean wave. But these longtime standards are set to change. A governing body unanimously voted Friday for the biggest ever overhaul of the […]
Active Minerals International (AMI) and OSD of Australia have entered into a binding agreement that provides a step change in transportation costs to the mining industry via hydro transportation (slurry) of lump coal and magnetite via pipeline. OSD and AMI have come together to provide this solution which has the potential to significantly reduce OPEX, […]
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Expro has strengthened the opening of its new purpose-built facilities in Baku, winning a four year contract extension for BP’s Shah Deniz Stage 2 project. The contract extension will see Expro continue its provision of subsea landing string equipment and services to the project in the South Caspian Sea. In 2014, Expro secured a five […]
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Teledyne e2v has won funding that will enable it and its partners to develop a quantum gravity sensor and a quantum miniature atomic clock that will power future 5G networks and ultra-secure quantum communication technology. Led by RSK and in partnership with Teledyne e2v, University of Birmingham and Fraunhofer CAP, this project will build a […]
A Falcon 9 rocket due to take off from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California next week will launch a unique cargo into orbit alongside the usual communications and observation satellites—the “soul” of Robert Henry Lawrence Jr., the first African American astronaut. The launch manifest for the SSO-A SmallSat Express mission, organized by Seattle-based Spaceflight […]
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