jueves, 20 de julio de 2023
Celebrating International Moon Day while paving the way for lunar habitation
Today is International Moon Day, which marks the 54th anniversary of the first Moon landing. To celebrate, let's take a closer look at the future of lunar exploration with Achim Seidel, an Airbus engineer who works on Roxy, an industrial process that could one day provide all the essentials necessary to sustain human life on the Moon.
Northrop Grumman will design autonomous vertical takeoff, landing aircraft for DARPA
The aircraft will be capable of performing intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance and targeting missions, and supporting expeditionary missions for special operations forces and logistical missions with significant affordability impacts for ship-to-shore transition of parts and supplies.
NASA may have just cracked the code for replacing lithium in batteries: ‘Double or even triple the energy’
While lithium-ion batteries currently dominate the battery technology space, NASA has used a different type of battery called a "solid-state battery" that is lighter and can store more power than lithium-ion batteries.