In what’s likely to be one of the last space policy initiatives of his administration, President Donald Trump has issued a directive that lays out a roadmap for nuclear power applications beyond Earth., released on December 16th, calls on NASA and other federal agencies to advance the development of in-space nuclear propulsion systems as well as a nuclear fission power system on the Moon.“Space nuclear power and propulsion is a fundamentally enabling technology for American deep space missions to Mars and beyond,” Scott Pace, the executive secretary of the National Space Council, said in a...…In what’s likely to be one of the last space policy initiatives of his administration, President Donald Trump has issued a directive that lays out a roadmap for nuclear power applications beyond Earth., released on December 16th, calls on NASA and other federal agencies to advance the development of in-space nuclear propulsion systems as well as a nuclear fission power system on the Moon.“Space nuclear power and propulsion is a fundamentally enabling technology for American deep space missions to Mars and beyond,” Scott Pace, the executive secretary of the National Space Council, said in a...WW…

Trending:One year after , the Everett, Wash.-based company is gearing up for its second annual set of dives starting next week — and this time, science will be at center stage.Last summer’s expedition kicked off what’s intended to be a yearly series of visits to the 110-year-old ruin, nearly 13,000 feet beneath the surface of the North Atlantic. As , the Titanic hit an iceberg and sank during its first voyage from England to New York in 1912, causing more than 1,500 deaths.The shipwreck was , and there’s been a string of crewed and robotic surveys since then. But is different. The...…Trending:One year after , the Everett, Wash.-based company is gearing up for its second annual set of dives starting next week — and this time, science will be at center stage.Last summer’s expedition kicked off what’s intended to be a yearly series of visits to the 110-year-old ruin, nearly 13,000 feet beneath the surface of the North Atlantic. As , the Titanic hit an iceberg and sank during its first voyage from England to New York in 1912, causing more than 1,500 deaths.The shipwreck was , and there’s been a string of crewed and robotic surveys since then. But is different. The...WW…

Trending:says the sixth flight test of its super-sized Roc carrier airplane ended earlier than planned when the team ran into an unexpected issue.“While completing Roc testing operations, we encountered a test result that made it clear we would not achieve all objectives for this flight,” the California-based company, which was more than a decade ago, . “We made the decision to land, review the data, and prepare for our next flight.”Stratolaunch’s 385-foot-wide, twin-fuselage airplane is the world’s largest aircraft by wingspan. Stratolaunch has been testing Roc at Mojave Air and Space Port...…Trending:says the sixth flight test of its super-sized Roc carrier airplane ended earlier than planned when the team ran into an unexpected issue.“While completing Roc testing operations, we encountered a test result that made it clear we would not achieve all objectives for this flight,” the California-based company, which was more than a decade ago, . “We made the decision to land, review the data, and prepare for our next flight.”Stratolaunch’s 385-foot-wide, twin-fuselage airplane is the world’s largest aircraft by wingspan. Stratolaunch has been testing Roc at Mojave Air and Space Port...WW…

Trending:Three years after Seattle software developer and her teammates at Google , they’ve done it again. Thanks to Iwao and Google Cloud, we now know what pi equals to an incredible precision of 100 trillion digits.Why pi?Mathematicians have been working out the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter for millennia, going back at least as far as the Babylonians (who figured it at 3.125). It’s important for scientists and engineers to, but beyond a certain point, it’s really all about showing how well an algorithm or a computer network can handle more practical problems.That’s...…Trending:Three years after Seattle software developer and her teammates at Google , they’ve done it again. Thanks to Iwao and Google Cloud, we now know what pi equals to an incredible precision of 100 trillion digits.Why pi?Mathematicians have been working out the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter for millennia, going back at least as far as the Babylonians (who figured it at 3.125). It’s important for scientists and engineers to, but beyond a certain point, it’s really all about showing how well an algorithm or a computer network can handle more practical problems.That’s...WW…

Trending:Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’ space venture flew a mannequin into space today during the 15th test flight for its New Shepard reusable suborbital spaceship — but for the first time, living, breathing humans practiced all the steps leading up to launch and following landing.“This is as real as it can get without … sending them on a trip to space,” launch commentator Ariane Cornell said during the countdown to liftoff from Blue Origin’s Launch Site One in West Texas.Bezos was more succinct in an . “It’s time,” the billionaire wrote. He followed up on that assessment with Blue Origin’s...…Trending:Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’ space venture flew a mannequin into space today during the 15th test flight for its New Shepard reusable suborbital spaceship — but for the first time, living, breathing humans practiced all the steps leading up to launch and following landing.“This is as real as it can get without … sending them on a trip to space,” launch commentator Ariane Cornell said during the countdown to liftoff from Blue Origin’s Launch Site One in West Texas.Bezos was more succinct in an . “It’s time,” the billionaire wrote. He followed up on that assessment with Blue Origin’s...WW…