56 results for “space”
NASA's Roman Space Telescope has completed its launch and initial deployment. Over the next three months, the mission must still power up its instruments, achieve focus, and validate a ground data network that includes stations in Japan.
OpenAI has proposed ending its model supply deal with Cursor, now a SpaceX subsidiary. Here's a breakdown of which features personal API keys can't replace, and the contractual risks facing Cursor's multi-model platform.
An explainer on the optics behind Roman Space Telescope's Hubble-class mirror and wide, repeated sky surveys, its approach to planet-hunting and dark-energy measurement, and what its technology means—and its limits—for future direct-imaging missions.
SpaceX plans to launch Vera Rubin-based AI satellites in Q4 2027. We examine what differs from ground-based racks, the average 175kW heat dissipation challenge, and where FCC approval stands.
SpaceX's planned $100 billion Starship spaceport on Louisiana's coast is examined through its 10-launch-pad design, tax incentives, local payments, and the FAA environmental review still ahead.
A research team at the University of Adelaide and other institutions has developed a purple textile whose surface temperature runs 4.2°C cooler than white cotton. By harnessing a metal-organic framework (MOF), the material releases heat into space through an atmospheric window, achieving both vivid color and strong cooling performance at once.
A University of Tokyo research group has used adjacent atomic columns in a silicon crystal—spaced 136 pm apart—as a natural double slit, publishing in Nature an interferometric measurement that shrinks Young's experiment by a factor of 10 million. By reading the visibility of the interference fringes, the method quantifies the stiffness of atomic bonds and their correlated thermal vibrations, potentially offering atomic-level insight for heat-dissipation design in semiconductors.
Heart Aerospace's X1, a battery-electric aircraft weighing over 25,000 pounds, completed a 27-minute first flight. The $5 power cost figure does not represent total operating cost, and commercialization still requires ES-30 testing in 2028 and type certification in 2031.
The strongest solar particle event on record, from 1956, could raise radiation levels at airliner cruising altitude to 1,000 times normal. Based on this quantitative assessment, a research team at the Surrey Space Centre has proposed a six-level "Atmospheric Radiation scale" tailored specifically to aviation operations. It aims to resolve the structural problem of current space weather alerts producing false alarms more than nine times out of ten, and to offer, for the first time, a clear criterion for deciding when to halt flight operations.
SpaceXAI released Grok 4.6, which tied GPT-5.6 Sol on the overall index. This article separates individual evaluations, execution conditions, and per-task unit costs to organize the decision criteria for adopting agents.
