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LOGAN, Utah — Orbital transfer vehicle developer Impulse Space will offer rideshare services for spacecraft going to geostationary orbit using its Helios tug, along with an upgraded version of its Mira vehicle. Impulse Space announced at the Small Satellite Conference that it is working with Exolaunch on its GEO Rideshare Program. The first mission is

It’s not all eating bits of food floating in mid-air and introducing suction toilets to fascinated Earthlings – crews on the International Space Station (ISS), which will be coming to an end soon, have serious work to do. Since the station’s inception, astronauts and cosmonauts have performed more than 3000 experiments in the microgravity and

First patients treated using minibeam radiation therapy – Physics World Skip to main content Close search menu Discover more from Physics World Copyright © 2024 by IOP Publishing Ltd and individual contributors Read the original article here

LOGAN, Utah — After nearly four decades in Logan, Utah, the Small Satellite Conference is moving to Salt Lake City in August 2025. Conference Chair Pat Patterson announced during Monday’s opening session of the 38th annual conference that starting next year, SmallSat will be held at Calvin L. Rampton Salt Palace Convention Center. Patterson cited

Keto diets involve getting most of your calories from fat Shutterstock/George Dolgikh Eating a keto diet, which entails consuming most of your calories from fat and very few from carbohydrates, does lead to fat loss, but may also clog arteries and negatively affect the gut microbiome. Also known as a ketogenic diet, this way of

Tsung-Dao Lee: Nobel laureate famed for work on parity violation dies aged 97 – Physics World Skip to main content Close search menu Discover more from Physics World Copyright © 2024 by IOP Publishing Ltd and individual contributors Read the original article here

LOGAN, Utah — A Falcon 9 launched a Northrop Grumman Cygnus cargo spacecraft to the International Space Station Aug. 4, but the spacecraft suffered problems that have delayed maneuvers needed to reach the station. A Falcon 9 lifted off from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral, Florida, at 11:02 a.m. Eastern. The launch appeared

The bacterium Alcaligenes faecalis has unexpected wound-healing effects SciMAT /Science Photo Library An open wound is the perfect playground for bacteria – but some of these bacteria are actually helpful. Researchers found that Alcaligenes faecalis – named as such because it was originally discovered in faeces – promotes the healing of chronic wounds. In people

Rumours spread like nuclear fission, say physicists – Physics World Skip to main content Close search menu Discover more from Physics World Copyright © 2024 by IOP Publishing Ltd and individual contributors Read the original article here

LOGAN, Utah — Two Indian astronauts will soon start training at NASA’s Johnson Space Center, with one of them flying to the International Space Station on an upcoming private astronaut mission. The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) announced Aug. 2 that two of the four members of its astronaut corps, Shubhanshu Shukla and Prasanth Balakrishnan

A dressage horse iStockphoto During the Olympic equestrian events of dressage, horses display dance-like steps that demand high levels of muscular strength and control across the animals’ bodies and legs. But at the 2024 Olympics in Paris, there has been more focus on the position of the horses’ heads. On 27 July, Brazilian rider Carlos

Smashing heavier ions creates superheavy livermorium – Physics World Skip to main content Close search menu Discover more from Physics World Copyright © 2024 by IOP Publishing Ltd and individual contributors Read the original article here

LAS VEGAS — Rocket Lab launched the fifth radar imaging satellite for Japanese company Synspective Aug. 2, continuing work with its largest commercial customer. An Electron lifted off from Pad B of Rocket Lab’s Launch Complex 1 at 9:39 a.m. Eastern. The rocket’s kick stage deployed the StriX spacecraft into a planned 543-kilometer orbit inclined

Short-lived neutron stars may explain both the extreme magnetic fields of black holes and gamma ray bursts, the most powerful explosions in the universe Read the original article here

Vera C Rubin Observatory’s secondary mirror successfully installed – Physics World Skip to main content Close search menu Discover more from Physics World Copyright © 2024 by IOP Publishing Ltd and individual contributors Read the original article here

TAMPA, Fla. — SES is seeking ways to cut costs as the loss of revenues from a bankrupt broadcast customer in Brazil deals a blow to the satellite operator’s declining video business. While SES said Aug. 1 it has secured revenues from this customer for the rest of the year, the Luxembourg-based operator is bracing

Queshque glacier in Peru is retreating because of global heating Emilio Mateo/Aspen Global Change Institute Mountain glaciers in the Andes are almost certainly the smallest they have been for at least 130,000 years, a study of rocks exposed by the melting ice has found. “This shocked us, frankly,” says Andrew Gorin at the University of

From new physics to sustainability, particle physics looks to the future – Physics World Skip to main content Close search menu Discover more from Physics World Copyright © 2024 by IOP Publishing Ltd and individual contributors Read the original article here