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TAMPA, Fla. — Ovzon’s first fully owned satellite has reached its geostationary position after a five-month journey in space and passed initial health checks, the Swedish broadband operator announced June 14. Per Norén, Ovzon’s CEO, said Ovzon 3 will enter service “within a few short weeks,” once manufacturer Maxar Technologies completes the remaining in-orbit tests.

Light cannot condense enough to create a black hole Vadim Sadovski/Shutterstock It seems it is not possible to form black holes out of light alone. If energy and mass are one and the same, as Albert Einstein’s theories posit, then it should be possible to create a region of light so dense it collapses into

Extreme impacts make metals stronger when heated – 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

WASHINGTON — The Senate Armed Services Committee on June 14 cleared its version of the fiscal year 2025 National Defense Authorization Act. The bill is now headed to the Senate floor. The legislation, which has yet to be released in full, includes compromise language on a long-standing dispute over the transfer of Air National Guard

Military pilots must stay alert while controlling fighter aircraft, such as this F-15E Strike Eagle U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Hiram Martinez The US military wants to create a stimulant drug that can be switched on or off in the brain using near-infrared light. Such technology could help Air Force pilots stay alert

Huge fault-tolerant quantum computers on the agenda at Commercialising Quantum 2024 conference – 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

Join our expert panelists as they dive into the growing race for moon resources. With nations and companies now vying for water, metals, and minerals across the lunar surface, will NASA’s commercial strategy prove effective? And can countries coexist in this new frontier?  Panelists Douglas TerrierAssociate Director for StrategyNASA Johnson Space Center Yao SongCo-CEO, Co-founderOrienspace Blaine CurcioFounderOrbital GatewayConsulting Namrata GoswamiAuthor, Professor, Founder Moderator David

Two types of fusion reactor called tokamaks and stellarators both have drawbacks – but a new design combining parts from both could offer the best of both worlds Read the original article here

Could the answer to the Antikythera astronomical device emerge from a Manhattan basement? – 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

WASHINGTON — The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency is turning to the commercial satellite imagery industry for help monitoring objects in Earth’s orbit. The agency on June 12 released a request for information seeking input from companies in the emerging non-Earth imagery (NEI) market. NEI refers to imaging spacecraft, satellites, and space debris in orbit. It’s a

The malaria drug artemisinin is derived from the plant sweet wormwood FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP via Getty Images A medicine already used to treat malaria could also work as a treatment for polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS). In a small trial of 19 women with PCOS, the widely used drug artemisinin improved the regularity of their menstrual

The Kavli Prize in Astrophysics: meet the 2024 laureates David Charbonneau and Sara Seager – 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

HELSINKI — European-Chinese cooperation in lunar exploration could come to an end despite successful collaboration in the ongoing Chang’e-6 mission. ESA provided a payload for China’s Chang’e-6 complex lunar far side sample return mission which launched May 3. The mission aims to gather and return samples from the lunar far side, providing unprecedented insights into

Martin Rees at the 2017 Hay Festival of Literature in Hay on Wye, UK Alamy Stock Photo The Oscars. The Booker prize. The Nobels. The award ceremonies that punctuate our year are all inherently backward-looking, celebrating past achievements. But there is another type of award, one that looks to the future – the challenge prize.

An investigation into battery thermal runaway initiation and propagation – 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. — Kongsberg NanoAvionics hopes to significantly expand its government business after appointing national security specialist Atle Wøllo to lead the Lithuanian small satellite builder. The company appointed Wøllo as CEO June 10 to replace Žilvinas Kvedaravičius, who held the position on an interim basis following the departure of co-founder and former CEO Vytenis Buzas last

adbobe stock/Erika Eros/Alamy/collarge ryan wills Deep inside a black hole, the cosmos gets twisted beyond comprehension. Here, at some infinitesimal point of infinite density, the fabric of the universe gets so ludicrously warped that Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity, which describes how mass bends space-time, ceases to make sense. At the singularity, our understanding

The route to ‘net zero’: how the manufacturing industry can help – 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