Turkish Airlines Flight 1 had just 45 minutes left in its eight-hour-plus journey from Istanbul to New York on March 10, when the Boeing 777 suddenly shook violently and plunged, injuring passengers and members of the flight crew. The plane made an emergency landing at John F. Kennedy International Airport, where 28 passengers and two
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This op-ed originally appeared in the June 10, 2019 issue of SpaceNews magazine. Satellite communications is under threat and in danger of losing its relevance. Fiber connections continue to roll out across the world, giving consumers fast and reliable connectivity even in some of the more rural, previously unconnected areas. With communities continuing to put
Global warming and post apocalyptic future. Climate change and melting of glaciers. Statue of Liberty collapses under water and new New York city skyline on an artificial island. Perhaps the catastrophic predictions are overblown. Getty The U.S. auto industry and regulators in California and Washington appear deadlocked over stiff Obama-era fuel-efficiency standards that automakers oppose
Glowing catsharks that lurk the briny depths have a fluorescence mechanism never seen before in another organism. And that glow could be conferring some serious perks – such as the ability to pick out other sharks among the many fluorescent things on the seafloor. “Studying biofluorescence in the ocean is like a constantly evolving mystery
After being removed by Facebook, the event called “Storm Area 51” has been resurrected. But no advanced extraterrestrial technology was behind the move: according to a spokesperson for Facebook, the event was removed by “mistake”. The BBC reports that the founder of the group, Mathew Roberts, received a message on Saturday claiming that his tongue-in-cheek
Recently, Jupiter entered a position in the sky known as opposition: almost directly opposite the Sun from Earth. It’s the perfect time for eyeballing our Solar System’s biggest planet – and the Hubble Space Telescope got in on the action. On 27 June, as opposition was waning, Hubble snapped a stunning new photo, revealing Jupiter
The world cannot avoid the worst impacts of climate change without making serious changes to the ways humans grow food, raise livestock and manage forests, according to a landmark study Thursday from an international group of scientists. The sprawling report from the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) examines how land use around the
WASHINGTON — Megaconstellation startup OneWeb asked a court to dismiss a June lawsuit by Virgin Orbit, claiming that it doesn’t accurately portray a 2015 launch contract. Virgin Orbit, whose LauncherOne small launch vehicle is nearing a maiden flight, sued OneWeb for cancelling in June 2018 all but four of 39 launches it had purchased. Virgin
Share to facebook Share to twitter Share to linkedin Comet Churyumov–Gerasimenko. What an ugly fella. ESA/Rosetta/NAVCAM Ah, meteor showers. A warm summer night. Blanket on the grass. A sky full of stars. Look, there’s one! Perhaps a quick streak of light through a corner of the sky – blink and you’ll miss it. Or maybe
SpaceX snatched a rocket nose out of the sky – and CEO Elon Musk posted a video of the moment on Twitter. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched an AMOS-17 communications satellite at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on Tuesday. The launch took place at 7:23 pm, and the satellite was deployed 31
On the way to its target orbit, the Atlas’ Centaur upper stage rocket released a cubesat that was riding as a secondary payload. WASHINGTON — The Air Force’s Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF-5) communications satellite reached orbit on Thursday after it successfully separated from a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket approximately 5 hours and
Share to facebook Share to twitter Share to linkedin E-cigarette liquid can contain a high percentage of nicotine, which in large doses could cause seizures, as well as dizziness, nausea, tremors, or even death. Getty Images Topline: The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is investigating 127 cases of e-cigarette users experiencing seizures, and hasn’t detected
With Jupiter currently gracing the northern sky at night, it’s a great time to be pointing a telescope at our Solar System’s colossus. But one astrophotographer got the sight of a lifetime – what appears to be the flash of an impact, as something exploded in the planet’s thick upper atmosphere. On 7 August 2019,
A United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket lifts off from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S., August 8, 2019. Aboard is the fifth Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) satellite, designed to provide the U.S. military with highly-secure communications. REUTERS/Joe Skipper (Reuters) – United Launch Alliance, a joint venture between Boeing
SAN FRANCISCO — When the U.S. Air Force selected 14 companies in July 2014 to help the government launch military payloads on commercial satellites, observers expected a wave of contracts to follow. Five years later, the Hosted Payload Solutions (HoPS) contract vehicle has expired “and will not be extended,” said Col. Charles Galbreath, deputy director
Heliophysics is the study of how the Sun affects space and the space environment of planets. Credit: NASA/JPL NASA may soon use a constellation of free-flying CubeSats to track and image charged particles from the Sun as a means of better understanding our solar system’s space weather. The SunRISE (Sun Radio Interferometer Space Experiment) project
A collection of bird bones sat in lab storage for more than a decade, believed to be the remains of an ancient eagle. Little did scientists know what was hiding in the fossils: “Squawkzilla.” Heracles inexpectatus was discovered by scientists in New Zealand, according to a study published Wednesday. At about 3 feet (1 meter) tall,
It’s time to celebrate another first in the field of quantum physics: scientists have been able to ‘teleport’ a qutrit, or a piece of quantum information based on three states, opening up a whole host of new possibilities for quantum computing and communication. Up until now, quantum teleportation has only been managed with qubits, albeit
With Jupiter currently gracing the northern sky at night, it’s a great time to be pointing a telescope at our Solar System’s colossus. But one astrophotographer got the sight of a lifetime – what appears to be the flash of an impact, as something exploded in the planet’s thick upper atmosphere. On 7 August 2019,
As modern weapons systems become more automated and connected, they become more vulnerable to cyber threats: attacks on IP addresses, radio frequency (RF) manipulation, supply chain risk, human error (e.g., downloading a malicious attachment), and more. Unfortunately, much of today’s systems were never designed with these kinds of attacks in mind—or even cybersecurity in general.