by rmil2k | Feb 8, 2024 | News
Mace Windu, that purple light saber-swinging Jedi Master who stood toe-to-toe with the devious Darth Sidious in 2005’s “Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith” until falling to his apparent death from a Coruscant skyscraper, is rising in estimation amid that...
by rmil2k | Feb 7, 2024 | News
The space station Tiangong has been constructed over the course of multiple launches. It consists of a central core module named Tianhe and two lab modules named Wentian and Mengtian. In this rendering, a Tianzhou cargo craft is docked in the foreground, with a...
by rmil2k | Feb 7, 2024 | News
Black holes have always held a special fascination for me ever since I was a geeky kid looking up at the stars. Their intense forces are the stuff of science fiction and can tear a star to pieces. This process is violent and can send bursts of electromagnetic...
by rmil2k | Feb 7, 2024 | News
ESA’s deep-space communication station in Spain has received a ‘cool’ new upgrade.The ‘antenna feed’ connecting the physical Ka-band antenna to the station’s electronic signal transmitter and receiver is now being cooled to -263°C. That’s just 10 degrees above the...
by rmil2k | Feb 7, 2024 | News
SpaceX plans to launch another batch of its Starlink internet satellites early Wednesday morning (Feb. 7).A Falcon 9 rocket carrying 22 Starlink spacecraft is scheduled to lift off from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on Wednesday during a 37-minute window...
