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2. The Future of outer space Since the first Sputnik (1957) some 11,000 satellites have been launched into space and many are still up there orbiting the planet. The McKinsey report considers the outer space as an important “market” that will fully develop in the next decade. If you look …

Dr. Josef Schmid, a flight surgeon, and his team were teleported to the International Space Station in October 2021 as part of an experiment to plan the way for telemedicine in space. The ISS was (and is) travelling at 28,000 kmh orbiting at 400 km above the Earth surface. NASA …

Small drones have become so ubiquitous that legislators all around the world are scrambling to regulate their (invasive) presence. Apart, obviously, from airspace near airports their presence is also forbidden in several places. Some Countries are requiring a registration and rules on their flights. It is not just the small …

It is vacation time, at least in Italy, and so why not relax and take a look at some nice pictures of our planet taken from the sky by the NASA Earth Observatory? I stumble onto these photos as I was looking at the present status and future challenges for …

Just after having discussed on electric vehicles, cars mostly, I run into this news about NASA starting testing its X-57 electric airplane prototype. For the time being the testing is focussing on the software to control power to the engines (propellers, as seen in the photo) snd the vibrations. The …

Fitbit has signed an agreement with NASA to provide 1,000 of its Fitbit Charge 4 wearables to NASA personnel, including its 150 astronauts. The wearables will be connected to the Work Daily Check-in platform were data analytics will evaluate the probability that the data provided by the wearables signify a …

Scientists have been dreaming and discussing Quantum Computers for at least 50 years (for a nice timeline of ideas and implementation of Quantum Computing click here) but the construction of an effective QC has proved elusive. Big players, like Google, IBM, NASA in the US, National Scientific organisations in Japan, …

NASA has announced working on a supersonic plane, the X-59, that will be able to cross the sound barrier (1234km/h in dry air at 20°C, an easy number to remember) without producing the sonic “bang”.  Such a plane would be able to pass the speed of sound over inhabited area …

Science and technology has progressed to the point that it is now possible to design materials bottom up, starting from the desired characteristics to create a material with the atomic and structural composition to deliver them. There are already several “smart” materials that have been created through design and the …

A toaster size atomic clock has been launched few days ago by NASA to undergo a series of tests in orbit. It was tested for over a year on the ground and it proved able to remain within the specification of maximum drift of 1 nanosecond in 10 days (a …