As the global community strives to achieve the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030, sustainable shipping emerges as a critical area of focus. To support the industry’s transition…
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Feb 19 (Reuters) – Russia sank a damaged space cargo ship in the Pacific Ocean after it undocked from the International Space Station, Interfax news service reported on Sunday, citing the Roscosmos…
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by John Konrad (gCaptain) As China’s lockdown lifts and the world looks to the future with hope that this marks the final chapter of the worst pandemic since the Great…
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NASA–The Orion spacecraft has been secured in the well deck of the USS Portland. The ship will soon begin its trip back to U.S. Naval Base San Diego, where engineers will remove Orion from the ship in preparation…
https://gcaptain.com/artemis-i-update-orion-secured-inside-uss-portland-ahead-of-return-to-shore/
NASA has confirmed the discovery of a large piece of wreckage from the space shuttle Challenger which exploded shortly after liftoff in 1986. The “artifact”, reported to be about 20-feet…
https://gcaptain.com/documentary-team-discovers-space-shuttle-challenger-wreckage-off-florida/
NASA—NASA’s SpaceX Crew-4 astronauts aboard the Dragon spacecraft safely splashed down Friday off the coast of Jacksonville, Florida, completing the agency’s fourth commercial crew mission to the International Space Station. The international…
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NASA has been carrying out many missions throughout history. Astronauts, when hundreds of kilometers from Earth, must carry a series of very important restrictions in terms of diet, among which it is worth noting the non-intake of alcohol. And no, it is not because drunken events have occurred in the past that could tarnish the reputation of the US body. In fact, experiments with alcohol and derivatives have been carried out, but not to be able to drink the drink on the International Space...
https://mfame.guru/how-much-alcohol-does-nasa-allow-in-space/
A Chinese nuclear reactor for providing power and propulsion in outer space has passed a comprehensive performance evaluation, according to reports. The reactor was designed by the Chinese Academy of Sciences and can generate one megawatt of electricity for spacecraft power supply and propulsion, reports Space News.
EvaluationThe project passed a comprehensive performance evaluation by China’s Ministry of Science and Technology Aug. 25, according to Science and Technology Daily and other Chinese...
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A team of engineers who developed robots at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston have decided to apply their expertise to designing a shape-changing submersible robot that promises to dramatically cut costs for a host of maritime industries, reports gCaptain.
Space Vs Deep Sea“What NASA really taught us to do is to put together robust software autonomy with a capable hardware morphology and deploy it in a remote setting,” said Nic Radford, founder, chairman, president, and CEO of Houston-based...
Hankamer, Texas-based bulk chemical transporter Anahuac Transport Inc. has been fined $275,000 for supplying the Johnson Space Center in Houston with “potentially tainted rocket fuel.” Anahuac must also forfeit the $251,401 in gross proceeds it obtained during the fraud scheme and serve three years of probation.
Anahuac will be banned from federal government contracting for three years.
From 2012 to 2020, Anahuac was subcontracted by NASA and the Department of Defense to transport rocket fuel...