Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft has been docked with the International Space Station (ISS) for nearly a month, with NASA and its commercial partner repeatedly delaying the crew’s departure aboard the capsule. Despite indefinitely postponing Starliner’s return flight, NASA and Boeing insist that the spacecraft is fully operational, can return to Earth at any time, and that … Read more
Earlier this year the The peace of a Florida neighborhood was disturbed when a piece of junk from the international space station crashed through a house. This was followed in May by a 90-pound piece of a SpaceX Dragon ship crashing into a camping resort in North Carolina, raising the question: are space agencies doing … Read more
Thousands of satellites are currently in low Earth orbit, and some will eventually become defunct and fall back into our planet’s atmosphere. When they reenter the atmosphere, satellites leave behind a trail of chemicals that eat away at the ozone layer. A new study warns that the growing number of internet satellites have contributed to … Read more
TRAVEL chaos has hit Birmingham Airport again, with thousands of passengers stuck in security queues. Holidaymakers have faced long waits at West Midlands airport since the government made a last-minute switch to hand sanitiser, telling airports to reinstate the 100ml limit. Passengers were again confronted with chaos at Birmingham airport this morningCredit: BPMmedia Airport anarchy … Read more
Passengers at Birmingham Airport this morning have spoken of even longer security queues. One holidaymaker described the scenes as a ‘health and safety disaster’. The traveler estimated that there were more than 1,000 people waiting in line today, Thursday June 27, at 5:30 am. He had waited in line for an hour and still hadn’t … Read more
Hundreds of passengers were left stranded without their luggage on Sunday after a power outage at Manchester Airport, throwing travel plans into chaos. While some airlines cancelled their flights, others chose to keep holiday flights and today it emerged that many flights left without luggage. Since then, airlines have been trying to reunite the bags … Read more
Two NASA astronauts will not return from the International Space Station (ISS) for four days, the latest in a series of delays that have marred the Starliner program for years. Automation never tasted so good NASA and Boeing have postponed the Starliner spacecraft’s undocking for a second time, now targeting June 26 to return the … Read more
The grieving daughter of the French explorer who died on the doomed Titan submarine says she hasn’t heard from OceanGate in the year after the disaster. Sidonie Nargeolet’s 77-year-old father Paul-Henri Nergeolet – known as ‘Mr Titanic’ – was one of five people killed when a submarine catastrophically imploded during its journey to the wreck … Read more
Following a questionable docking at the International Space Station, Boeing managed to deliver a pair of NASA astronauts to the orbital laboratory last week. The stressful Starliner saga continues as the crew capsule develops more leaks in the service module. NASA is currently evaluating its ability to return the duo to Earth. Sonos’ very first … Read more
Microsoft Recall sounded like a really cool idea, but it quickly turned out to be a security disaster. Instead of helping you As it turns out, remembering everything you did on your Windows PC could easily help a hacker do the same. As much as the company bungled the implementation, I do think there’s mileage … Read more