WASHINGTON — A NASA spacecraft is on course to deliberately collide with a small asteroid Sept. 26 to test how that technique could be used to deflect a potentially hazardous asteroid. The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft, launched last November, is on a trajectory to collide with Dimorphos, a small asteroid orbiting the larger … Read more
AENA reports 141 cancellations and 17 diversions at six airports until midday on Sunday The abundant rains and the lack of visibility have affected a total of 158 flights at six airports in the Canary Islands until noon this Sunday, reports AENA, in the third update that has been made of the operation in the … Read more
Study results show inter-brain synchronization during online gaming. If there is empathy and cooperation, inter-brain synchronization is activated. The subjects were tested by placing them in two separate soundproof rooms. Researchers at the University of Helsinki have demonstrated that the brains of participants synchronize while playing online games, even when the participants are not physically … Read more
“HACM will provide our commanders with tactical flexibility to employ fighters to hold high-value, time-sensitive targets at risk while maintaining bombers for other strategic targets.” The Southern Cross Integrated Flight Research Experiment (SCIFiRE), a joint U.S. and Australian research, helped design the first-of-its-kind missile. The U.S. Air Force placed a strong emphasis on enhancing interoperability … Read more
The target asteroid is called Dimorphos, a body 163 metres in diameter that’s orbiting a 780 metre-wide asteroid called Didymos. This ‘binary asteroid system’ was chosen because Dimorphos is in orbit around Didymos, which makes it easier to measure the result of the impact due to the resulting change in its orbit. However, the Dimorphos … Read more
I’m a professor of astronomy who studies galactic cores, distant galaxies, astrobiology, and exoplanets. I closely follow the search for planets that might host life. Earth is still the only place in the universe scientists know to be home to life. It would seem logical to focus the search for life on Earth clones – … Read more
NROL-91 was the Delta 4’s 10th mission for the National Reconnaissance Office WASHINGTON — United Launch Alliance launched a classified National Reconnaissance Office spy satellite on a Delta 4 Heavy rocket September 24 at 3:25 p.m. Pacific from Space Launch Complex-6 at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. NROL-91 is the Delta 4’s final mission from … Read more
Detur announces that operations will be stopped for the rest of 2022 The much-criticised travel company Detur is cancelling all its operations for 2022. The company justifies the decision by saying that a “restart” is needed. In Sundsvall, a bus with 50 people has to return home since Detur cancelled their flight. And travellers who … Read more
Tropical storm ‘Hermine’, which is already affecting the Canary Islands, has caused 23 flight cancellations and 14 diversions this Saturday afternoon, all of them at airports in the province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife. This has been reported by Aena, which adds that in Tenerife North-Ciudad de La Laguna there have been 12 diversions to … Read more
Cathay Pacific welcomes the Hong Kong SAR Government’s latest measures to facilitate travel to Hong Kong, especially the decision to remove the hotel quarantine arrangement for passengers arriving in Hong Kong effective 26 September 2022. These adjustments will help boost sentiment for travel, thereby facilitating the gradual resumption of travel activities and strengthening network connectivity … Read more