The future giant SpaceX rocket starship – which the company hopes will go on its way to a Mars mission – crashed in a fiery explosion during a test launch off the coast of Texas on Wednesday. But the company line was very excited because the live stream of the …
Read More »
On Tuesday, September 29, the Russian State Space Corporation (Roscosmos) announced that astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) had found the source of a suspicious leak. The crew of the expedition – NASA astronaut and commander Chris Cassidy and Russian cosmonauts Anatoly Ivanishin and Evan Wagner – had been …
Read More »
We have developed four-winged bird-shaped robots, called ornithopters, that can take off and fly with the agility of the speedy, hummingbirds, and insects. We did this by reverse engineering the aerodynamics and biomechanics of these creatures. Our ornithopters have the potential to outperform and exceed existing drone configurations with static …
Read More »
A new study on the flight characteristics of condors, the largest flying birds on Earth, discover that they rarely flap their wings once in midair. Condors are capable of flying for over a hundred miles without flapping their wings once. This incredibly efficient flying skill was honed over countless generations. …
Read More »
Andean condors are the heaviest flying bird in the world, with a single individual weighing up to about 16 kilos (or 35 pounds). According to new research, when it comes to keeping these heavy bodies up high, the sky is the limit, it seems. Taking off from the ground is …
Read More »