There’s a very high chance that Apple will release the iPhone 13 series according to the regular schedule this year. Unlike in 2020, Apple issued no delay warnings. This must mean the iPhone 13 is on track for a mid-September announcement. Preorders should follow on the first Friday after the keynote, and the iPhone 13 …
NASA’s OGO-1 satellite completed its deorbit over the weekend, meeting Earth’s atmosphere and disintegrating due to the intense friction. The satellite was launched in 1964 and spent over a half-century in space. The spacecraft was completely destroyed when it entered the atmosphere, and no pieces of it survived to make it to the ground. If …
NASA has crunched the data from satellite images to show the true extent of the damage to Beirut after an explosion rocked the city last week. By comparing before and after images, the system can detect where the most serious damage occurred. Maps like this help emergency responders direct resources to areas where survivors may …
NASA has a lot of high-tech hardware cruising around in space right now, but one of the space agency’s pint-sized exoplanet hunters appears to have gone dark. In a post by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the group explains that its ASTERIA satellite has been failing to return attempts to contact it for about a month …
NASA is sending humans back to the Moon, and they’re doing it on an abbreviated timetable, but in addition to getting boots on the lunar surface, the space agency wants to get an orbiting lunar space station up and running for the first time ever. The Gateway, which NASA says will serve as a jumping-off …
NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope has proven to be one of the most powerful tools in the agency’s arsenal for over a decade and a half, giving us gorgeous views of distant objects using the telescope’s ultra-sensitive infrared sensors. This week, the telescope celebrated its 16th year in space, and NASA wants to make the most …
Sending stuff into space isn’t easy. SpaceX has made the process of making satellite deliveries into Earth orbit look incredibly easy, but there are still a million things that can derail an otherwise routine mission, and the delayed launch of the AMOS-17 communications satellite by Spacecom is a great reminder of that. The mission was …
Military bodies around the world rely on surveillance satellites to help them keep an eye on potential enemies and allies alike. Everyone watches everyone, and you don’t usually hear about the launch of such satellites because they’re both common and not often bragged about by the governments launching them. The launch of a new Airbus-built …
A series of powerful earthquakes and aftershocks left much of Southern California trembling over the long holiday weekend. The most powerful of the quakes, a magnitude 7.1, struck on July 5th, and it shared its epicenter with a slightly less intense magnitude 6.4 quake from the day prior. Now, using a particularly powerful high-tech instrument …
Earlier this week, a total solar eclipse gave skywatchers in South America a very good reason to gaze at the heavens. Only a very small number of people were lucky enough to see it thanks to the path of the eclipse gracing just a small strip of Chile and Argentina, but that didn’t stop scientists …
