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Archive for February 11th, 2024

It’s good! Space station astronauts toss football in orbit for Super Bowl 2024 (video)

February 11th, 2024 by

Two NASA are gearing up for the big showdown between the Kansas City Chiefs and San Francisco 49ers by tossing the old pigskin around the International Space Station.

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How to watch SpaceX launch the private Intuitive Machines moon lander IM-1 on Feb. 14 live online

February 11th, 2024 by

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch a new private lunar lander to the moon for the company Intuitive Machines and NASA this week, and you can watch it live online in a series of free webcasts.

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World’s 1st fault-tolerant quantum computer launching this year ahead of a 10,000-qubit machine in 2026

February 11th, 2024 by

QuEra has harnessed the power of quantum entanglement to dramatically reduce the error rate in qubits — with the first such commercial quantum computer, made from 256 physical qubits and 10 logical qubits, tapping into this technology when it launches this year.

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Intuitive Machines moon lander to carry tiny NASA cameras to study lunar surface (video)

February 11th, 2024 by

Intuitive Machines’ Nova-C lunar lander is set to launch next week carrying a special set of ‘eyes’ to track how the spacecraft’s engine plume interacts with the lunar surface.

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The Milky Way’s black hole is shaping spacetime into a football

February 11th, 2024 by

As predicted by general relativity, the rapid spin of our galaxy’s 4.1-million-solar-mass black hole is able to warp the fabric of spacetime.

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