On June 7th, NASA’s Juno spacecraft will make a close approach to the gas giant’s huge moon, flying within 645 miles of Ganymede. Launched August 5th, 2011, the spacecraft was the second spacecraft in the New Frontiers program and was sent to Jupiter to find…
Read More NASA’s Juno Spacecraft Checks Out Jupiter’s Moon Ganymede
On June 2nd, NASA unveiled two new missions to return to Venus. NASA’s last mission was Magellan, an orbiter launched in 1989 which deorbited in 1994 and successfully mapped the entire Venusian surface, including its volcanoes, craters, and domes. These two missions are part of…
Read More NASA Details Two Missions To Venus
After a 200 million mile journey for over two years, the OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft, which launched in September of 2016, has retrieved its sample and is finally on its way back home. The mission, focused on the asteroid Bennu, was sent to collect at least 2…
Read More OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft Is On Its Way Home From Asteroid Bennu
Ever since Fortnite was kicked off Apple’s store for purposefully bypassing Apple’s payment systems in place for them to gain commission through sales on their store, Epic Games has been less than happy. Instead of utilizing the in-app purchasing system that is required to sell…
Read More Apple And Epic Games Take Their Fight To Court
NASA made history on Monday morning as their Ingenuity helicopter, designed and assembled at the Jet Propulsion Lab in Southern California, maintained a powered, controlled flight for 30 seconds. Data, including visual evidence, was received from the Perseverance rover around 7 am EDT. This has…
Read More Mars Helicopter Ingenuity Has Successful First Flight
After its amazing landing on February 18th, NASA’s Perseverance rover on Mars may seem like it has been doing nothing since, but it’s been conducting tests and preparing for what it does better than any Mars rover before it: moving. It recently took its first…
Read More Mars Rover Perseverance Is On The Move
The rubber-band effect of Covid-19’s tech craze is hitting back hard this year. Extensive consumer purchasing of laptops and other home-based electronics has struck the industry in such a way that has left it short of an essential component for all modern electronics: microchips. Sony…
Read More Microchip Shortage Ravages Tech Industry, Stalls Tesla
NASA’s Artemis program has some big shoes to fill. The program, named after the Greek goddess that represents the Moon, is planning on landing humans there by 2024. The Moon’s first woman and next man will land there, with more technology than ever before, and…
Read More The Artemis Program – Sending Man Back to the Moon
With NASA’s rover Perseverance, there’s been a lot of firsts. It was the first rover to accurately live-map the Martian surface to survey a suitable touchdown spot. It’s the first rover to include an attached drone that will assist in studying flight characteristics on Mars.…
Read More Amazing Video Footage of Perseverance Landing on Mars
After traveling 292.5 million miles over 200 days in its trip from Earth to Mars, the NASA rover Perseverance has survived the unguided “seven minutes of terror,” it has finally arrived at its new home, and we all look forward to what’s next for this…
Read More Perseverance Has LANDED! NASA’s Latest Rover is Now on Mars