A helicopter’s rotor design may allow for vertical takeoffs but that comes at a price — the backwards moving blade counteracts the helicopter’s forward momentum, causing it to stall at high speeds. But one German firm believes that outfitting the blades with bumps inspired by the fins of humpback whales. More »
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Fifty-five years after Albert Einstein’s death, physicists will be testing something he scribed in his theory of general relativity report. Three spacecraft flying 4.8 million kilometres apart will fire lasers at each other, overseen by Nasa and the European Space Agency. More »
Check out the video of the completely successful – and awesome – Orion Launch Abort System test. Hey NASA, next time you conduct one of these tests, give me a call. I’ll sign any papers you want, but I want this ride: More »
Following the trail of SpaceShipTwo, Dassault has been working on a new suborbital civilian spacecraft. Not to be confused with the Future High-Altitude High-Speed Transport 20XX, the new aircraft could be an 11-ton vehicle derived from their VEHRA satellite launcher. More »
