An artist’s impression of Earth’s orbit around the sun. adventtr/Getty Images Scientists think the sun will become too hot for life to handle in the next billion years. An unexpected rescue mission could come in the form of a star ...
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GoodayfriendsWelcome back to Max Q! In this issue: Why space parachutes are so hard, a new lawsuit alleging safety issues at Blue Origin, news from Loft Orbital, Relativity Space and more © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use ...
SpaceX acquires parachute company for $2.2M – because it turns out space-rated parachutes are very hard
GoodayfriendsSpaceX is known for its vertical integration, but one component it’s been outsourcing is parachutes – until earlier this month, when the company quietly acquired parachute vendor Pioneer Aerospace after its parent company went bankrupt. The Information first reported the ...
Loft Orbital is launching ‘virtual missions’ for developers wanting access to space
GoodayfriendsSaaS – software-as-a-service – was the paradigmatic acronym for startups operating over the last decade. But if Loft Orbital has its way, SaaS will soon come to mean something very different: space infrastructure-as-a-service. The San Francisco-based startup has already made ...
James Webb Telescope captures colorful, glittering image of the chaotic center of the Milky Way galaxy, revealing never-before-seen details
GoodayfriendsNASA’s James Webb Space Telescope captured this photo of the center of the Milky Way galaxy. NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, and S. Crowe (University of Virginia) NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope captured a stunning image near the heart of the ...
Blackshark.ai’s Orca Huntr lets you build orbital intelligence models with a scribble
GoodayfriendsBlackshark.ai has already made a digital twin of the Earth, and its next play further democratizes the hitherto lofty (if you will) world of geospatial intelligence. Continuing the nautical theme, its Orca Huntr tool is an AI-powered tool for finding ...