Broad Brained

04/03/2022

https://broadbrained.com/robotics/has-quantum-mechanics-proved-that-reality-does-not-exist-video/

One of the latest interpretations of the principles of quantum mechanics leads to an assumption that objective reality does not (or may not) exist. Reality – artistic interpretation. Image credit: Harri Vick via Pixabay, free license Many experiments with sub-atomic particles and electromagnetic w...

01/03/2022

https://broadbrained.com/space/nasa-and-herox-are-crowdsourcing-the-search-for-life-on-mars/

For almost sixty years, robotic missions have been exploring the surface of Mars in search of potential evidence of life. More robotic missions will join in this search in the next fifteen years, the first sample return from Mars (courtesy of the Perseverance rover) will arrive here at Earth, and cr...

17/02/2022

https://broadbrained.com/space/space-hub/

News about innovations in the space industry appears almost every day. Although most of them are born in the United States, a country with a high level of technology and access to resources, Ukrainian engineers also try to keep up. In November 2021, the Space Hub incubator team led by Maxim Tkachenk...

17/02/2022

https://broadbrained.com/space/astra-flying-down-more-than-up/

Achievements in the space industry are inconsistent, and Astra company proves this statement. Just three months ago, Astra became the first company to launch a rocket into orbit in less than five years. However, at the beginning of February, the value of its stocks fell 2.5 times from its peak in No...

15/02/2022

https://broadbrained.com/space/astronomers-finally-find-a-second-asteroid-in-earths-trojan-belt/

Earth has a new companion. Asteroid 2020 XL5, a newly discovered kilometer-wide carbonaceous space rock, has been discovered at Earth’s L4 Lagrange point – a place where the gravitational forces of Earth and the Sun balance out, creating a stable point in which objects can become trapped. A new ...

10/02/2022

https://broadbrained.com/space/finally-a-practical-use-for-space-based-power-beaming-sending-power-to-satellites-in-shade/

Power beaming is one of those technologies that can completely change the world. Almost unlimited power wherever it is needed, whenever it’s needed, is literally a technology straight out of science fiction. Researchers have been working on the technology for decades at this point, but there has b...

08/02/2022

https://broadbrained.com/space/spacex-launches-classified-nro-satellite-from-vandenberg-space-force-base/

A Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from the SLC-4E launch site at Vandenberg Space Force Base to begin the NROL-87 mission for the National Reconnaissance Office. Credit: Brian Sandoval / Spaceflight Now SpaceX hauled a classified payload into orbit for the U.S. government’s spy satellite agency Wednesda...

03/02/2022

https://broadbrained.com/space/atlas-5-rocket-delivers-two-military-inspector-satellites-to-high-altitude-orbit/

An Atlas 5 rocket, boosted by an RD-180 main engine and one strap-on solid rocket motor, lifts off from pad 41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station with a pair of U.S. Space Force tracking satellites. Credit: Alex Polimeni / Spaceflight Now Two satellites for a once-classified U.S. military program...

01/02/2022

https://broadbrained.com/space/missing-mass-not-on-our-watch-dr-paul-sutter-explains-dark-matter/

Do you have a few minutes to spare and a thirst for knowledge about one of the greater mysteries of the Universe? Then head on over to ArsTechnica and check out the new series they’re releasing titled Edge of Knowledge, starring none other than Dr. Paul Sutter. In what promises to be an enlighteni...

27/01/2022

https://broadbrained.com/space-robotics/remember-when-life-was-found-in-a-martian-meteorite-turns-out-it-was-just-geology/

The Alan Hills meteorite is a part of history to Mars aficionados. It came from Mars and meteorite hunters discovered in Antarctica in 1984. Scientists think it’s one of the oldest chunks of rock to come from Mars and make it to Earth. The meteorite made headlines in 1996 when a team of researcher...

25/01/2022

https://broadbrained.com/space-robotics/first-chinese-space-mission-of-2022-rockets-into-orbit/

A Chinese Long March 2D rocket lifts off with the Shiyan 13 satellite. Credit: CASC China launched a Long March 2D rocket Monday with another classified satellite, deploying the spacecraft into a polar orbit on the first of more than 40 Chinese Long March rocket missions planned in 2022. The Long Ma...

20/01/2022

https://broadbrained.com/space-robotics/the-surface-of-the-moon-is-electrically-charged-which-could-allow-a-hovering-robot-to-explore-it/