June 2015
Preventing pilot spatial disorientation
... an engineer and inventor by trade so in the days following my “incident” I investigated solutions and put my inventor hat on. Seeing clearly I fly a Diamond DA-20-C1. A single engine 2 seat aircraft with excellent visibility and a great glide ratio...
January 2017
Mini space station for mice to study effects of reproduction in reduced gravity
... Dr Matthew Simon is the Habitation and Crew Systems Design Lead for NASA’s Human Spaceflight Architecture Team (HAT) supporting the Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate (HEOMD). He is responsible for leading multi-disciplinary, multi...
October 2018
Funding the space frontier – a moment that changed the Universe
... Adventures made the flight happen. Also not true. They did fly those after Tito and hats off to them for doing so. But they had little or nothing to do with this first flight. Within a few...
April 2019
Scanning the skies for exoplanets
... giant orbiting a host star (HD1397b), a gas giant whizzing around a cool dwarf star in just three days (HATS-71b), an inflated transiting Hot-Jupiter (HD2685 b) and a ‘hot Earth’ which takes a mere 11 hours to circle its...
09 January 2017
X-rays from a 'missing link' neutron star could shed light on magnetar mystery
... stars could be just different stages in the evolution of a single object. "This neutron star wears two different hats," said Walid Majid, astrophysicist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California. "Sometimes it's a pulsar. Sometimes...
14 September 2018
AI helps find new pulses from mysterious FRB source
...-1 system of exoplanets that was discovered last year are also being targeted. ATA, which is situated at the Hat Creek Observatory in California, is SETI’s dedicated instrument for scouring the skies to look for spurious radio signals...
