Shelby Talcott SpaceX CEO Elon Musk unveiled updates to SpaceX’s Starship design Saturday evening and discussed what still needs to be done to make his highly-anticipated idea a reality. Starship features a stainless steel outer body and is a prototype expected to launch during a test flight later in 2019. It is meant to carry…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Andrew Follett NASA rovers sent to explore other worlds could have several tiny origami-inspired robots tagging along. The Pop-Up Flat Folding Explorer Robot (PUFFER) is an origami-inspired robot capable of flattening itself out to squeeze into tight spots and climb a 45-degree slope. These robots can even survive long…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: by Micah J. Fleck Under the Trump administration, which rejects the concept of climate change as being real, the NASA budget is going to restructure the entity to turn its focus back toward space and away from Earth sciences. Los Angeles Times reports: NASA missions to the surface of Europa,…