NASA puts an Astrobee to work sweeping the ISS. Yep, floating cube good at taking pics and hanging around…
NASA has conjured imaginings of an orbital Roomba after boasting of a “sweep” of the ISS interior by an Astrobee robot as hardworking 'nauts keep the outpost up and running.
Sadly, the “sweep” in question was merely a potter around the interior of the aging space station for inspection and documentation purposes while NASA’s Chris Cassidy and Russian Cosmonauts Anatoly Ivanishin and Ivan Vagner beavered away at keeping things operational.
Astroboffins reckon evidence of Martian life has probably been destroyed where liquid acid flowed on the Red Planet
Evidence of ancient microbial life in Martian soil will not be easy to find, and some of it may have been destroyed by the flow of liquid acid, according to research published in Scientific Reports.
Now down to four functioning instruments, Voyager 1 is expected to reach the Oort cloud in approximately 300 years. It fired up its trajectory correction thrusters for the first time in decades in 2017 to keep its antenna pointed toward Earth, adding a few more years to its mission.
You and I certainly never will. Some distant descendant of ours, probably not recognizable as a modern-day human, and very likely blurring the lines between a machine and a living being, though? Entirely possible.
Space. The final frontier. These are the voyages of ‘Advanced Night Repair’ skin cream helping NASA to commercialise space
Space. The final frontier. These are the voyages of “Advanced Night Repair” skin serum and the suitable-for-zero-G “CosmoSkin” cosmetics-in-space project.
No, The Register has not set its calendars to April 1st – this stuff is real.
Cosmetics house Estée Lauder last Friday announced that “the brand’s iconic Advanced Night Repair Synchronized Multi-Recovery Complex will launch into space” by hitching a ride on the next resupply mission to the international space station.
The face-saving goop, which Amazon stocks at $186 for 100 millilitres certainly sounds worthy of a trip to the ISS, given that Estée Lauder says it has recently been infused with “Chronolux™ Power Signal Technology”.
