Watch Northrop Grumman’s 1st ‘Cygnus XL’ cargo spacecraft leave the space station on March 12

The first mission of Northrop Grumman’s big new cargo spacecraft is nearly over. Article continues below Northrop Grumman’s first Cygnus XL cargo craft is pictured installed to the Unity module’s Earth-facing port as the International Space Station orbited 262 miles (422 kilometers) above the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of South Africa. (Image credit: NASA)Continue Reading

Could NASA use expandable habitats for its Artemis moon bases? These two companies are betting millions

Artist’s illustration of a Max Space expandable habitat on the moon. (Image credit: Max Space) Commercial space infrastructure firm Voyager Technologies is backing lunar habitat developer Max Space with a new multi-million-dollar investment aimed at accelerating development of expandable modules for future missions to the moon. The companies say the partnership will help move expandableContinue Reading

ctrl-alt-speech:-writing-some-wrongs

Ctrl-Alt-Speech is a weekly podcast about the latest news in online speech, from Mike Masnick and Everything in Moderation‘s Ben Whitelaw. Subscribe now on Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify, Pocket Casts, YouTube, or your podcast app of choice — or go straight to the RSS feed. In this week’s round-up ofContinue Reading

Lisuan Extreme LX 7G106

Lisuan Technology is a Chinese company that was founded just 5 years ago in Shanghai by three former employees from the pioneering S3 Graphics GPU maker popular in the 1990s. With heavy investments from Chinese private and state companies, Lisuan Tech started developing GPUs that could provide alternative solutions to Nvidia and AMD for theContinue Reading